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How the Snake Lost Its Legs: Curious Tales from the Frontier of Evo-Devo is a 2014 book on evolutionary developmental biology by Lewis I. Held, Jr. The title pays homage to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, [1] [a] but the "tales" are strictly scientific, explaining how a wide range of animal features evolved, in molecular detail.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is a 1971 children's science fiction/fantasy book by Robert C. O'Brien, with illustrations by Zena Bernstein. The novel was published by the Los Angeles publishing house Atheneum Books. This book was the winner of numerous awards including the 1972 Newbery Medal. [3]
An Aerobie ring. An Aerobie is a flying ring used in a manner similar to a chakram or flying disc (Frisbee), for recreational catches between two or more individuals. Its ring shape of only about 3 mm (0.12 in) thickness [1] makes the Aerobie lighter and more stable in flight than a disc. [2]
Get ready for all of today's NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #540 on Monday, December 2, 2024. Today's NYT Connections puzzle for Monday, December 2, 2024. The New York Times.
When Natalie Kelly lost her brother Nelson Kelly in a Sept. 2021 car crash, the grief of losing her “best friend” was almost too much to bear.After all, the siblings had been “attached at ...
Remember that guidelines are not set in stone — rather, they're good rules to follow. For instance, if you’re 30 years old and earn $75,000, you should try to have that much saved in your 401(k).
Stancil E. D. Johnson (1933–2021) was a psychiatrist and frisbee enthusiast. He was a member of the International Frisbee Hall of Fame [1] and the Disc Golf Hall of Fame. [2] He is considered a pioneer in competitive disc golf and the history of the sport. In 1975, he wrote Frisbee: a Practitioner's Manual and Definitive Treatise. [3]
Systematic biology (hereafter called simply systematics) is the field that (a) provides scientific names for organisms, (b) describes them, (c) preserves collections of them, (d) provides classifications for the organisms, keys for their identification, and data on their distributions, (e) investigates their evolutionary histories, and (f ...