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Sigma Force novels volume 16
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English
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"A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery: an unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them--plants and animals--has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle known to locals as the Kingdom of...
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The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled watchmaker. In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins crafts an elegant riposte to show that the complex process of Darwinian natural selection is unconscious and automatic. If natural selection can be said to play the role of a watchmaker in nature, it is a...
5) Ape to man
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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The video chronicles the discoveries and theories that have led to our current understanding of evolution, including discarded postualtes, an elaborate hoax that baffled science and the key elements that separate man from ape.
8) Evolution
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2009, 2005.
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English
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Bill Nye compares primordial to present when he dabbles with Darwin and looks at his genes in this evolutionary program.
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[2002]
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English
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Wild Australia : the edge, filmed on the doorstep of Australia's largest city, is about an ancient wilderness-- a labyrinth of lost worlds and magical places - beautiful and treacherous waterfalls, canyons and underground rivers, carved by streams that lead back into a world as it was ninety million years ago. Rappel into this world of exotic creatures and unique plant life with our modern bushwhackers.
12) You are stardust
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[2012]
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English
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Introduces readers to the extensive and surprising ways in which they're connected to the natural world around them.
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English
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"Evolution is the process that created the terrible teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex and the complex human brain, clever enough to understand the workings of nature. Young readers will learn how a British naturalist named Charles Darwin studied nature and developed his now-famous concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest. And how modern-day science has added to our understanding of the theory of evolution."--Publisher's web site.
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[2013]
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English
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"Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, and foun der of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods offer revolutionary new insights into dog intelligence and the interior lives of our smartest pets."--Provided by publisher.
18) How life began
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[2011]
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English
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Was life triggered by some event, like lightning hitting a pond full of amino acids? Earth was teeming with life billions of years before the dinosaurs existed. Single-celled organisms inundated the oceans, and the soil swarmed with living creatures. Where did it all come from and how did it go from a single-celled organism to a trillion-celled organism like Man? Cutting-edge science is testing out answers about life's origins and how life can be...
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[2011]
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English
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Throughout history, the forces of evolution and genetic mutation have endowed humans with astonishing new abilities and features. It's a process that continues to this day, and nowhere is it more evident than in the fascinating world of Stan Lee's Superhumans. Co-hosted by Stan Lee, the legendary creator of the X-Men, Spider-Man, and the Hulk, the series scours the globe for the real-life counterparts of Lee's characters: people with unique genetic...
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