Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes have coexisted for hundreds of millennia and share more than 98 percent of their genetic material, yet only 40 years ago we still knew next to nothing about chimpanzee behavior in the wild. That began to change in the 1960s, when Toshisada Nishida of Kyoto ...
"The cliffs are vulnerable to this, undercutting from the wave action," saidMerrifieldof the Scripps Center. TheScripps Institution of Oceanographyat UC San Diego is a global leader in climate science. They've been measuring rising sea levels for decades. ...
Gold had brief periods of huge gains in recent decades, but there were also long stretches when it was outperformed by U.S. stocks. For example, anyone who invested in gold in 2011, instead of putting money in stocks, would have gotten crushed over most of the following 10 years as U....
The first period of the Han Dynasty is called the Westen Period, which lasted until 9 AD. At this time, Wang Mang successfully led a revolt against the Han, which lasted 15 years (9 AD - 24 AD). In 25 AD, the Han were able to take back their power. This period is called the ...
We know a lot more nowadays about animal suffering than the Stoics did two millennia ago. Moreover, we have developed truly horrific standardized practices for the treatment of animals in quantities that the Stoics could not have imagined. Just to give you an idea, these are the USDA ...
This chapter covers emerging zoonotic diseases, with a focus on the current understanding of how and where zoonotic pathogens circulate, their pathways to emergence, potential for sustained human-to-human transmission, and gaps in our knowledge. The first cluster of infections among people may be re...
When faced with a spewing volcano, people today share many of the same feelings volcano-observers have had throughout human history: We are in awe of the destructive power of nature, and we are unsettled by the thought that a peaceful mountain can suddenly become an unstoppable destructive ...
When faced with a spewing volcano, people today share many of the same feelings volcano-observers have had throughout human history: We are in awe of the destructive power of nature, and we are unsettled by the thought that a peaceful mountain can suddenly become an unstoppable destructive ...
decades. In this part, we will catch up with the timeline somewhere between the eighties and the nineties and traverse towards a new millennium. Software development as an engineering discipline has changed a lot over this time as well. Several key phenomena fuelled those changes, and we are ...
As you head back into the main shopping district of downtown Naples, make sure you go through the Galleria Umberto I. This beautiful shopping arcade was finished in 1891 and was one of the key buildings in a decades-long plan to beautify Naples at the end of the 19thcentury. ...