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This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be just as successful' Julian NortonFrom the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been central to the human story. Since our our Neolithic ancestors' first forays into sheep-rearing nearly 11,000 years ago, these remarkable animals have fed us, clothed us, changed our diet and language and financed the conquest of large swathes of the earth.Sally Coulthard weaves this fascinating story into a vivid and colourful tapestry of engaging anecdotes and extraordinary ovine facts, whose multiple strands celebrate just how pivotal these woolly animals are to almost every aspect of human society and culture.This title was published also in the United States under the title Follow the Flock.

The author has always been obsessed with wildlife from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in experimental taxidermy to his groundbreaking research into the mysterious ways of the bumblebee and his mission to protect our rarest bees This book tells the story of his passionate drive

Knisely (Bucknell University) provides students with a practical, readable resource for communicating their scientific knowledge according to the conventions in biology. This second edition has been revised to increase reader friendliness, and contains updated material on biology databases, Microsoft Word, and Excel. Visuals have been added to complement material on formatting graphs and tables, and data from actual lab exercises are presented along with explanations of ways of organizing the data. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A bestselling author neuroscientist and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI For all of neuroscience s advances we ve made little progress on its biggest question How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world not just one model but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world why we have a sense of self and the origin of high level thought A Thousand Brains heralds a revolution in the understanding of intelligence It is a big think book in every sense of the word One of the Financial Times Best Books of 2021 One of Bill Gates Five Favorite Books of 2021

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human storyFewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished from polite academic conversation. Arguing that race is more than just a social construct can get a scholar run out of town, or at least off campus, on a rail. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory.Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand yearsto be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes. Race is not a bright-line distinction; by definition it means that the more human populations are kept apart, the more they evolve their own distinct traits under the selective pressure known as Darwinian evolution. For many thousands of years, most human populations stayed where they were and grew distinct, not just in outward appearance but in deeper senses as well.

La emocionante aventura de las aves migratorias y lo que esta revela de nuestro presente y de nuestro futuro. «Un apasionante viaje junto a estos nómadas alados y las personas que los estudian. Un es

Este libro ofrece un análisis fascinante sobre conductas y habilidades extraordinarias de las aves: desde la resolución de problemas y el uso de herramientas hasta la autoconciencia y y la empatía con numerosas y excelentes ilustraciones a todo color

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFill your garden with flowers all year round with inspiration planting ideas and expert advice from Sarah Raven Colour and scent are the hallmarks of Sarah Raven s style and they are simple luxuries that everyone can bring into their garden A Year Full of Flowers reveals the hundreds of hardworking varieties that make the garden sing each month together with the practical tasks that ensure everything is planted staked and pruned at just the right time Tracing the year from January to December at her home Perch Hill Sarah offers a complete and transporting account of a garden crafted over decades Sharing the lessons learned from years of plant trials she explains the methods that have worked for her and shows you how to achieve a space that s full of life and colour Discover long lasting divinely scented tulips roses that keep flowering through winter the most magnificent dahlias and show stopping alliums as well as how to grow sweet peas up a teepee take cuttings from chrysanthemums and stop mildew in its tracks This is passionate life enriching gardening it s also simple adaptable and can work for you Sarah has made the garden central to her life this book shows you how you can too

A tantalising glimpse of nature s capacity to heal The Times Splendid warm and exhaustively researched Sy Montgomery author of The Soul of an Octopus Full of heart zest and honesty Chantal Lyons author of Groundbreakers For readers of Jennifer Ackerman and Ed Yong environmental journalist Alix Morris recounts the year she spent following seals investigating their fascinating behaviour the effects of their extraordinary return from near extinction and how we can try to bring nature back into balance It might be their large strangely human eyes or their dog like playfulness but seals have long captured people s interest and affection making them the perfect candidate for an environmental cause as well as the subject of decades of study Alix Morris spends a year with these magnetic creatures and brings them to life on the page season by season as she learns about their intelligence their relationships with each other their ecosystems and the changing climate Along with the enigmatic seals themselves Morris gets to know all of the competing interests in the intense debate about the newly recovered seal populations in our coastal waters from local fisherman whose catch is often diminished by savvy seals to tribes who once relied on seal

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La fascinación que ejercen las abejas sobre el ser humano viene de largo: siempre han sido admiradas por sus notables capacidades sociales y arquitectónicas y se las ha asociado con significados simbolicos. Sin embargo, la imagen cultural de estos animales ha ido evolucionando a lo largo del tiempo: desde la encarnacion de la virtud y el civismo a las analogias politicas que se establecian en la Antiguedad, desde los debates renacentistas sobre la monarquia hasta los actuales estudios del comportamiento de estos animales, con conclusiones aplicables a nuestra propia socializacion y al uso de las tecnologias.