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Get the Summary of Max Bennett's A Brief History of Intelligence in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Brief History of Intelligence" by Max Bennett explores the evolution of intelligence from the earliest bilaterally symmetrical animals to modern humans and artificial intelligence. The book discusses how simple organisms like nematodes exhibit complex behaviors with rudimentary brains, highlighting the significance...
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Get the Summary of Matt Ridley's Genome in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Genome" by Matt Ridley is a comprehensive exploration of the human genome, structured around the 23 pairs of human chromosomes. Ridley delves into the history of genetic discovery, from early speculations about the origins of life to the intricate dance of DNA and RNA that forms the basis of all living organisms. He discusses the discovery...
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Get the Summary of Kimberly Gallagher's Aphrodisiac in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Aphrodisiac" by Kimberly Gallagher is a comprehensive guide that intertwines the world of herbs with the exploration of sensuality and sexuality. Gallagher's journey began with her family's immersion in herbal studies, leading to the creation of LearningHerbs.com. Her ministry, Trail of Beauty, further deepened her connection...
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Get the Summary of Stefano Mancuso's The Revolutionary Genius of Plants in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Revolutionary Genius of Plants" by Stefano Mancuso presents a compelling argument for plant intelligence, demonstrating that plants possess the ability to remember, learn, and adapt without a centralized brain. Mancuso explores the concept of plant memory, citing experiments with Mimosa pudica that show...
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Get the Summary of Adele Brand's The Hidden World of the Fox in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Hidden World of the Fox" by Adele Brand is an exploration of the red fox's adaptation to the modern British landscape, examining their lives in both rural and urban settings. The book contrasts the idyllic existence of foxes in traditional British countryside with the challenges they face in areas undergoing urban...
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Get the Summary of Richard Dawkins's The Greatest Show on Earth in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Greatest Show on Earth" by Richard Dawkins is a comprehensive exposition of the evidence for evolution. Dawkins confronts the misconception that evolution is "just a theory," asserting that it is a fact supported by as much evidence as the Earth's roundness. He explains that scientific theories, or "theorums,"...
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This work, based on an earlier scholarly publication, offers an alternative paradigm to view life and its dynamic capacity for change. Rather than focusing on the end result of evolution with concepts such as resilience and fitness, it focuses on the actual process of change, in which life goes through a fragile period. Using plain-spoken language and based on an earlier scholarly work, it examines six biological domains which exhibit fragility and...
8) Tigers
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Tigers, majestic and powerful creatures, have long captured the imagination of people around the world. As the largest of the big cats, these iconic predators are characterized by their distinctive orange fur adorned with dark stripes, making them instantly recognizable. With a reputation for strength, agility, and an innate sense of grace, tigers have held a revered status in various cultures, symbolizing both awe-inspiring beauty and fearsome prowess....
9) Existence
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The eternal question of where did everything come from, the stars, Universe and life on Earth has traditionally been the domain of science and religion. But now design gets its chance.Starting from scratch, and through an unbridled, free thinking, design exercise, Hadleigh comes up with some fascinating design solutions on how everything could come into existence all over again, completely by its own accord.If you are brave enough to join Timothy...
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This book provides an overview of the science of lactate in human performance and an innovative, yet simple to use, approach to the application of lactate in improving human performance. This book goes into great detail on the theories as well as numerous athlete case studies in several sports and their quest for peak performance using a physiology first methodology.
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What is form? What is content? You cannot understand what life and mind are unless you can answer these two fundamental questions of ontology. The secrets of existence are located in the related pairings of form and content, form and matter, mind and life, mind and matter, signifier and signified, quantity and quality, subject and object, interior and exterior, information carrier and information carried. This book provides the explanation of the...
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Memoirs of a Zoo Keeper Think you know what it's like to be a zoo keeper? Think again! Dive into the laugh-out-loud world of several different zoo keepers who navigate the unexpected chaos and heartwarming moments of their daily lives. Get ready for a wild ride through the wonders (and occasional mishaps) of the animal kingdom. But this book is more than just funny anecdotes. It's a window into the fascinating intelligence and social lives of zoo...
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"Engrossing … [An] expedition through the hidden and sometimes horrifying microbial domain." -Wall Street Journal
"Fascinating-and full of the kind of factoids you can't wait to share." -Scientific American
Parasites can live only inside another animal and, as Kathleen McAuliffe reveals, these tiny organisms have many evolutionary motives for manipulating the behavior of their hosts. With astonishing precision, parasites can coax rats...
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"Read this book and discover sex again, but from a scientific perspective, and see why it evolved. It's almost as much fun, and needs less energy."
- Peter Macinnis, author of 100 Discoveries: The Greatest Breakthroughs in History
"How Sex Works manages to inject science writing with the prurient thrill of a gossip rag."
-O magazine
Medical maverick and New York Times bestselling author of Survival of the Sickest Dr. Sharon Moalem presents...
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In this dazzling companion to the most important PBS television series this fall, award-winning journalist Carl Zimmer collaborates with leading scholars to tell the compelling story of the theory of evolution-from Darwin to 21st century science
Darwin's The Origin of Species was breathtaking-beautifully written, staunchly defended, defiantly radical. Yet it emerged long before modern genetics, molecular biology, and contemporary findings in paleontology.
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En el libro "El Enigma de la Evolución Humana", el autor Ary S. Jr. revela la parte interesante de nuestra historia evolutiva. Desde los primeros primates hasta el surgimiento del Homo Sapiens, somos llevados a desentrañar las transformaciones físicas, mentales y culturales que nos convirtieron en la especie dominante del planeta.
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Consciousness is discussed in scientific terms.
Conscious beings can change their own momentum and the momentum of other objects and beings.
Conscious beings are proposed to be the instigators of all forces.
Wherever forces exist, conscious beings exist.
Force, mass, and energy are all manifestations of the willful conscious behaviors of conscious beings.
Conscious beings exist in the nuclear, atomic-molecular, biological, and astronomical space-time...
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Este libro le ayudará a conocer la naturaleza y las funciones del cuerpo etérico, astral, mental y espiritual. Además, le mostrará una red de canales, los nadi, que transportan el prana -la energía vital- a través de las diversas estructuras sutiles. Los centros que reciben, transforman y emiten la energía sutil son los chakras, distribuidos por todo el cuerpo. Son casi noventa mil, pero los que cuentan son unos cuarenta, concentrados, sobre...
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The brain regulates the processes essential to life, gives rise to thoughts and feelings, and is at the very core of who we are. In Discovering the Brain, you will learn about its anatomy, functions, and processes and begin to uncover the mysteries that are being laid bare by modern neuroscience. You will learn about the brain's development over time, its use of the information presented by our senses, and the diseases and disorders that can prevent...
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"Take one man who rejects authority and religion, and leads a punk band. Take another man who wonders whether vertebrates arose in rivers or in the ocean….Put them together, what do you get? Greg Graffin, and this uniquely fascinating book." -Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel
Anarchy Evolution is a provocative look at the collision between religion and science, by an author with unique authority: UCLA lecturer in Paleontology, and...
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