The front cover artwork was provided by Steven Benner (Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution) and Lucy Kwok (Earth Life Science Institute at Tokyo Institute of Technology). The image shows a path﹉ypothesis to make prebiotic RNA, via mineralゞuided maturation of carbonyl species and base ...
When spring rolls around and the eggs hatch,small nymphsemerge. Katydids spend three to four months as nymphs. They look much like adult katydids but don't have wings. The nymphs molt as they grow, which means they shed their hard, outer shells multiple times before becoming adults, complete...
including drastic drops in temperatures. While these colder periods proved fatal for many dinosaurs, crocodiles had the adaptive ability to enter a state of dormancy during cold spells. Finding refuge in safe hideouts, they would simply re-emerge once the conditions became more favorable. This phys...
While our ancestors have been around for about six million years, the modern form of humans only evolvedabout 200,000 years ago. Civilization as we know it is only about 6,000 years old, and industrialization started in the earnest only in the 1800s. How many years ago did humans first ...
When did you get married?... 你什么时候结的婚? 柯林斯高阶英语词典 When eating a whole cooked fish, you should never turn it over to get at the flesh on the other side... 吃一整条鱼时,切忌把它翻过来去吃另一面的肉。 柯林斯高阶英语词典 Mustard is grown in the field when weeds are...
and the petiole by which the leaf is attached to its branch. In the angle formed by the petiole and the branch, called theaxil, is a bud from which a fresh leaf will emerge next spring. We paid special attention to axillary buds in the previous post. Today we will focus on the leaf...
(2012) allocated bodily experiences and doings before knowing. He was critical to Cartesian dualism and did not believe it was possible to overcome corporal consciousness, since humans are essentially embodied and social, according to him. Their consciousness is strongly entangled with their bodies as...
Did you think you had the data to show it was safe? COMMISSION MEMBER GENERAL DONALD KUTYNA: If this were an airplane and I just had a two-hour argument with Boeing on whether the wing was going to fall off or not, I think I would tell the pilot, at least mention it . . . ...
[ Sally Hayden: Climate change is human made, but not all humans have played same role in itOpens in new window ] Carbon molecules, however, know nothing of electoral politics or national sovereignty. The most heavily armed and gruesomely policed borders on Earth ...
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