Download or read book Evolution s Chimera written by David Jacobs and published by Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Greek mythology, the chimera was a hybrid monster. Similarly, bats look like they have the body of a mouse, the face of a gargoyle or fox, and the wings of a pterosaur, giving rise to this book’s title. Evolution’s Chimera describes the amazing physical and behavioural adaptations of bats, using them to illustrate the processes of natural evolution. Bats comprise a quarter of all mammals in the world and are the only mammals that can fly. They occupy every landmass and almost every habitat on Earth. They make up the second-most diverse group of mammals on the planet, numbering more than 1 270 species. And they are among the oldest mammals. They are therefore ideal for the study of how evolution generates biological diversity. David Jacobs, an expert on bats currently researching animal evolution, gives an accessible account of evolution using bats as a case study, from adaptation, competition and evolutionary arms races to the role of sensory systems in the adaptation of species. He explores why bats hang upside down, why they are so small and the diversity of their diets, from insects to blood. Based on research done over the last 10 years this book provides a review of the latest research into evolution and biology, indicates what research still needs to be done and introduces new hypotheses for testing.
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Download or read book Chimera Evolution Chapter 1 The Cold Case s New Lead written by Julius Blair and published by JB Comics. This book was released on 2023-06-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A human chimera is a person whose body is composed of genetically distinct cells, as if they are from two different individuals. In Chimera Evolution, when a scientist tries to save his dying wife, he unwittingly causes supernatural abilities to be birthed into their twin children. He also discovers something that puts his whole family in danger, leading to tragic consequences. Now the twins are fully grown and seeking to uncover the dual mystery behind their extraordinary abilities and the tragic murder of their parents. However, they will soon learn that some secrets are not meant to be found out…
Download or read book Chimera Evolution written by Julius Blair and published by JB Comics. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A human chimera is a person whose body is composed of genetically distinct cells, as if they are from two different individuals. In Chimera Evolution, when a scientist tries to save his dying wife, he unwittingly causes supernatural abilities to be birthed into their twin children. He also discovers something that puts his whole family in danger, leading to tragic consequences. Now the twins are fully grown and seeking to uncover the dual mystery behind their extraordinary abilities and the tragic murder of their parents. However, they will soon learn that some secrets are not meant to be found out?
Download or read book Chimeras and Consciousness written by Lynn Margulis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists elucidate the astounding collective sensory capacity of Earth and its evolution through time.
Download or read book Chimeras and Consciousness written by Lynn Margulis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-04-22 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists elucidate the astounding collective sensory capacity of Earth and its evolution through time. Chimeras and Consciousness begins the inquiry into the evolution of the collective sensitivities of life. Scientist-scholars from a range of fields—including biochemistry, cell biology, history of science, family therapy, genetics, microbial ecology, and primatology—trace the emergence and evolution of consciousness. Complex behaviors and the social imperatives of bacteria and other life forms during 3,000 million years of Earth history gave rise to mammalian cognition. Awareness and sensation led to astounding activities; millions of species incessantly interacted to form our planet's complex conscious system. Our planetmates, all of them conscious to some degree, were joined only recently by us, the aggressive modern humans. From social bacteria to urban citizens, all living beings participate in community life. Nested inside families within communities inside ecosystems, each metabolizes, takes in matter, expends energy, and excretes. Each of the members of our own and other species, in groups with incessantly shifting alliances, receives and processes information. Mergers of radically different life forms with myriad purposes—the "chimeras" of the title—underlie dramatic metamorphosis and other positive evolutionary change. Since early bacteria avoided, produced, and eventually used oxygen, Earth's sensory systems have expanded and complexified. The provocative essays in this book, going far beyond science but undergirded by the finest science, serve to put sensitive, sensible life in its cosmic context.
Download or read book Why Evolution is True written by Jerry A. Coyne and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection. Yet, as this succinct and important book shows, that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, and drawn from many disparate fields of science. The very latest research is uncovering a stream of evidence revealing evolution in action - from the actual observation of a species splitting into two, to new fossil discoveries, to the deciphering of the evidence stored in our genome. Why Evolution is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, palaeontology, geology, molecular biology, anatomy, and development to demonstrate the 'indelible stamp' of the processes first proposed by Darwin. It is a crisp, lucid, and accessible statement that will leave no one with an open mind in any doubt about the truth of evolution.
Download or read book The Chimera Virus 1 written by Dean Forchette and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chimera Virus is a fast-paced, sensual, and occasionally horrific science fiction adventure. Book 1 of The Chimera Trilogy. it highlights the evolution of the Chimera virus - a life-form mutated by the vagaries of space and time, safeguarded by a favorable world and malleable beasts. Chimera finds true purpose within the welcoming abode of Man. Through a natural recombinant DNA ability, Chimera transforms this staunch creature into the fearsome Vampyres. Sculpting with skill and wisdom, Chimera ushers in a new epoch, covertly dominated by this race of vigilantes, superior to ordinary humans, enhanced by the DNA of preceding hosts. But alien eyes fall upon this Eden, and s hungry gaze speaks of plans to take it--a worthy addition to their empire. In the modern world, Humans and the Vampyres live in a peculiar symbiotic relationship in which the evil in man infuses life into the blood of the Vampyres. In return, the Vampyres weed out the predators among the oblivious humans. The balance is precarious at best, fraught with a history settling into a curious harmony, until the Earth is invaded by a vanguard of alien soldiers, powerful reptilian invaders. But two female Bloodwarriors present more of an obstacle than the aliens could ever have imagined might exist on this outland world. The girls know there is more at risk than a delicate social fabric -- the fate of the entire world is at stake, and despite the best attempts of a staunch alien commander, the Vampyres are determined to remain at the top of the food chain.
