This super book, including a masterful foreword by Sydney Brenner displaying his inimitable style, contains a remarkable series of essays from true thought leaders that begins with the origins of life, covers the evolution of species, and then tackles how cognition and culture evolved. This book ...
Life is a chemical reaction. Three major transitions in early evolution are considered without recourse to a tree of life. The origin of prokaryotes required a steady supply of energy and electrons, probably in the form of molecular hydrogen stemming fro
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And as we take the next step, then the next, we stop for a moment... and we see what a long way we have come. WIND: the mind, intelligence, communication, visualization, telepathy, psychic powers, inspiration, imagination, ide...
Labichea stellata, one of the intermediate forms, with tough, leathery, narrow leaves adapted to a hot, dry climate. Studying the morphology – the physical form – of a plant will tell you a lot about the challenges of the place it evolved and what it had to survive to make it to t...
This begins with a Bonsly with Rock Slide, and allowed players to experience battling with it long before the official release of Diamond and Pearl. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Upon completion of all the type-based mazes at the Dojo, Makuhita will award a statue of Bonsly that is displayed ...
sing to mark territory or attract mates. Even our early ancestors used gestures and grunts long before they articulated sentences. This universal foundation of symbolism underscores a deeper truth: cognition begins with the ability to represent, to encode the world into something that can be s...
A multi-step method that begins with life casts resulted in libraries of displacement maps that artists could draw from to produce skin textures for characters ranging from craggy Captain Haddock to youthful Tintin. The artists captured tree bark and other textures from the real ...
2.) “Stakeholder”used as “someone with a material interest in a (usually) political or ideological discussion”. This word is notper seoffensive, but is inevitably associated with wokeness, like “problematize” or “intersectional.” Particularly in science, it is used to argue (often withou...
with a sickle-shaped head, lateral head-neck attachment (tail attached to the side of the head, parallel to the base), and remnant centrioles. Centriole-independent embryonic development.b–eA summary of rodent evolution, depicting their phylogenetic tree (b), proximal centriolar structure (c)...
When Jane Goodall gives public talks, she often begins by giving a pant-hoot: a loud call that begins with soft hoos, followed by grunts, barks or screams, and often ends with grunts again. (Jane usually leaves out the screams, though, as she thinks those sound too aggressive.) Spectro...