| 单词 | species |
| 例句 | The fish bone fragments would be sent to a lab where they could hopefully identify the specific species of fish, giving clues to the shark’s whereabouts. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z In a later edition, he would go on to say more, but just a little bit more, about how “one species had been taken and modified for different ends.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Initially, one of the most puzzling features of animal domestication is the seeming arbitrariness with which some species have been domesticated while their close relatives have not. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dobzhansky’s final flourish was to solve the “mystery of mysteries” that had preoccupied Darwin: the origin of species. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The human species is coming of age here. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s no more possible to pen two such herds together than to pen two males of a solitary species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For Lucretius the attraction of iron by a magnet takes place according to a law of nature, and species breed true, dogs producing dogs and cats cats, according to a law of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Far more species have become extinct in the history of the Earth than exist today; they are the terminated experiments of evolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the scores on those four dimensions are so different as to make you think you are looking at two different species of humans. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Nearly half of all Smokies mussels species are endangered; twelve are thought to be extinct. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Table 9.2 shows that Eurasia has the most candidates, 72 species, just as it has the most species in many other plant and animal groups. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Eurasia harbored many domestic animal species and hence developed many such microbes, while the Americas had very few of each. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Within the last 6,000 years it has been easiest from Eurasia to sub-Saharan Africa, supplying most of Africa’s species of livestock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Turner wondered if the tendency toward homicide might be one of the multiform individual differences or slight variations that were introduced into a species by moments just such as this. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Every two species that evolved from a common ancestor, such as horses and donkeys, were at one time just two populations of the same species, like bulldogs and spaniels. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As we shall see in the next chapter, the corresponding problem for domestication of big wild mammals proves easier to solve, because there are many fewer species of them than of plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He and Lily are both members of the World Seed Preservation Organization, a group committed to preserving original species of plants. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The average species on Earth lasts for only about four million years, so if you wish to be around for billions of years, you must be as fickle as the atoms that made you. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Two million years ago, genetic mutations resulted in the appearance of a new human species called Homo erectus. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A new species of yeast, apparently unique to Antarctica, was discovered in his samples by his widow, Helen Simpson Vishniac. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With so much moisture in the air and loose dirt from both tectonic upheavals and the new species of flora tearing up the topsoil, it was like thin mud being thrown constantly in your face. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z These were not mastodon and mammoth hunters—both species were already extinct. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He didn’t report that as he reviewed some of his finds on the journey home, he began, tentatively, to explore the idea of the transmutation of species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Rapid spread of a crop may preempt domestication not only of the same wild ancestral species somewhere else but also of related wild species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Luckily for these species, succession is often interrupted—Nature does not move in lockstep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In 1914, the last surviving members of each species died within weeks of each other in captivity. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z All this changed about 10,000 years ago, when Sapiens began to devote almost all their time and effort to manipulating the lives of a few animal and plant species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In a wild fly species named Drosophila pseudoobscura, for instance, Dobzhansky found multiple gene variants that influenced complex traits, such as life span, eye structure, bristle morphology, and wing size. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In Haudenosaunee lore, the birds represented nature’s generosity, a species literally selected by the spirit world to nourish humankind. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z On the one hand, perhaps almost any well-watered temperate or tropical area of the globe offers enough species of wild plants suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Though the species is usually to be found in the Mediterranean, a superb blue roan specimen was caught by merpeople off the shores of Scotland in 1949 and subsequently domesticated by them. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z These insecticides are not selective poisons; they do not single out the one species of which we desire to be rid. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Adena tobacco, a different species from the tobacco in cigarettes today, contains several hallucinogens and five to ten times as much nicotine— enough, all told, to make it psychoactive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By contrast, a bulldog and a spaniel may look very different, but they are members of the same species, sharing the same DNA pool. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Particularly surprising is the large number of species of African and American mammals that were never domesticated, despite their having Eurasian close relatives or counterparts that were domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of the most fascinating control work in European forests employs the forest red ant as an aggressive insect predator — a species which, unfortunately, does not occur in North America. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The topic of disagreement is unknown, but likely concerned species formation, variation, and heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Big mammalian herbivore species react to danger from predators or humans in different ways. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We embarked on our cosmic voyage with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each generation asked anew with undiminished wonder: What are the stars? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, peregrines are an endangered species,” he said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z How, for instance, did a new species of animal arise from another species? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The variety of wild animals thus tamed is far greater than the variety eventually domesticated, and includes some species that we would scarcely have imagined as pets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hands-on cyclotron operators, a species of which Bethe was not a member, understood that there were so many imponderables about how the machine worked that empirical experience still trumped even the most carefully polished theory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As we shall see, there were few or no wild mammal species suitable for domestication in the other Mediterranean zones of California, Chile, southwestern Australia, and South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He instantly recognized that the bones did not belong to any extant species and hence must be very old. