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Weidensaul, Scott: A World on the Wing
Researchers have found that in advance of their flights, migrant birds can bulk up with new muscle mass without really exercising, something humans would...
Yong, Ed: An Immense World
Philosophers have long pitied the goldfish in its bowl, unaware of what lies beyond, but our senses create a bowl around us too—one that...
Antonelli, Alexandre: The Hidden Universe
As a consequence, species are now probably disappearing faster than any time in human history. On every island, every continent, every coral reef, a...
Wallace-Wells, David: The Uninhabitable Earth
The earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a wiping of the fossil record...
McGuire, Bill: Hothouse Earth
What I mean by hothouse Earth, then, is not an ice-free planet, but a world in which lethal heatwaves and temperatures in excess of...
Attenborough, David: Life on Earth
Using this method we can estimate that the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all life on earth – commonly known as LUCA, and basically...
Barrett, Lisa Feldman: Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
Why did a brain like yours evolve? That question is not answerable because evolution does not act with purpose—there is no “why.” But we...
Kolbert, Elizabeth: The Sixth Extinction
If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment...
Smil, Vaclav: Growth
Recently it has been possible to claim that 90% or more of all the
extant information in the world has been generated over the preceding...
Palán, Aleš: Raději zešílet v divočině
Z ptačího pohledu je to pragmatické,
ale když je člověk při zpěvu pozoruje, vidí, že do toho dávají všechno.
Pozoroval jsem pěnici černohlavou, jak se rozechvěje,...
Christian, David: Origin Story
What makes humans different from all
other brainy species is language, a communication tool that is extraordinarily
powerful because it allows us to share our individual...
Peter Wohlleben: Tajný život stromů
„Jak mohl zbytek stromu, zvláště pak pařez, přežít několikasetletou hladovku? Tento exemplář to však zcela zjevně zvládnul. Dostávalo se mu podpory od sousedních stromů,...
Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind
In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s...
Robert Wright: The Moral Animal
But it has taken only around 5,000 generations to turn a wolf into a chihuahua — and, at the same time, along a separate...
Richerson, P. J.; Boyd, R.: V genech není všechno
Psychologové Richard Nisbett a Dov
Cohen se ve své nové knize Kultura cti (Culture of Honor) snaží dokázat, že jih
je mnohem
násilnější, protože jižané mají...
Robin Dunbar: Příběh rodu Homo
„Závěrem tedy můžeme říci, že bipedie, velký mozek a nástroje (to, co jsme tak dlouho považovali za znaky definující lidství), pravděpodobně pocházejí ze zcela...