Download or read book Chimera States in Complex Networks written by Eckehard Schöll and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evolution and Individuality Beyond the Genetically Homogeneous Organism written by Henry Joseph Folse (III.) and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2011 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first chapter, we argue that an individual organism ought not to be defined in terms of genetic homogeneity, but rather by the evolutionary criteria of the alignment of fitness interests, the export of fitness due to interdependence for survival and reproduction, and adaptive functional organization. We consider how these concepts apply to various putative individual organisms, review the costs and benefits of intraorganismal genetic heterogeneity, and demonstrate that high relatedness is neither necessary nor sufficient for individuality. In the second chapter, we model the benefits and costs of genetic mosaicism for a long-lived tree in coevolution with a short-lived pest. We demonstrate benefits of mosaicism for trees at both the individual and population levels when somatic mutation introduces new defenses. In the third chapter, we develop a game theoretic model of the decision to reject or fuse with a potential partner in a colonial ascidian, based on weighing costs and benefits of fusion. We find that once fused, the interactions between cell lineages are cooperative in the soma, but competitive in the germline.
Download or read book Symbionts written by Dean J. Forchette and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Symbionts! Microscopic bio-mechanical life forms are loose on the planet. They are hybrids--an instant evolutionary leap created by the Chimera Virus, an intelligent organism brought to Earth by a meteorite, in symbiosis with the Nanites, highly advanced translation bots introduced to the Sol system by Ovek, a soldier from the galactic core.The Chimera are curious by nature and yearn to explore, constantly seeking to inhabit the strongest and the brightest the galaxy has to offerA[a¬A]and desiring to know what lies beyond. The Nanites are pleased to employ their technical expertise to aid their ambitious new associates, revealing gateways which will carry take them into alternative realms. The Chimera's psychic ability is an unexpected and welcome evolutionary leap adding new dimensions to this quest.Are the Symbionts the ultimate threat? Or are they the ultimate salvation, the best hope for survival of the universe? Only the BloodWarriors hold the answer, for these fierce Vampires, the Symbionts and the Universe itself share an intimate destiny.Symbionts is the exciting sequel to The Chimera Virus. The vigilantly vampires, Kara and Megan, are once again pitted against a band of marauding aliens--this time challenged by a species more insidious and vile than the regal Reptilians.In Epoch VII, the ultimate bad girls, the BloodWarriors, embark on a dangerous journey into the void and sink their tusks into the dark unknown.
Download or read book The EBMT Handbook written by Nicolaus Kröger and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access edition of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) handbook addresses the latest developments and innovations in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and cellular therapy. Consisting of 93 chapters, it has been written by 175 leading experts in the field. Discussing all types of stem cell and bone marrow transplantation, including haplo-identical stem cell and cord blood transplantation, it also covers the indications for transplantation, the management of early and late complications as well as the new and rapidly evolving field of cellular therapies. This book provides an unparalleled description of current practices to enhance readers' knowledge and practice skills. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Download or read book Symbionts written by Dean J. Forchette and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Symbionts! Microscopic bio-mechanical life forms are loose on the planet. They are hybrids - an instant evolutionary leap created by the Chimera Virus, an intelligent organism brought to Earth by a meteorite, in symbiosis with the Nanites, highly advanced translation bots introduced to the Sol system by Ovek, a soldier from the galactic core. The Chimera are curious by nature and yearn to explore, constantly seeking to inhabit the strongest and the brightest the galaxy has to offer...and desiring to know what lies beyond. The Nanites are pleased to employ their technical expertise to aid their ambitious new associates, revealing gateways which will carry take them into alternative realms. The Chimera's psychic ability is an unexpected and welcome evolutionary leap adding new dimensions to this quest. Are the Symbionts the ultimate threat? Or are they the ultimate salvation, the best hope for survival of the universe? Only the BloodWarriors hold the answer, for these fierce Vampires, the Symbionts and the Universe itself share an intimate destiny. Symbionts is the exciting sequel to The Chimera Virus. The vigilantly vampires, Kara and Megan, are once again pitted against a band of marauding aliens - this time challenged by a species more insidious and vile than the regal Reptilians. In Epoch VII, the ultimate bad girls, the BloodWarriors, embark on a dangerous journey into the void and sink their tusks into the dark unknown.
Download or read book Chimera Patterns in Networks written by Anna Zakharova and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book devoted to chimera states - peculiar partial synchronization patterns in networks. Providing an overview of the state of the art in research on this topic, it explores how these hybrid states, which are composed of spatially separated domains of synchronized and desynchronized behavior, arise surprisingly in networks of identical units and symmetric coupling topologies. The book not only describes various types of chimeras, but also discusses the role of time delay, stochasticity, and network topology for these synchronization-desynchronization patterns. Moreover, it addresses the question of robustness and control of chimera states, which have various applications in physics, biology, chemistry, and engineering. This book is intended for researchers with a background in physics, applied mathematics, or engineering. Of great interest to specialists working on related problems, it is also a valuable resource for newcomers to the field and other scientists working on the control of spatio-temporal patterns.
Download or read book Evolution and Speciation in Plants written by T.J. Pandian and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants are autotrophs and sessile, while animals are heterotrophs and motile. Sessility has imposed on plants 94% hermaphroditism, 23% selfing, 3% polyploidization and 39% clonality, in comparison to 19 and
Download or read book The Theory of the Free martin written by Frank Rattray Lillie and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Physical Basis of Heredity written by Thomas Hunt Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