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This to Paley was evidence of the existence of God and proof that God was the creator of all species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z While the rain forest had more kinds of animals than any other habitat—with many species still undiscovered—they were often difficult to see. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Whichever the case, they were not a totally alien species, connected as they were even to royalty. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The smaller species, such as midges and blackflies, become re-established rather quickly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “There are certain similarities between the species,” Ma says thoughtfully. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Already there are disturbing records of heavy mortality among more than 20 other species of ground-feeding birds whose food — worms, ants, grubs, or other soil organisms — has been poisoned. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As a species, we follow living leaders and—oddly, but it seems universally—we one way or another honor our dead. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I think it’s fair to say, however, that as my appearance changed in those years a species of sadness infiltrated my parents’ love. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Keeping an endangered species carries a fine and a year’s imprisonment.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As a rule, viruses, microbes, and parasites do not kill the majority of their victims—the pest that wipes out its host species has a bleak evolutionary future. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Only a small percentage of wild mammal species ended up in happy marriages with humans, by virtue of compatibility on all those separate counts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a chance to be a true explorer—mapping an unknown river and discovering new wildlife species in a land never before seen by any naturalist, or any non-native person for that matter. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z And if they had, what did that mean about the creation of new species? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared at me for a moment with an odd expression on his face—perhaps surprise, perhaps consternation—as if I were a species he’d never seen before. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The New England hurricane of 1938 carried it into Pennsylvania and New York, but the Adirondacks have generally served as a barrier to its westward advance, being forested with species not attractive to it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They quickly found that of ten cell lines thought to be from nine different species—including dog, pig, and duck—all but one were actually from primates. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In terms of species richness, Balee told me, the forest islands of Bolivia are comparable to any place in South America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If you were an alien who came to Earth to study its life- forms, you wouldn't even think the two of them were the same species. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z That occasional cross-pollination occurred not only between individuals of the same species, but also between related species to produce interspecific hybrids. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A curious naturalist traveling from the Galápagos to England—a Darwin in reverse—might have been astonished to find that each region had its own species of cow. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Humans can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Yet all crops arose from wild plant species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They believed in the prevailing concept of God: God as benevolent Father who created every single species as it existed now, unchanged. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For a new species to arise, organisms must no longer be able to reproduce viably with each other. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Audubon paints an active cuckoo pair within a community of other species, reaching to grasp a beetle on a magnolia bush in its native Louisiana. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Equatorial Africa’s tsetse flies, carrying trypanosomes to which native African wild mammals are resistant, proved devastating to introduced Eurasian and North African species of livestock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Inscriptions, papyruses, books time-bind the human species and permit us to hear those few voices and faint cries of our brothers and sisters, our ancestors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The population of Europe and western Asia between 130,000 and 40,000 years ago is represented by especially many skeletons, known as Neanderthals and sometimes classified as a separate species, Homo neanderthalensis. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It may be said that new species are forming all the time. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Other star systems are accessible to the human species, but only after great effort. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By the precise and delicate timing that is nature’s own, the emergence of one species of wild bees takes place on the very day of the opening of the willow blossoms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To judge from the bone evidence of the animal species on which they preyed, their hunting skills were unimpressive and mainly directed at easy-to-kill, not-at-all-dangerous animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In this view we are a restless species with a very short history of roots, and those not widely distributed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When a virus is trying, so to speak, to crash into the human species, the warning sign may be a . spattering of breaks at different times and places. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The second neglected fact is the truly explosive power of a species to reproduce once the resistance of the environment has been weakened. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Homo sapiens was the first and only human species to reach the western hemisphere landmass, arriving about 16,000 years ago, that is in or around 14,000 BC. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Gould was especially excited about the finches: There seemed to be more than a dozen species of finches never seen anywhere else before. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There were other things in the lair of the snake: a fox’s tail, wood-pigeon wings, the head of a big fish, and fur pelts of many species of creatures. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Despite their many differences, all human species share several defining characteristics. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If a caterpillar died before pupating, there was no guarantee they would be able to find that particular species again—or its host plant—in the riot of vegetation. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Aside from being completely different species, there is a sig-nificant yet odd difference in the color of the Lazarus woodpecker and the pileated one, the latter having a distinctly darker bill. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z But the broader problem, which we shall look at now, is the fact that our chemical attack is weakening the defenses inherent in the environment itself, defenses designed to keep the various species in check. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Speeding down this fast lane, Homo sapiens soon far outstripped all other human and animal species in its ability to cooperate. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I have great faith in the human species. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Like his father, he hunted the traditional food of his species—ducks and other waterfowl. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Not only the survival of an entire species, but also the creation of new species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “When two races of men meet, they act precisely like two species of animals,” he wrote. