Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.

"The Higgs boson ... is the key to understanding why mass exists and how atoms are possible. After billions of dollars and decades of effort by more than six thousand researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland--a doorway is opening into the mind-boggling world of dark matter and beyond. Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll explains both the importance of the Higgs boson and the ultimately human story behind the greatest scientific achievement of our time"--Publisher.

Se trata de un intento de analizar desde un punto de vista crmtico y una postura esciptica la credibilidad de las llamadas paraciencias y el mundo de lo paranormal. La obra se divide en varios capmtulos. En cada uno de ellos se trata de dar un repaso, desde una perspectiva crmtica, a distintas creencias pseudo cientmficas en boga, y analizar desde campos tan diversos como la matematica, la fmsica, la biologma o la filosofma la credibilidad o no de tales supuestos (la videncia, el destino, los extraterrestres, la astrologma, la religisn, la interpretacisn de los sueqos, etc). Las anicdotas e...

Making knowledge about evolution available to everyone, this simple and entertaining book offers answers to the most frequently asked questions. Throughout the text, the reader is reminded of the importance of understanding evolutionary processes in order to approach present day human behavior, including social conduct, as well as the difficulty of trying to decipher the nature of modern human beings without going back to their zoological origin. Divided into two sections, the first one builds the foundation for the latter, which explains the evolution of life, beginning at the physical...