Darwin S Wink

Author : Alison Anderson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466832572

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Darwin's Wink by Alison Anderson Pdf

"A love story, a war story, an ecological adventure, a biological poem, and a treatise on the fragility of life--Darwin's Wink has it all. The writing is so incantory that it almost floats off the page. In Fran, Alison Anderson has created a strong, flawed, and utterly believable heroine.... Like the elusive, bejeweled mourning bird it celebrates, this book will waken its readers to unexpected wonders. A beautiful book. I loved it." - Molly Giles, author of Iron Shoes The author of the critically acclaimed Amelia Earhart novel Hidden Latitudes offers a beautifully crafted story about two naturalists, both damaged by ghosts from the past, who find love as they work to save a rare bird species off the coast of Mauritius--and fend off a powerful townsman who is threatened by their presence.

Author : Paul Ekman
Publisher : ISHK
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781883536886

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Darwin and Facial Expression by Paul Ekman Pdf

In Darwin and Facial Expression, Paul Ekman and a cast of other notable scholars and scientists reconsider the central concepts and key sources of information in Darwin's work on emotional expression. First published in 1972 to celebrate the centennial of the publication of Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Darwin and Facial Expression is the first of three works edited by Dr. Ekman and others on the subject. This Malor edition contains new and updated references. Darwin claimed that we cannot understand human emotional expression without understanding the emotional expressions of animals, as our emotional expressions are in large part determined by our evolution. Not only are there similarities in the appearance of some emotional expressions between man and certain other animals, but the principles that explain why a particular emotional expression occurs with a particular emotion also apply across species.

Author : Peter R. Grant
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0691048665

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Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches by Peter R. Grant Pdf

This text looks at how much has been learnt about the Darwin's Finch since Darwin's initial observations. It shows how interspecific competition and natural selection produce observable and measurable evolutionary change.

Author : Venla Oikkonen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136200175

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Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Evolutionary Narratives by Venla Oikkonen Pdf

Since the early 1990s, evolutionary psychology has produced widely popular visions of modern men and women as driven by their prehistoric genes. In Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Evolutionary Narratives, Venla Oikkonen explores the rhetorical appeal of evolutionary psychology by viewing it as part of the Darwinian narrative tradition. Refusing to start from the position of dismissing evolutionary psychology as reactionary or scientifically invalid, the book examines evolutionary psychologists’ investments in such contested concepts as teleology and variation. The book traces the emergence of evolutionary psychological narratives of gender, sexuality and reproduction, encompassing: Charles Darwin’s understanding of transformation and sexual difference Edward O. Wilson’s evolutionary mythology and the evolution-creationism controversy Richard Dawkins’ molecular agency and new imaging technologies the connections between adultery, infertility and homosexuality in adaptationist thought. Through popular, literary and scientific texts, the book identifies both the imaginative potential and the structural weaknesses in evolutionary narratives, opening them up for feminist and queer revision. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the humanities and social sciences, particularly in gender studies, cultural studies, literature, sexualities, and science and technology studies.

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005080539

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Charles Darwin's Works: The expression of the emotions in man and animals by Charles Darwin Pdf

Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468307757

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The Limits of Vision by Robert Irwin Pdf

An obsessive-compulsive housewife teeters on the edge of madness in this “immensely intelligent and delightful . . . dance of a book” (The New York Times). The Limits of Vision is Robert Irwin’s irrepressibly entertaining and imaginative novel about a young housewife named Marcia and the war she wages against dirt. Set over the course of a single day as Marcia goes about her quotidian activities—having the girls over for coffee, tidying the house, making dinner—it becomes increasingly clear that her sanity is unraveling at an alarming rate. Irwin is at his creative best here, as he describes Marcia’s conversations with Mucor, the “mouthpiece for the Dirt, the Empire of Decay and Ruin, the Principle of Evil,” as well as such scientists and artists of the past as William Blake, Charles Dickens, Leonardo da Vinci, and Charles Darwin. “Binds together philosophy and mayhem . . . The Limits of Vision ranks as a genuine (and rare) work of the imagination.” —Jeanette Winterson, New York Times–bestselling author “Unique, a ravishing product of pure imagination.” —Ruth Rendell, The New York Times–bestselling author “[An] astonishing work of imagination and erudition by a former professor of medieval history.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Paul H. Barrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : UOM:39015013513976

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A Concordance to Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Paul H. Barrett Pdf