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact of insecticide storage in the germ cells of any species should therefore disturb us, suggesting comparable effects in human beings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That would spell the end of everything, unless the Mud People had learned to coexist with other species. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z They live together in dense, interdependent communities, feeding and supporting the environment for each other, regulating the balance of populations between different species by a complex system of chemical signals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, many wild animal species reached the first stage in the sequence of animal-human relations leading to domestication, but only a few emerged at the other end of that sequence as domestic animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There were more than 1,500 species of jellyfish...maybe even as many as 10,000. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Foragers relied on dozens of species to survive, and could therefore weather difficult years even without stocks of preserved food. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The same may have held true for many other species. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They passed one huge tank full of tropical species, and when Frank pointed to a particular fish and asked what it was, Kate said, “Oh, those are the yellow ones.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z If music is an inborn and biological component, it should be found in infants, as well as in other animal species. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In contrast, members of most solitary territorial animal species cannot be herded. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But he felt certain that his theory was right, that new species were created all the time by the process of natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not yet clear what they accomplish for the insect, but it is known that the species cannot survive long without them. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When we destroy a wild area, we may be destroying a whole species of plant or animal that is not found anywhere else. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It is customary for the first identifier to have the species named after him, or any name he chooses, so long as it is not already in use. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Sapiens could dig up delicious truffles and hunt down woolly mammoths, but domesticating either species was out of the question. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He had told her at least part of what he was thinking about the origin of species, and he admitted that he was not a believer as she was. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A boy with lime-colored hair who looks like he’s channeling for an alien species dozes; two Goths in black velvet dresses and artfully torn pantyhose trade Mona Lisa smiles. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Almost every species that has ever existed has already disappeared forever. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Fireball is aggressive but more tolerant of its own species than most dragons, sometimes consenting to share its territory with up to two others. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Pigeons destroyed farm fields so often that the bishop of Quebec formally excommunicated the species in 1703. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The offspring thus produced from the conjunction of deity and damsel hath a nature intermixed, the two species commingled, and perhaps, like the mule, is incapable itself of generation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He believed there was a direct analogy, a way into the species problem. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Heavy mortality has occurred among about 90 species of birds, including those most familiar to suburbanites and amateur naturalists. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z However, many parts of Eurasia did have quite a few of these 13 species living together in the same area: for example, seven of the wild ancestors occurred in Southwest Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Whichever theory proves correct, most large wild mammal species that might otherwise have later been domesticated by Native Americans were thereby removed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Members of a closely related chimpanzee species, bonobos, usually live in more egalitarian groups dominated by female alliances. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowledge of wild species was presumably even more detailed before the rise of food production, when everyone on Earth still depended entirely on wild species for food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The importance of domesticated mammals rests on surprisingly few species of big terrestrial herbivores. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If they lost some of their staple foodstuffs, they could gather or hunt other species, or move to a less affected area. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Faustian bargain between humans and grains was not the only deal our species made. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncontrolled, open pollination would, over time, turn the species into a single, relatively homogeneous entity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Powerful sprayers direct a stream of poison to all parts of the tallest trees, killing directly not only the target organism, the bark beetle, but other insects, including pollinating species and predatory spiders and beetles. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What was at stake in nature was the survival of an entire species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z John James Audubon painted three species of bird—the small-headed flycatcher, the carbonated warbler, and the Blue Mountain warbler—that have not been seen by anyone since. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It would be a Swanburne squirrel through and through, and, therefore, its behavior could not be considered representative of the high-strung and woefully undereducated furball that is more typical of the species. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Elypnotized by mutual mistrust, almost never concerned for the species or the planet, the nations prepare for death. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To what end would God create species only to wipe them out later? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We are fortunate: we are alive; we are powerful; the welfare of our civilization and our species is in our hands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Maize, she suggested, might have been created by repeatedly crossing Zea diploperennis, a rare maize relative, and another cousin species, Eastern gamagrass. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If the availability of one species was reduced, they could gather and hunt more of other species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Depending on their geographic homeland, East Asian and Pacific peoples differed in their access to domesticable wild plant and animal species and in their connectedness to other peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Among them is the woodcock, a species that winters in southern areas recently heavily sprayed with heptachlor. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Naturally, almost any mammal species that is sufficiently large is capable of killing a human. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Naturally, the nervous species are difficult to keep in captivity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All in all, she created sixty life-size scenes, depicting ninety new insect metamorphoses and fifty-three species of plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I already mentioned their knowledge of hundreds of local plant and animal species and each species’ edibility, medical value, and other uses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Charles did not address the origin of the human species in this book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The discovery of a complete unified theory, therefore, may not aid the survival of our species. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Its emergence was accompanied by the development of a new stone tool technology, now recognised as a defining feature of this species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Other striking examples involve wild species that were not domesticated in areas where food production never arose spontaneously, even though those wild species had close relatives domesticated elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Scientists studying living organisms were far more preoccupied with other matters: embryology, cell biology, the origin of species, and evolution. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Especially instructive are cases in which a single wild plant species was variously selected for different purposes and thereby gave rise to quite different-looking crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Harry felt as separate from the crowd as though they were a different species. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Yet the real meaning of the word human is ‘an animal belonging to the genus Homo’, and there used to be many other species of this genus besides Homo sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But there are no wild species that resemble maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Still a fourth line of evidence that some mammal species are much more suitable than others is provided by the repeated independent domestications of the same species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His tone was academic, as if discussing the breeding patterns of a mildly interesting species of rodent. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z There is no mammal species that the first settled peoples of that area had more opportunity to domesticate than gazelles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Scientists think that morels are a mycorrhizal species that live on the roots of the pine trees. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There are about 40 other species of olives in tropical and southern Africa, southern Asia, and eastern Australia, some of them closely related to Olea europea, but none of them was ever domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Knowing far more about local plants than all but a handful of modern professional botanists, they would hardly have failed to cultivate any useful wild plant species that was comparably suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The result was again the start of farming dependent on crops from elsewhere, a failure to domesticate local species, and a massive modern replacement of human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Baaz Mtombé’s Night Zoo was rumored to hold over a hundred exotic species within its confines; in her eleven years of contracted service to it, Koffi had never bothered to count. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He admitted that one could not see the intermediate stages of a species’ development in the fossil record. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He planned to collect new species of birds and other animals for the American Museum of Natural History. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Who knows, we might even acknowledge the fragility and vulnerability that always accompany high specialization in biology, and movements might start up for the protection of ourselves as a valuable, endangered species. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Darwin’s phrase “natural selection” refers to certain individuals of a species surviving better, and / or reproducing more successfully, than competing individuals of the same species under natural conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He saw the Negro as a different species. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, the San Diego and Los Angeles zoos are now subjecting the last surviving California condors to a more draconian control of breeding than that imposed upon any domesticated species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Prior to the cognitive revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively on the Afro-Asian landmass. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Would ancient Sapiens have been more tolerant towards an entirely different human species? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles reasoned that if too many individuals of a species are born in the same place and try to live off a limited supply of food, there is a fight for survival. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the cacti or prickly pears escaped from his gardens and by 1925 about 20 species could be found growing wild. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He’d never seen him angry before, let alone wrathful, and it made him seem bigger somehow, an altogether different and more dangerous species of Strange than the one he had known all these years. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The furry crawlers were a much larger species of spider than Charlotte had been. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “We need to remove some of the native species. The Collective believes an airborne herbicide can kill foliage, without risking physical contact with dangerous flora.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, you are,” said the officer, “but that doesn’t give you the right to sell endangered species. Let’s go see the judge.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “It’s a universal instinct of the human species, isn’t it, that desire to dress up in some sort of disguise?” said Frank. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z It urged the Congress to “take such measures in their wisdom, as the powers with which they are invested will authorize, for promoting the abolition of slavery, and discouraging every species of traffic in slaves.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Looking at the specimens he had collected, Charles realized that species were forming and changing all the time, too. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Because maize kernels are wrapped inside a tough husk, human beings must sow the species—it essentially cannot reproduce on its own. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In this region, cod was the species that governed the overall composition of the ecosystem. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In particular, two species of beetles in southern France, pea-sized and of metallic color, have their whole beings so adapted to the presence of the weed that they feed and reproduce only upon it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The result was several distinct species, to each of which scientists have assigned a pompous Latin name. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Vervet monkeys cavorted as much as their larger cousins, and the babies of both species occasionally joined in play. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes remembers reading somewhere about how Dutch elm disease wiped out the entire species on the East Coast except for a lone tree in Manhattan surrounded by concrete. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Eighty-one species are described in the following pages, but I do not doubt that more will be discovered, necessitating another revised edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s got lots and lots of species,” Shay said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Then they were laughing, the species of laughter that often comes as a bridesmaid of violence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever insecticides are applied only minimum dosages are used — barely enough to control the pest without avoidable harm to beneficial species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The earth’s immune system, so to speak, has recognized the presence of the human species and is starting to kick in. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Accordingly, the number of possible individual human beings is vastly greater than the number that have ever lived: the untapped potential of the human species is immense. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The physicists are another species, whiter-skinned, towel-draped against the sun, unearthly, the soles of their feet so sensitive that they limp on sand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Africa’s four species of zebras are even worse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At every change in rock strata certain species of fossils disappeared while others carried on into subsequent levels. