Estampas de la ciencia

Making knowledge about evolution available to everyone, this simple and entertaining book offers answers to the most frequently asked questions. Throughout the text, the reader is reminded of the importance of understanding evolutionary processes in order to approach present day human behavior, including social conduct, as well as the difficulty of trying to decipher the nature of modern human beings without going back to their zoological origin. Divided into two sections, the first one builds the foundation for the latter, which explains the evolution of life, beginning at the physical...

Incluso con los procedimientos quirrgicos y drogas farmacuticas, casi un milln de estadounidenses sigue muriendo cada ao de cardiopata. De manera lamentable, estamos fallando en la detencin de este asesino silencioso, que no es solo un problema de los hombres; de hecho, 500.000 mujeres son vctimas cada ao de enfermedades del corazn, sobrepasando al cncer de mama. La cardiopata, que cuesta al pblico estadounidense 298 mil millones de dlares por ao, es solo una manifestacin de las enfermedades cardiovasculares, que incluyen: hipertensin, colesterol alto, diabetes, cardiopata coronaria,...

When a wolf is locked up, it begins to spin around in its cage, his defense mechanisms are activated, his natural cunning sharpens in order to escape... and finally, he howls. If a documentary zoologist is confined, he will immediately investigate the reason for his isolation; but when he is told that a pangolin and a bat are the reason, he will realize that something is wrong. For someone who --with the main objective of writing revealing scripts for documentaries-- is used to interpreting the behavior of sharks and ants, deciphering the cryptic language of science professionals and...

GLORIA, acrónimo de “Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments”, es decir, la Iniciativa para la Investigación y el Seguimiento Global de los Ambientes Alpinos, es un proyecto internacional de observación a largo plazo para evaluar los impactos del cambio climático sobre la biodiversidad de la alta montaña del planeta. Esta es la quinta versión del manual de campo de GLORIA, que describe con detalle el muestreo básico o estándar del Estudio de las cimas GLORIA, con las pautas para la selección de sitio, instalación de parcelas y recopilación de datos. Además, ...