Author : John van Wyhe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139479011

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Charles Darwin's Shorter Publications, 1829–1883 by John van Wyhe Pdf

Charles Darwin's words first appeared in print as a student at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1829, and in almost every subsequent year of his life he published essays, articles, letters to editors, or other brief works. These shorter publications contain a wealth of valuable material. They represent an important part of the Darwin visible to the Victorian public, alongside his ever present sense of humour, and reveal an even wider variety of his scientific interests and abilities, which continued to his final days. This book brings together all known shorter publications and printed items Darwin wrote during his lifetime, including his first and his last publications, and the first publication, with A. R. Wallace, of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. With over seventy newly discovered items, the book is fully edited and annotated, and contains original illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography.

Author : Wink Travel Wink Travel Guide
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1694743160

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Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) - Wink Travel Guide by Wink Travel Wink Travel Guide Pdf

The Galápagos archipelago is world-renowned for its unique and fearless wildlife, much of which was inspiration for Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. The islands are therefore very popular amongst natural historians, both professional and amateur. The landscape of the islands is relatively barren and volcanic, but beautiful nonetheless. Wink Travel Guides introduce you to the best world travel destinations, in a clear and concise way, illustrated by photos.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Wit and humor
ISBN : UCAL:C2563598

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The Harvard Lampoon by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philip Kitcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199724997

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Living with Darwin by Philip Kitcher Pdf

Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin, Philip Kitcher stokes the flames swirling around Darwin's theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design, and revealing why evolution has been the object of such vehement attack. Kitcher first provides valuable perspective on the present controversy, describing the many puzzles that blocked evolution's acceptance in the early years, and explaining how scientific research eventually found the answers to these conundrums. Interestingly, Kitcher shows that many of these early questions have been resurrected in recent years by proponents of Intelligent Design. In fact, Darwin himself considered the issue of intelligent design, and amassed a mountain of evidence that effectively refuted the idea. Kitcher argues that the problem with Intelligent Design isn't that it's "not science," as many critics say, but that it's "dead science," raising questions long resolved by scientists. But Kitcher points out that it is also important to recognize the cost of Darwin's success--the price of "life with Darwin." Darwinism has a profound effect on our understanding of our place in the universe, on our religious beliefs and aspirations. It is in truth the focal point of a larger clash between religious faith and modern science. Unless we can resolve this larger issue, the war over evolution will go on.

Author : D.M. Hassler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1973-07-31
Category : Humor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035477657

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The Comedian as the Letter D: Erasmus Darwin’s Comic Materialism by D.M. Hassler Pdf

The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" Wallace Stevens said somewhere that the theory of poetry is the life of poetry.l Charles Darwin, who likes poetry, "recognized that at the eost of losing his appreciation of poetry and other things that delighted him in his youth, his mind had become a 'machine for grinding generallaws out of large colleetions of facts.' "2 Somewhere in between the polar positions of Stevens' extreme aesthetic belief and Darwin's extreme meehanistic belief lies the aesthetics of empirical thought and the whole modem Romantic tradition. There have been men in between who were both meehanists and poets, who both beIieved in automatic material meehanisms and tried to use the imagination. Erasmus Darwin was one of these "in between" figures. and since he lived early (1731-1802) in the modem scientific era he was one of the first. This older Darwin, the grandfather of Charles, has not been given due credit as a transitional figure in the development of the literature of our scientific era. Although historically and in terms of intelleetual stature the grandfather was a fanciful child compared to the giant grand soo, Erasmus Darwin's habits of thought anticipated one of the most distinguishing charaeteristics of his grandson. (The genetic suggestive.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005481994

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Punch by Anonim Pdf

Author : John R. Morss
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0863771297

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The Biologising of Childhood by John R. Morss Pdf

Author : Peterson's
Publisher : Peterson's
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780768936810

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Master the GRE 2013 by Peterson's Pdf

The new version of the GRE General Test is designed to better predict your overall performance in grad school, and Peterson's Master the GRE is your one-stop guidebook for preparing for the revised test. This book is organized into seven parts that include basic information about the test, a diagnostic and three practice tests, and detailed test prep for the Analytical Writing, Verbal Reasoning, and Quantitative Reasoning sections of the GRE. You will find numerous test-taking tips and tricks, a score of practice questions with detailed answer explanations, strategies for every type of question, and a point-by-point summary of each review chapter, all designed to help you score high on the actual exam.