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z You might say each species spoke with its own unique accent. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The most valuable domesticable wild species were concentrated in only nine small areas of the globe, which thus became the earliest homelands of agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was remarkable that the same species of bird was able to thrive in two places so far apart, and so completely different. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Some species of yeast taste better than others, however, and this is where geography and luck enter in. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Almost everything he encountered in Cuba—including, at our hotel, the variety of fish in the ponds, whose species he could easily name, and the caged cockatoos in the lobby—pleased him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Puzzling over how new species were created, he turned to experts in different fields: He talked to Elizabeth about gardening. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I add, “There are lots of rare animal species that live on Madagascar.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Dead fish of 27 species were observed, totaling about 1000 pounds to a mile of riverbank. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Languages became different species, retaining enough resemblance to an original ancestor so that the family resemblance can still be seen. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The importation of plants is the primary agent in the modern spread of species, for animals have almost invariably gone along with the plants, quarantine being a comparatively recent and not completely effective innovation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One of her own species was calling her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Only later did domesticates derived from indigenous species of the Indian subcontinent, such as humped cattle and sesame, appear in Indus Valley farming communities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Something about him said government—a species Dad had trained us to avoid. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Tarantula, a type of arachnid. What species is this one?” he asks. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The bone clearly didn’t belong to any species of creature still alive, certainly not in New Jersey. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The fossil evidence could be consistent with the idea of a Great Designer; perhaps some species are destroyed when the Designer becomes dissatisfied with them, and new experiments are attempted on an improved design. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In Europe, untold numbers of native species were crushed against the impassable barrier of the Alps and its smaller cousins and fell into extinction. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It therefore seems extremely unlikely that wild species of potential value would have escaped the notice of the first farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Looking at each organism he studied, he tried to work out how that species had been formed. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, some scientists believe that Maria may have been the only person to record the metamorphoses of many species in Surinam that have since become extinct. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I can book you for that, and for harboring an endangered species.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To clarify this point, I will often use the term ‘Sapiens’ to denote members of the species Homo sapiens, while reserving the term ‘human’ to refer to all extant members of the genus Homo. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They were familiar with every species of plant and tree, and although they might not have known the technical names for them, they had their own names for things. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Eurasia has the largest number of big terrestrial wild mammal species, whether or not ancestral to a domesticated species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But working on the species sketch at Maer had gone well; he now knew that he would not be idle in the country. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Europa, Leda, Semele, Alcmene, and the Nazarene girl, much as the cowbird, first in deception and violence, doth force the female of other species to hatch its young. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Indians not only created a new species, they created a new environment to put it in. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It reproduced, and a new species of finch began to appear. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In their home ecosystems these species have, like all living things, a full complement of parasites, microbes, viruses, and insect predators to shorten and immiserate their lives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Our coyote was part of a species in danger. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z To her delight, he had drawn stages of each species on one page—caterpillar, pupa, and butterfly—which confirmed what she herself had observed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They were almost, but not quite, entirely separate species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Variation and natural selection offer cogent explanations of the mechanism by which evolution might occur within a species, but they do not explain the formation of species per se. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “About three hundred years ago, some Rusty figured a way to engineer the species to adapt to wider conditions. She messed with the genes to make them propagate more easily.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Instead they preyed on deer, horse, antelope, jackrabbit, and, now and then, giant turtle, as well as several species of rodent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She was like another species, she left the other girls so far behind. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The first set consists of continental differences in the wild plant and animal species available as starting materials for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The yellow grass made it hard to see my brand-new species of big yellow grasshopper. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z For instance, 95 percent of the cotton grown in the world today belongs to the cotton species Gossypium hirsutum, which was domesticated in prehistoric times in Mesoamerica. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Chili peppers, squashes, amaranths, and chenopods are other crops of which different but related species were domesticated in Mesoamerica and South America, since no species was able to spread fast enough to preempt the others. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There, isolated from others of their kind, they developed many new species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On the cream-colored pages, he had begun to jot down his secret and revolutionary thoughts about the origin of new species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It's about the amount of soil you'd put in a window box, and the only seeds I have are a few species of grass and ferns. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It may be said that God did not create all the species at once, as you have been told to believe. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, the first farmers in the Jordan Valley selected the 2 very best of the 23 best wild grass species available to them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In this way the integrity of the race and of the species is preserved; in this way like begets like. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The most glaring difference between American and Eurasian food production involved big domestic mammal species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Howard returned to Clovis in the summer of 1933 and systematically surveyed Blackwater Draw, looking for areas in which, like Folsom, human artifacts and extinct species were mixed together. