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| Author | : Stephen Jay Gould |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2010-11-29 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 039334083X |
"Gould is a natural writer; he has something to say and the inclination and skill with which to say it." —P. B. Medawar, New York Review of Books With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical acclaim. The Panda's Thumb will introduce a new generation of readers to this unique writer, who has taken the art of the scientific essay to new heights. Were dinosaurs really dumber than lizards? Why, after all, are roughly the same number of men and women born into the world? What led the famous Dr. Down to his theory of mongolism, and its racist residue? What do the panda's magical "thumb" and the sea turtle's perilous migration tell us about imperfections that prove the evolutionary rule? The wonders and mysteries of evolutionary biology are elegantly explored in these and other essays by the celebrated natural history writer Stephen Jay Gould.
| Author | : Jonathan Wells |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2006-08-21 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 159698614X |
Darwin is an emperor who has no clothes— but it takes a brave man to say so. Jonathan Wells, a microbiologist with two Ph.D.s (from Berkeley and Yale), is that brave man. Most textbooks on evolution are written by Darwinists with an ideological ax to grind. Brave dissidents—qualified scientists—who try to teach or write about intelligent design are silenced and sent to the academic gulag. But fear not: Jonathan Wells is a liberator. He unmasks the truth about Darwinism— why it is wrong and what the real evidence is. He also supplies a revealing list of "Books You’re Not Supposed to Read" (as far as the Darwinists are concerned) and puts at your fingertips all the evidence you need to challenge the most closed-minded Darwinist.
| Author | : National Research Council |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 457 |
| Release | : 1993-02-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0309048338 |
As technological developments multiply around the globeâ€"even as the patenting of human genes comes under serious discussionâ€"nations, companies, and researchers find themselves in conflict over intellectual property rights (IPRs). Now, an international group of experts presents the first multidisciplinary look at IPRs in an age of explosive growth in science and technology. This thought-provoking volume offers an update on current international IPR negotiations and includes case studies on software, computer chips, optoelectronics, and biotechnologyâ€"areas characterized by high development cost and easy reproducibility. The volume covers these and other issues: Modern economic theory as a basis for approaching international IPRs. U.S. intellectual property practices versus those in Japan, India, the European Community, and the developing and newly industrializing countries. Trends in science and technology and how they affect IPRs. Pros and cons of a uniform international IPRs regime versus a system reflecting national differences.
| Author | : Stephen C. Meyer |
| Publisher | : Zondervan |
| Total Pages | : 628 |
| Release | : 2009-06-23 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0061472786 |
"This book attempts to make a comprehensive, interdisciplinary case for a new view of the origin of life"--Prologue.
| Author | : Henry Nicholls |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2012-06-01 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1605987581 |
Learn how the extraordinary impact of the panda—from obscurity to fame—is also the story of China’s transition from shy beginnings to center stage. Giant pandas have been causing a stir ever since their formal scientific discovery just over 140 years ago. Yet in spite of humankind’s evident obsession with the giant panda, it is only in the last few decades that scientific research has begun to show us what this mysterious, frequently misunderstood creature is really like. Henry Nicholls uses the rich and curious history of the giant panda to do several things: to ponder our changing attitudes toward the natural world; to offer a compelling history of the conservation movement; and to chart the rise of modern China on its journey to become the self-sufficient, twenty-first-century superpower it is today.
| Author | : P. William Davis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Pandas |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : R. Weikart |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2016-09-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1137109866 |
In this work, Richard Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. He demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially the view that human life is sacred. Many of these thinkers supported moral relativism, yet simultaneously exalted evolutionary 'fitness' (especially intelligence and health) to the highest arbiter of morality. Darwinism played a key role in the rise not only of eugenics, but also euthanasia, infanticide, abortion and racial extermination. This was especially important in Germany, since Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles, not on nihilism.
| Author | : Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu |
| Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1583227849 |
THE book on how we came to be what we are. Unprecedented in its appraoch, teh number and diversity of the species presented and the quality and diversity of its photographs, this is spectacular,elegant, mysterious, grotesque. Skeletons of the vertebrates that inhabit the earth today carry with them the imprint of an evolutionary process that has lasted several billion years. A dual approach, scientific and aesthetic, combines stunning photographs of whole or part skeletons with a short text that illuminates chosen themes of evolution.
| Author | : Stephen Jay Gould |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 548 |
| Release | : 2010-11-29 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0393340821 |
"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review
| Author | : Philip J. Senter |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2019-03-14 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1527531384 |
A dinosaur book like no other, this irreverent chronicle of science and pseudoscience takes the reader on a journey through numerous bizarre ideas about ancient reptiles. Were dragon legends inspired by human encounters with fire-breathing dinosaurs? Do the Bible and other ancient works of literature and art depict dinosaurs? Astoundingly, those and other strange notions have infiltrated grade-school science textbooks. This exposé unmasks the errors that underlie such notions and reveals the science that flattens them, while treating readers to explanations of rocket fuel, nuclear power plants, the electric eel’s shocking capabilities, and how the young-Earth creationist position contradicts the very scripture that it strives to uphold. Finding humor in absurdity, the book shows fans of science, religious studies, folklore, and fire that young-Earth creationist dinosaur pseudoscience is deeply comic once one gets to know it properly.
