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THE AGE OF WONDER: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Call Number: Q 127 .G4 .H752 2009
ISBN/ISSN: 0375422226
Holmes harnesses the twin energies of scientific curiosity and poetic invention in this superb intellectual history ...NY Times
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins
Call Number: QH 366.2 .D271 g 2009
ISBN/ISSN: 1416594787
If Charles Darwin walked into a 21st-century bookstore and wanted to know how his theory had fared, this is the book he should pick up.
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Study shows that frogs evolved jumping before they refined landing
Sometimes divers, to their own painful dismay, do belly flops. But did you ever see a frog belly flop? That’s just what primitive living frogs do, according to a new study by Dr. Richard Essner, from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in the US, and colleagues, looking at the evolution of frog jumping and landing. They found that frogs became proficient at jumping before they perfected landing. This evolutionary split, characterized by an inability to rapidly rotate the limbs forward during flight in order to land front legs first, might also explain why primitive frogs’ back legs are out-of-phase with one another when they swim. Essner’s work is published in Springer’s journal Naturwissenschaften.
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Philosophical foundations for the practices of ecology / William Reiners, Jeffrey A. Lockwood. - William Reiners, Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Call Number: QH 540.5 .R367 2010
ISBN/ISSN: 0521115698
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