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Miss Ellis was looking at the two of them like a bird watcher onto a rare species. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z But the Pilgrims, who regarded personal adornment as a species of idolatry, were dismayed by what they saw as the indigenous penchant for foppery. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One of the important mammal species hunted for meat, the gazelle, originally lived in huge herds but was overexploited by the growing human population and reduced to low numbers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And I can’t exactly say when animal activists around the world began calling for equal billing for their own favorite species, adding in Year of the Otter, and the Whale, and the Penguin. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If so, their absence would reveal nothing about whether Indians ate the species. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Keystone species have disproportionate impact on their ecosystems. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The good news, it appears, is that it takes an awful lot to extinguish a species. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The same pattern repeated itself elsewhere in the world, whenever peoples lacking native wild mammal species suitable for domestication finally had the opportunity to acquire Eurasian domestic animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps my species lacks the capacity,” he said. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The insect pathogens are so specific that they infect only a small group of insects — sometimes a single species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We already have slow interstellar flight, and think fast interstellar flight a possible goal for the human species. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This example from the Jordan Valley, like that from Tell Abu Hureyra, illustrates that the first farmers used their detailed knowledge of local species to their own benefit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A. californica is sufficiently rare that it has been classified as an endangered species. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people argued that fossils existed because God, displeased with his creations, had engineered a few worldwide catastrophes that had destroyed all the existent species and then had started creation all over again. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our Führer would remind you that it makes no sense to support the weak or crippled. In nature, the weaker species simply die.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Most of the species she discovered were unknown to Europeans at the time, and her observations were widely quoted and discussed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z With the passage of time we may expect progressively more serious outbreaks of insects, both disease-carrying and crop-destroying species, in excess of anything we have ever known. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But the arrival of Homo sapiens inaugurated a golden age for the species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z With the passing of generations, the two species co-evolved to communicate well with each other. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Yet scientists today could undoubtedly, if they wished, fulfill for many species that part of the definition of domestication that specifies the control of breeding and food supply. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They are not species, and they deny the existence of species. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They began as mutual friends and admirers, even naming fossil species after each other, and spent a pleasant week together in 1868. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There is no other species on Earth that does science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The same is true of the Beni savanna, it seems, with its different complement of species. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They agreed to stop hunting them when whales were listed as an endangered species. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Were they just varieties, or were they evidence of new species? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The root of the hoary, decumbent, and less elegant, but larger-flowered Hedysarum mackenzii is poisonous, and nearly killed an old Indian woman at Fort Simpson, who had mistaken it for that of the preceding species. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, Amazonians typically do not make the distinction between “cultivated” and “wild” landscapes common in the West; instead they simply classify landscapes into scores of varieties, depending on the types of species in each. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Practice tunnels were being dug willy-nilly owing to the lack of communication between rats and other species. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z If no more DNA copies remain, the species is extinct, just as a company without money is bankrupt. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Combinations of attractants and poisons are being tried against several insect species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The scientists analyzed over 700 samples, each containing an average of over 500 identifiable seeds belonging to over 70 plant species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This department, the second largest at the Ministry of Magic, deals with the varying needs of the many species under its care in a variety of different ways. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That climate selects for plant species able to survive the long dry season and to resume growth rapidly upon the return of the rains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A thing that would simply kill anything in its way, regardless of species. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The wardresses had never known there was even such a species as an African lawyer or doctor, and regarded me as an exotic creature. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Were that to happen, the seedlings might all be killed by a single drought or frost, leaving no seeds to propagate the species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the same time, they tried to encourage these species to grow in number farther away, where they would be useful. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Many animals and human species could previously say, ‘Careful! A lion!’ Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Jomon sites often contain remains of edible plants that are native to Japan as wild species but are also grown as crops today, including adzuki bean, mung bean, and barnyard millet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These also prove to be agents of crowd infectious diseases—but ones confined to various species of our domestic animals and pets! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “If this doesn’t work,” he said aloud, “I’ll have to feed the little eyas. That will change her whole life. “I also might be jailed for harboring an endangered species.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He doesn’t belong to a species clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live in peace with itself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They also left behind us, Homo sapiens, the last human species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Even our own misguided species might re-emerge from the desert. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a couple of centuries, the majority of the local megafauna was extinct, along with 60 per cent of all bird species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m considering adding motion—like a VR fish tank, so you can watch species flit by for hours—when there’s a ping and I have a message. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z So it was with great purpose that, as soon as he sent his volcano book in to his publisher, Charles turned back to the thirty-five-page species draft he had written two summers before at Maer. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z These bigger changes result in the creation of new species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The amount of food available, conditions of weather and climate, the presence of competing or predatory species, all are critically important. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Dead and dying insects of various species were conspicuous for about two weeks after the treatment. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z However, that is not surprising, because modern highland staple crops are plant species that do not leave archaeologically visible residues except under exceptional conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Since Neanderthals and Denisovans contributed only a small amount of DNA to our present-day genome, it is impossible to speak of a ‘merger’ between Sapiens and other human species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Given that the bird or birds seen near my home and supposedly seen all around town were albino species, their bills were just about the color that the Lazarus’s would have been. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Of the 138 known domesticated plant species in the Amazon, more than half are trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Those principles of crop development by artificial selection still serve as our most understandable model of the origin of species by natural selection. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The baby and the orangutan fit right into his theory of the origin of species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he said, "Margaret and I need your help, Nadia. So do the turtles. Sometimes one species has to help another get settled." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z It is a natural tendency for genetically unrelated cells in tissue culture to come together, ignoring species differences, and fuse to form hybrid cells. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like watching one of those nature shows about weird animal species on TV that her dad always got obsessed with. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z There were blue and flat- head catfish, bullheads, four species of sunfish, shiners, dace, stone rollers, largemouth bass, carp, mullet, suckers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And I couldn’t tell you when they stopped repeating, and when it was decreed that every year henceforth would be named after a different species. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “He’s gonna drive us down to the Bronx Zoo. They have over six hundred species. Tigers and gorillas and giraffes, not goats and sheep. They’ve even got panda bears! You’re free on Sunday, right?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z If the humans were aware of a fairy subculture, it was only a matter of time before the two species went to war. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Thus, when the human population became sufficiently large and concentrated, we reached the stage in our history at which we could at last evolve and sustain crowd diseases confined to our own species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The origin of species is an object of inquiry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Five other species appeared to have been wiped out completely. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The real blow came twelve years later, when, as a consequence of a radical taxonomic reshuffle, lepidopterists decided that Pappachi’s moth was in fact a separate species and genus hitherto unknown to science. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Without dogs and cats, there’s more food for humans. My dad says if it weren't for the Barons breaking the law, lots of species would have gone extinct.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The environment selects those few mutations that enhance survival, resulting in a series of slow transformations of one lifeform into another, the origin of new species.* Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So Mr. Brown explained that they would have to be sprayed with one of his special products, which would make the males of the species sterile. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In its habits: It appeareth that Deus omnipotens reproduced not with a female of its own species, but by engendering young upon a female Homo sapiens of a tender age, viz. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Second by second, their fins altered, their bodies grew longer or shorter, and they mutated from species to species. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z My father, dishing out the beef stew, says that a species a day is becoming extinct. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They are home to 130 native species of tree; the whole of Europe has just 85. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z There were, he remembered, something like half a million different species of animal, of which mankind was only one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Of some 70 species of shrubs and vines that are typical roadside species in the eastern states alone, about 65 are important to wildlife as food. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Having in the preceding two chapters discussed why so many wild plant species seemingly suitable for domestication were never domesticated, we shall now tackle the corresponding question for domestic mammals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We developed this way, we grew this way, we are this kind of species. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “What am I going to do with you? I need to figure out what species you are. And I need to find you a bigger home.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It was an ant of exactly the same species, but it came from the other nest It was met by one of the scavenging ants and murdered. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Up until this point, if a natural historian saw variation between creatures thought to be of the same species, he ignored it. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Ninety plant species have disappeared from the balds since the park was opened in the 1930s. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Which makes me think about the many species of animals that have most likely infested these parts, no matter how contaminated the water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Our other caveat concerns the limits that locally available wild species set on the rise of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Over the next several years the two men between them increased the number of known dinosaur species in America from 9 to almost 150. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Think how cool it would be if you were one of the people to make a big discovery. And maybe one of those discoveries could help protect the species.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z They went on to lecture me about 29 types of edible mushroom species, each species’ name in the Foré language, and where in the forest one should look for it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He felt certain just as the earth’s geography was changing, so were new species being created all the time, and God did not have a role in that creation. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Silverfish tunneled through the pages, burrowing arbitrarily from species to species, turning organized information into yellow lace. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, the Mediterranean zone of Chile offered only two of those species, California and southern Africa just one each, and southwestern Australia none at all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The former plants are termed self-incompatible hermaphrodites; the latter, dioecious species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If the descent of species occurred as Darwin suggested, he reasoned, then the implication for human evolution was obvious. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The members of some of these species were massive and others were dwarves. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Eurasia’s native cows, sheep, goats, horses, and pigs were among the world’s few large wild animal species to pass all those tests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They concluded: The “motivation to disclose our internal thoughts and knowledge to others may serve to sustain the behaviors that underlie the extreme sociality of our species.