Showing results for "Bangs" in Biological Sciences

How is it possible for the disciplines of cosmology, geology, anthropology, biology, and history to fit together? These 48 lectures answer that question by weaving a single story from accounts of the past developed by a variety of scholarly disciplines. The result is a story stretching from the origins of the universe to the present day and beyond, in which human history is seen as part of the history of our Earth and biosphere, and the Earth's history, in turn, is seen as part of the history of the universe.

In The Other Big Bang, the evolutionary and developmental biologist Eric S. Haag explores the two-billion-year history of sex, from the first organisms on Earth to contemporary humans.

Quando e dove è iniziata la vita? E a cosa somigliavano le prime forme di vita? Interrogativi che l'uomo si pone da sempre, per i quali, pur in mancanza di risposte definitive, si possono avanzare alcune ipotesi. Come quella che colloca l'origine della vita intorno a 3,8 miliardi di anni fa, in un contesto riconducibile a uno di questi ambienti: brodo primordiale, campi geotermali, siti di impatto meteoritico. Certo è che le tessere del più grande e affascinante dei puzzle restano RNA, amminoacidi, protogeni, protocellule.

Viren, Bakterien, Parasiten: Mittlerweile geistern zum Thema Corona so viele Begrifflichkeiten umher, dass es Zeit wird, in einem kleinen Leitfaden etwas Ordnung zu schaffen. Kurz, sachlich und unterhaltsam erklärt Dr. med. Caroline Neumann, welche Erregertypen es gibt, wie sie übertragen werden, ob und wie sie dem Menschen schaden können - und natürlich, wie man sich vor ihnen schützen kann. Natürlich kommt dem Corona-Virus besondere Aufmerksamkeit zu. Dieser kompakte Leitfaden ordnet die Fakten, wie sie uns im Sommer 2020 zur Verfügung stehen.