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April 26, 2024

Understanding the Bond Between Humans and Pets (Scientific American Explores Big Ideas)

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Free Download Understanding the Bond Between Humans and Pets (Scientific American Explores Big Ideas) by Scientific American
English | July 30, 2023 | ISBN: 1725349574 | 160 pages | PDF | 4.08 Mb
"Tens of millions of households in the United States have pets. They are often considered integral parts of families and close companions. There is a long history of domesticating animals, and this volume in part considers the intertwined evolution of animals and domestic animals to examine how these relationships have developed. It discusses the characteristics and behaviors of cats, dogs, and other animals that allows humans to create such a strong bond with them. It also looks at recent research on the advantages pets have on physical and mental health"-

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April 26, 2024

Predicted Humans

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Free Download Simona Chiodo, "Predicted Humans "
English | ISBN: 1032643110 | 2024 | 146 pages | EPUB, PDF | 468 KB + 6 MB
Predicting our future as individuals is central to the role of much emerging technology, from hiring algorithms that predict our professional success (or failure) to biomarkers that predict how long (or short) our healthy (or unhealthy) life will be. Yet, much in Western culture, from scripture to mythology to philosophy, suggests that knowing one’s future may not be in the subject’s best interests and might even lead to disaster. If predicting our future as individuals can be harmful as well as beneficial, why are we so willing to engage in so much prediction, from cradle to grave?

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January 30, 2024

Adapt How Humans Are Tapping into Nature’s Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future (2024)

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Free Download Amina Khan, "Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature’s Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future"
English | 2017 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 1250060400 | EPUB | 1,2 mb
Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money. Humans are animals too, and animals are incredibly good at doing more with less.

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January 23, 2024

Modern Humans Their African Origin and Global Dispersal

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Free Download Modern Humans: Their African Origin and Global Dispersal By John F. Hoffecker
2017 | 544 Pages | ISBN: 0231543743 | EPUB | 44 MB
Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent-and perhaps the most important-phase of human evolution: the appearance of anatomically modern people (Homo sapiens) in Africa less than half a million years ago and their later spread throughout the world. Leaving no stone unturned, John F. Hoffecker demonstrates that Homo sapiens represents a "major transition" in the evolution of living systems in terms of fundamental changes in the role of non-genetic information. Modern Humans synthesizes recent findings from genetics (including the rapidly growing body of ancient DNA), the human fossil record, and archaeology relating to the African origin and global dispersal of anatomically modern people. Hoffecker places humans in the broad context of the evolution of life, emphasizing the critical role of genetic and non-genetic forms of information in living systems as well as how changes in the storage, transmission, and translation of information underlie major transitions in evolution. He also draws on information and complexity theory to explain the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa several hundred thousand years ago and the rapid and unprecedented spread of our species into a variety of environments in Australia and Eurasia, including the Arctic and Beringia, beginning between 75,000 and 60,000 years ago. This magisterial work will appeal to all with an interest in the ever-fascinating field of human evolution.

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January 16, 2024

Alfie and Me What Owls Know, What Humans Believe [Audiobook]

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Free Download Carl Safina (Author, Narrator), "Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe"
English | ASIN: B0CRM7B9W9 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~12:19:00 | 349 MB
When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they’d rescued, she’d be a temporary presence. But Alfie’s feathers were not growing correctly, requiring prolonged care. As Alfie grew and gained strength, she became a part of the family, joining a menagerie of dogs and chickens and making a home for herself in the backyard.
Alfie & Me is the story of the remarkable impact this little owl would have on their lives. The continuing bond of trust following her freedom-and her raising of her own wild brood-coincided with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a year in which Carl and Patricia were forced to spend time at home without the normal obligations of work and travel. Witnessing all the fine details of their feathered friend’s life offered Carl and Patricia a view of existence from Alfie’s perspective.

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