life logos and the poverty of animals

... account for the diversity of life in the biosphere, it is generally recognized that the origin of life is one of the great unsolved mysteries in science (Radetsky1992; Wade 2000) At the heart of this ... described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics For them, the origin of life is nothing more or less than the emergence of sufficient biological information to enable a system of biopolymers to (1) store ... of life appears to be its capacity, through the use of information, to survive and exist in a nonequilibrium state, resisting the pull toward equilibrium that is described by the Second Law of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... gave to the inner worlds of animals 35 Both Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals and his The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex discussed the inner worlds of organisms, ... resources needed by the group, they spit the water, pollen, or nectar they've collected into the faces of the other bees waiting at the entrance of the hive What they spit to their fellows is essentially ... discusses the worldviews of the astronomer, the chemist, and the physicist, science also has its Umwelten Forming scientific pictures of the universe with the aid of instruments and the cross-checking...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 16:20

... India and the states The IMR and under-five mortality rate are 27 also two of the 48 monitoring indicators of the millennium development goals and are directly linked to the state of poverty of the ... standard separately for rural and urban areas It also provides the method of fixing the cut off point of poor in each of these dimensions 11 Table (b): Dimensional indicators of poverty and the ... attempted to understand the correlation of dimensional poor and the correlation of consumption poor and wealth poor in the states of India at the macro level Among the states of India, the rank order...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... on the tennis courts next to their condo Most of the guests knew and liked Susie Always the star of the Pool Party, she sang old-fashioned standards by the light of tiki torches in front of the ... distant husband and father He worked at the office all day, then read the Congressional Record and legislative materials all evening He spent Saturdays at the office and often returned there on ... middle of the worst drought of the twentieth century, Midwesterners took refuge in their homes as grit sandblasted the paint and pitted the glass on their automobiles Leila swept red dust off the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/03/2014, 02:20

... the nucleus The number of protons in a nucleus gives its atomic number and its positive charge Add the number of neutrons and you have the atomic mass The nucleus of the most common isotope of ... consequence of the physical laws of our universe and the subatomic structure of the oxygen atom As we shall see in Chap 2, the existence of oxygen atoms is in turn a necessary result of the evolution of ... concentration of protons: pH ¼ À log ½Hþ Š: Thus, the higher the pH value, the lower the proton concentration and therefore the degree of dissociation of water This behavior of water depends strongly on the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... know the highest of concepts and the hidden part of reality This is the stage of the evolution of desires that humanity has reached today This is the background for the appearance of the wisdom of ... and they wrote books about what they discovered When Kabbalists first sense the complete reality, they call it the opening of the eyes.” The opening of the eyes is a process of climbing up the ... receive both the Light that comes from the Creator, and the pleasure of having the status of the Giver, it begins to see the oppositeness of its own attributes from those of the Light The will to...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20

... expresses the duality of our wonder at the beauty of the organisms themselves, and at the new view of life that they have inspired _Opabinia_ and company constituted the strange and wonderful life of ... EXPLOSION AND THE ORIGIN OF ANIMALS -LIFE AFTER THE BURGESS: soft-bodied FAUNAS AS WINDOWS INTO THE PAST -the SETTING OF THE BURGESS SHALE WHERE WHY: THE MEANS OF PRESERVATION WHO, WHEN: THE HISTORY ... lies as much in the breadth of ideas that they embody, and in the magnitude of our struggle to interpret their anatomy, as in their elegance of form and preservation The animals of the Burgess Shale...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 00:54

... antelope, the wing of the eagle, the shape of the orchid, the diversity of species, and all the other occasions for wonder in the world of nature It is hard to believe that something as mindless and ... so reassuring a vision of life! And then along comes Darwin and spoils the picnic Or does he? That is the topic of this book From the moment of the publication of Origin of Species in 1859, Charles ... get their power from one of the deepest features of Darwin's discovery THE PRINCIPLE OF THE ACCUMULATION OF DESIGN The key to understanding Darwin's contribution is granting the premise of the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 01:16

... And if they could survive there, why should they not evolve there? When handled with the adept publicity of NASA, ever eager to scrutinize Mars and the deepest reaches of space for signs of life, ... creatures, and ponder the meaning of the heavens If the origin of life amidst the fire and brimstone of early Earth was not as improbable as we once thought (more on this in Part 2), and most of the ... cells either have or once had (and then lost) mitochondria The implication is that the origin of complex cells is inseparable from the origin of the mitochondria: the two events were one and the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:36

