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For centuries, the women in Ninon Moise's family have been afflicted by obscure, inexplicable, medical phenomena. Seventeen-year-old Ninon is no exception to this bizarre family inheritance, and she wakes one morning with a debilitating and excruciatingly painful response to touch on her arms. Unlike her forebears, Ninon refuses to passively accept her cursed fate and rebels against the indifferent medical professionals who dismiss her condition as...
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As biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview (which psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen described as "the most important interview of all time"), while we humans lacked the explanation for our 2-million-year corrupted human condition we had no choice but to deny that our distant ape ancestors lived in a state of cooperative and loving innocence. But with the good reason for our corrupted condition now finally found, our species' original...
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"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...
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Los zopilotes ameritan ser el número uno de una colección acerca de animales incomprendidos; su aspecto y forma de alimentarse no los hacen muy atractivos. Esta "biografía" emprende la tarea de ofrecer información amablemente dispuesta para comprender y valorar a tales aves carroñeras, las características que las hacen únicas y sus funciones en el equilibrio de los ecosistemas de la Tierra.
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Are you about to go into a biology class and want to be prepared for all the material inside? Or maybe your in a bio 101 class and you need help understanding some of concepts.
Inside this book you will be given a thorough breakdown of all the fundamentals of biology from the simple one to the complex ones. Every single chapter has practice questions and answers to make sure you've really understood everything.
Inside, you will discover...
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Study one of the most complete transformations of reality in history: the new picture of life that emerged from the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Close by tracing their influence on William Golding's Lord of the Flies and on television reality shows.
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Prepare for a mind-expanding journey. Discover how intelligence evolved, starting from DNA & RNA genesis all the way to the rise of machines. Imagine a world where evolutionary principles influence machine learning algorithms, crafting Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
This provocative exploration delves deep into evolution, unlocking parallels between natural selection and the birth of computing intelligence. The narrative charts an exhilarating...
13) Cave of Bones
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In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa-spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. The lead researcher on the site, still Berger had never made his way into the dark, cramped, dangerous underground spaces where many of the naledi fossils...
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In this audiobook, acclaimed writer and biologist Sean B. Carroll narrates the rollicking, awe-inspiring story of the surprising power of chance in our lives and the world
Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that...
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A sober-minded philosophical exploration of what AI can and cannot achieve
Humans may not be Earth's most intelligent beings for much longer: the world champions of chess, Go, and Jeopardy! are now all AIs. Given the rapid pace of progress in AI, many predict that it could advance to human-level intelligence within the next several decades. From there, it could quickly outpace human intelligence. What do these developments mean for the future of...
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Discover the intricate wonders of the human body with Anatomy and Physiology For Students – the definitive college-level guide tailored specifically for life science and allied health majors.
Dive deep into the machinery that runs the human body, from the minuscule cellular processes to the grand orchestration of the body's many systems. This comprehensive study guide bridges the gap between basic understanding and the intricate details, offering...
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Dragons are an enduring icon around the world. Many cultures have dragons in them as mystical creatures. Dragons also affect the art and stories of many cultures throughout history.
There is also the question of whether dragons really existed or not and do they exist today? Most people would say that the ideas of Dragons being real is just a fantasy. Yet there are videos and pictures of Dragons all over the modern world.
Dragons are part of history...
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