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Weaker Bite Force in Elderly Nazca Boobies

Author : Erynn J. Rebol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Weaker Bite Force in Elderly Nazca Boobies written by Erynn J. Rebol and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detecting physiological decline in old age that underlies declines in survival and reproduction in a wild population can be challenging. This applies especially to long-lived species that require marking around birth in order to recognize elderly individuals perhaps decades later. Here, we used bite force of known-age, long-lived Nazca boobies (Sula granti) as a functional measure of muscle strength. Elderly Nazca boobies show declining survival and reproduction (senescence). Identifying muscle strength as a candidate physiological contributor to this decline, we predicted a parallel age-related decline in muscle strength from middle to old age. Data were collected from 349 nonbreeding adults using a force transducer during the breeding season in November 2017 on Isla Española, Galápagos. Both sexes showed the predicted drop in bite force in the second half of the lifespan. The decline began at a younger age in females, in parallel with sex-specific schedules of actuarial and reproductive senescence documented in an earlier study. Understanding which physiological traits show decline in old age contributes to an integrative portrait of the senescence process in wild animals.

Coastal Marine Ecosystems of Latin America

Author : U. Seeliger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540672281
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Coastal Marine Ecosystems of Latin America written by U. Seeliger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-10-18 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coastal and marine ecosystems, some severely degraded, other still pristine, control rich resources of inshore environments and coastal seas of Latin America's Pacific and Atlantic margins. Conflicts between the needs of the region's nations and diminishing revenues and environmental quality have induced awareness of coastal ecological problems and motivated financial support for restoration and management. The volume provides a competent review on the structure, processes and function of 22 important Latin American coastal marine ecosystems. Each contribution describes the environmental settings, biotic components and structure of the system, considers trophic processes and energy flow, evaluates the modifying influence of natural and human perturbations, and suggests management needs. Although the focus of the book is on basic ecological research, the results have application for coastal managers.

The Big Trivia Quiz Book

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0744036887
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Big Trivia Quiz Book written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put your general knowledge to the test, and impress your family and friends with your astonishing brainpower and trivia genius. An addictive quiz book for all the family featuring 10,000 questions, The Big Quiz Book has something for everyone. With 10 different general knowledge categories - from Science & Technology, Art & Literature, and Natural History, to Food & Drink, Film & TV, and Sport & Leisure - and three increasing levels of difficulty, it offers a fresh and up-to-the-minute quizzing experience that will educate and entertain all the family. Bursting with fascinating facts to boost your trivia knowledge, whatever your specialist subject or your nemesis topic, The Big Quiz Book is perfect for home entertainment and virtual pub quizzes. You won't be able to put it down!

Conquest of the Incas

Author : John Hemming
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330427302
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Conquest of the Incas written by John Hemming and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A superb work of narrative history' Antonia Fraser On 25 September 1513, a force of weary Spanish explorers cut through the forests of Panama and were confronted with an ocean: the Mar del Sur, or the Pacific Ocean. Six years later the Spaniards had established the town of Panama as a base from which to explore and exploit this unknown sea. It was the threshold of a vast expansion. From the first small band of Spanish adventurers to enter the mighty Inca empire, to the execution of the last Inca forty years later, The Conquest of the Incas is a story of bloodshed, infamy, rebellion and extermination, told as convincingly as if it happened yesterday. 'It is a delight to praise a book of this quality which combines careful scholarship with sparkling narrative skill' Philip Magnus, Sunday Times 'A superbly vivid history' The Times

The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life

Author : Richard P. Shefferson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108138608
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life written by Richard P. Shefferson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existing theories on the evolution of senescence assume that senescence is inevitable in all organisms. However, recent studies have shown that this is not necessarily true. A better understanding of senescence and its underlying mechanisms could have far-reaching consequences for conservation and eco-evolutionary research. This book is the first to offer interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolution of senescence in many species, setting the stage for further developments. It brings together new insights from a wide range of scientific fields and cutting-edge research done on a multitude of different animals (including humans), plants and microbes, giving the reader a complete overview of recent developments and of the controversies currently surrounding the topic. Written by specialists from a variety of disciplines, this book is a valuable source of information for students and researchers interested in ageing and life history traits and populations.

Get the Message?

Author : Lucy R. Lippard
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Get the Message? written by Lucy R. Lippard and published by Plume. This book was released on 1984 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Divination on stage

Author : Folke Gernert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110695758
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Divination on stage written by Folke Gernert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.

Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

Author : U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission written by U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oblivion (The Gatekeepers #5)

Author : Anthony Horowitz
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545470021
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Oblivion (The Gatekeepers #5) written by Anthony Horowitz and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final, thrilling conclusion to #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's masterful series! Matt. Pedro. Scott. Jamie. Scar. Five Gatekeepers have finally found one another. And only the five of them can fight the evil force that is on the rise, threatening the destruction of the world. In the penultimate volume of The Gatekeepers series, a massive storm arose that signalled the beginning of the end. Now the five Gatekeepers must battle the evil power the storm has unleashed -- and strive to stop the world from ending.

Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings

Author : Jean Wyrick
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781133309239
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings written by Jean Wyrick and published by Wadsworth Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reliable and straightforward, this text has helped thousands of students learn to write well. Jean Wyrick's rhetorically organized STEPS TO WRITING WELL WITH ADDITIONAL READINGS is known for its student-friendly tone and the clear way it presents the basics of essay writing in an easy-to-follow progression of useful lessons and activities. Through straightforward advice and thoughtful assignments, as well as Wyrick's precise instruction, the text gives students the practice they need to approach writing well-constructed essays with confidence. Everything students need to begin, organize, and revise writing--from choosing a topic to developing the essay to polishing prose--is right here! This special COURSEMATE EDITION features in-text icons that direct students online to CourseMate, where they will find additional practice and resources, writing exercises, supplemental assignments, multimedia that enhances and expands on topics in the text, and suggestions for further learning. By connecting the text to online assets, STEPS TO WRITING WELL WITH ADDITIONAL READINGS: COURSEMATE EDITION gives students a multidimensional learning experience.

The Evolution of Violence

Author : Todd K. Shackelford
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461493145
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Violence written by Todd K. Shackelford and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of our understanding of the causes and consequences of violence. Represented in its chapters are noted scholars from a variety of fields including psychology, anthropology, law, and literature. The contributions reflect a broad scope of inquiry and diverse levels of analysis. With an underlying evolutionary theme each of the contributors invoke their separate areas of expertise, offering empirical and theoretical insights to this complex subject. The multi-faceted aspect of the book is meant to engender new perspectives that will synthesize current knowledge and lead to a more nuanced understanding of an ever timely issue in human behavior. Of additional interest, is a foreword written by world renowned psychologist, Steven Pinker, and an afterword by noted evolutionary scholar, Richard Dawkins.

A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish

Author : John Butt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461583683
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish written by John Butt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.

Wines of South America

Author : Evan Goldstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520273931
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Wines of South America written by Evan Goldstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the variety and quality of wine available in ten South American countries, exploring the regions, styles, and prominent grapes of the continent's two leading producers, Argentina and Chile, as well other nations' evolving industries.

Monteverde

Author : Nalini M. Nadkarni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195133102
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Monteverde written by Nalini M. Nadkarni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-09 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve has captured the worldwide attention of biologists, conservationists, and ecologists and has been the setting for extensive investigation over the past 30 years. Roughly 40,000 ecotourists visit the Cloud Forest each year, and it is often considered the archetypal high-altitude rain forest.This volume brings together some of the most prominent researchers of the region to provide a broad introduction to the biology of the Monteverde, and cloud forests in general. Collecting and synthesizing vital information about the ecosystem and its biota, the book also examines the positive and negative effects of human activity on both the forest and the surrounding communities. Ecologists, tropical biologists, and natural historians will find this volume an indispensable resource, as will all those who are fascinated by the magnificent wonders of the tropical forests.

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?

Author : Stephen Webb
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387955011
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? written by Stephen Webb and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-10-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a 1950 conversation at Los Alamos, four world-class scientists generally agreed, given the size of the Universe, that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations must be present. But one of the four, Enrico Fermi, asked, "If these civilizations do exist, where is everybody?" Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 million stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 million galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14 billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as our own. Webb discusses in detail the 50 most cogent and intriguing solutions to Fermi's famous paradox.

Voices of Time

Author : Eduardo Galeano
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429900350
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Voices of Time written by Eduardo Galeano and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author's own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itself In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling and much-admired Memory of Fire trilogy—brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole—Galeano offers a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political. Beginning with blue algae, the earliest of life forms, these 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family's immigration to Uruguay in the early twentieth century, the fate of love letters intercepted by a military dictatorship, abuses by the rich and powerful, the latest military outrages, and the author's own encounters with all manner of living matter, including generals, bums, dissidents, soccer stars, ducks, and trees. Out of these meditations emerges neither anger nor bitterness, but a celebration of a blessed life in a harsh world. Poetic and passionate, scathing and lyrical, delivered with Galeano's inimitable mix of gentle comedy and fierce moral judgment, Voices of Time is a deeply personal statement from a great and beloved writer.

Man’s Fate and God’s Choice

Author : Bhimeswara Challa
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 142695400X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Man’s Fate and God’s Choice written by Bhimeswara Challa and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world today is facing a bewildering array of problems where human behavior is both brazen and bizarre. Those who are searching for a way out are daring to ask fundamental questions: What is man’s rightful place? Are we a doomed species? Is God becoming weary of mankind? In Man’s Fate and God’s Choice, Bhimeswara Challa shares his comprehensive study of human behavior that suggests that the very paradigm of our thinking is inappropriate for the current challenges we face. In a thoughtful, innovative presentation of ideas, Challa posits that any betterment in human behavior needs a cathartic change at the deepest level, ultimately reawakening the intelligence of the human heart. He begins by examining the greatest challenge of this generation of human beings and continues by placing the multiple identities of man in perspective, reviewing our growing insensitivity to human suffering. Finally, he looks to the living world for inspiration, metaphors, and models for human transformation. Man’s Fate and God’s Choice incisively covers an array of issues and proposes an agenda for action as it challenges those who see misery and ask “Why?” to also see the promise in the rainbow and then ask “Why not?”