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Microbial Nanobionics

Volume 2, Basic Research and Applications

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Serier serie Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
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The Butterfly Hunter

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af Dr Anthony Crawforth ...

This is the epic, true and long overdue story of the young explorer who put forward the first ever case for the creation of a new species, providing what Charles Darwin called the "beautiful proof" for Natural Selection.The major discovery of Batesian Mimicry was developed from Bates's fascinating 11-year journey and study of butterflies in the Amazon rainforest. He noted how certain animals adopt ... Læs mere

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Serier serie The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
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af Jack R. Kryder ...

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af Jeremy Taylor ...

Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes - chimpanzees closest of all. With the mapping of the human genome, and that of the chimp, a direct comparison of the differences between the two, letter by letter along the billions of As, Gs, Cs, and Ts of the DNA code, has led to the widely vaunted claim that we differ from chimps by a mere 1.6% of our genetic code. A ... Læs mere

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af Alberto A. Guglielmone, Richard G. Robbins, Dmitry A. Apanaskevich, Trevor N. Petney, Agustín Estrada-Peña, Ivan G. Horak ...

Serier serie Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
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Microbial Nanobionics

The Butterfly Hunter

تطور الإنسان

The Language of Living Matter

Colliding Worlds

從南方古猿到智人：基因組╳遺傳學╳演化論╳分子鐘，對生命不斷的探索，使「演化」成為生命科學體系的思想脈絡

Robert Eisler and the Magic of the Combinatory Mind

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 23, 1875

Evolution

Pleistocene Mammals of Europe

Evolutionary Ecology

CHRONOLOGY OF THE EARTH AND THE GREAT CONTROVERSY

Consciousness-Based Evolution

Evolution and the Machinery of Chance

Stone Tools and Fossil Bones

Animal Teeth and Human Tools

Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 1

The Science of Love and Betrayal

Extinction & Evolution

Not a Chimp

The Hard Ticks of the World

The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution

Mathematical Methods of Environmental Risk Modeling

Kierkegaard After the Genome