... results (here and now) from the foraging flight she has just undertaken If we think of the hive as both the location of the dance and the origin of the flight vector it indicates, the putative spatial ... properties they have Tseng 2004.5.10 08:38 Part of my intention is to convey a sense of the remarkable diversity of the species-specific means of communication used by the world’s animals If some of the ... hammers and saws and ask where they come from We see, of course, that there is a close connection between the structure of the tools and what we can with them, but we should not confuse the activity...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:43

... numbers of HIV-positive individuals being enrolled onto HAART and increasing survival among these patients, there is a growing need to understand the impact of HAART use on the quality of lives of ... Africa, there is an ongoing debate about whether or not the side-effect profile of HAART may adversely affect the HRQoL of HIVpositive individuals More data about the impact of HAART and HAARTrelated ... interpretation of the data, and helped to draft the manuscript RW conceived of the study, participated in its design, and critically reviewed the manuscript All authors have read and approved the final...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... life satisfaction of the dyads, the perceived level of impact of the stroke in everyday life for the persons with stroke and the perceived level of burden of care for the caregiver Life Satisfaction ... Combined life satisfaction and the impact of stroke The results of the impact of stroke in everyday life and the association with the dyads combined life satisfaction are presented in Table These ... contributed to the design of the study, data analysis and to the revision of the manuscript KT was responsible for initiating and planning the study, contributed to the design of the study and was instrumental...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value system of which they live with the relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns." This concept ... the influence of the duration of pain was studied using results of the total sample in regression analysis During their first visit to the clinic, patients were informed about the study and the ... from the department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the University Medical Center Groningen The group consisted of 95 patients consecutively consulting the TMD/Orofacial Pain section for their...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... George and his family, visited the island in the spring of 1945, the rst time since the end of war They exchanged wartime stories, recounted how they had managed to survive, and talked of plans ... for a book that explored the nature of human societies He had experienced dictatorial rule, rst at the hands of the Nazis, then at the hands of the communists Now, in England he was 41 42 Like ... both the Buda and Pest shores of the Danube The Nazi invasion was on It was a “peaceful” invasion: No shots were red, and the only sounds were of the tanks’ clanking chains and whining motors The...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 22:20

... motorcycles and the meaning of life Morbid motivations: the death wish Leather, sex and violence: a day in the life of a biker? The will to (horse) power 10 Angst, authenticity, freedom and meaningfulness ... the instinct of life and the instinct of destruction as it works itself out in the human species This struggle is what all life essentially consists of and the evolution of civilisation may therefore ... between the traditional biker image and sex and aggression leather, sex and violence: a day in the life of a biker? It seems to be a plausible hypothesis that the traditional biker image of the leather-clad...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 14:20

... plebes, and the bloated politicians of ancient Greece and gave them all a show During public debates on the most serious matters of the day—from the rape of Helen, to the economy, to the nature of ... give to the rhetorical genre the art of deliberate culture and employed tropes and metaphors and figurative language and hypallage and catachresis and hyperbaton and doublings of words and repetitions ... THE chagrin of those faithful evolutionists who like to think they’ve cast off the lodestone of God altogether, the father of evolutionary theory himself, Charles Darwin, was a far cry from the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2014, 00:01

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... Egypt The appearance of the “Dog Star” in the morning sky heralded the beginning of the flood of the river Nile Just across the band of the Milky Way there is Procyon, the brightest star of the ... to the Sun and to the Moon, and (b) the sizes of the Sun and the Moon, using the Earth radius as a unit The latter method (b) was based on the eclipse of the Moon (using the shadow cast by the ... Diagram of Eratosthenes’ measurement where R is the radius of the Earth, S is the distance from Alexandria to Syene, and α is the angle of the Sun from overhead at Alexandria as well as the angle...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2016, 20:51

... certain animals to find out what names of the animals English people use as metaphors and how they use them in both texts and speeches Scope of study Metaphors relating to the names of the animals ... This is the reason why I choose the study of metaphors relating to the names of the animals for my graduation paper Aims of the study The study will focus on metaphors relating to the names of some ... centuries, and that the reason why Gandhi said The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country” It can be understood that the British is the strong, the winner (top dog) and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2016, 12:58