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Various human species had been prowling and evolving in Afro-Asia for 2 million years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Altogether, forty-two species of mammal have disappeared from America’s national parks this century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They spread on their own, sometimes wiping out native species of plants. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “Both species are very high on every birdwatcher’s ‘must see’ list. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z That’s true, for example, of gazelles, which for thousands of years were the most frequently hunted game species in some parts of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If species do change, as Charles felt certain they did, how was that happening? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Around me were seabirds, egrets, and herons, as well as species of murky fish, many of them probably unknown to science, the only evidence of them the occasional spiny fin rising from the surface. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In theory—that is, as a simple physical possibility—an animal could pick up and go, flaunting all the social conventions and boundaries proper to its species. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z This time they drove the Neanderthals and all other human species not only from the Middle East, but from the face of the earth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Not even twenty minutes had passed after we’d scarfed down the entire plate of cookies, when Tamika’s gut interrupted my explanation of mutations in DNA over thousands of generations to create a new species. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Each species depended on the other, and furthermore, it was the oil that made it possible. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But beneath the forest floor is a world honeycombed with the tunnels and runways of small mammals — whitefooted mice, voles, and shrews of various species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Dates of domestication provide a third line of evidence confirming Gabon’s view that early herding peoples quickly domesticated all big mammal species suitable for being domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The world holds only about 148 species of large wild mammalian terrestrial herbivores or omnivores, the large mammals that could he considered candidates for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What is novel, and startling, is that they are mixtures of species. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A newly composed classical opera in the late-twentieth century was like Beluga caviar: a shockingly expensive commodity from an endangered species, accessible to a very privileged few but an inconceivable luxury to the rest. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Of all the species that have adapted to thrive in a world dominated by humans, surely no other has done better than Zea mays. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The first cereal was probably millet—not the millet eaten today, which originated in Africa, but a cousin species, knotweed bristle- grass, which is no longer farmed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The survival of a species also depended upon how successful males and females were in reproducing their lines. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Even among herbivores and omnivores, many species, like koalas, are too finicky in their plant preferences to recommend themselves as farm animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But he felt certain he was right that species were changeable, and were changing. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The danger was recognised in time and the species protected, the most notable factor being the substitution of the Golden Snitch for the Snidget in the game of Quidditch. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The many wild species not represented among the 157 selected are ones that would have been useless or harmful to people, including all of the most toxic weed species in the environment. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A few seeds belong to species traditionally used as sources of dyes or medicine. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Either there was soil deeper down, or this species of tree was a remarkable instance of a commensal or a parasite. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Always, their ranks were made up of humorless civilians culled from the lowest species of southerner that could plug in an electric clipper. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the 200,000 wild plant species, only a few thousand are eaten by humans, and just a few hundred of these have been more or less domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I saw your pictures of them. The women looked like pregnant Gethenians, but with larger breasts. Do they differ much from your sex in mind behavior? Are they like a different species?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Goedart inspired Maria by portraying all stages of a single species of butterfly on the same page. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct, Laurette. No reason to think we humans will be any different!” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The combination of these two factors—a high diversity of species and a high percentage of annuals—means that western Eurasia’s Mediterranean zone is the one with by far the highest diversity of annuals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Naw. He said I’d probably be a scientist one day. Save endangered species and stuff. He called me Dr. Gale all night. It was goofy. And cool.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z That each living thing was specially designed, that one species did not become another, were notions perfectly consistent with what our ancestors with their limited historical records knew about life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the most fascinating of the new methods are those that seek to turn the strength of a species against itself — to use the drive of an insect’s life forces to destroy it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The plaque read: “This species became extinct through the avarice and thoughtlessness of man.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In Africa as elsewhere in the world, some peoples were much “luckier” than others, in the suites of domesticable wild plant and animal species that they inherited from their environment. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Darwin had misclassified them: they were all finches—an astonishing thirteen species. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I liked the thought that three billion bugs fly over my head in a single month in summer or that an inch of soil might contain millions of creatures from thousands of different species. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z One treatment may be sufficient, with a possible follow-up for extremely resistant species; thereafter the shrubs assert control and the trees do not return. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “We are a fallen species, spitting on the gift of salvation. Humanity is irredeemable.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, desperate to keep exploring, and realizing she would never again have this opportunity, Maria pressed on, raising more species, checking her findings, sketching and recording every transformation in her study book. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But, by 8500 BC, the Middle East was peppered with permanent villages such as Jericho, whose inhabitants spent most of their time cultivating a few domesticated species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, when Mr. Sharpe announced his visit to the garret where I played, I was deeply troubled, foreseeing that even this species of expression might be withdrawn. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The third R of the physiology of genes is a word that lies outside common human vocabulary, but is essential to the survival of our species: recombination—the ability to generate new combinations of genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The fastest object ever launched by the human species, it will still take tens of thousands of years to go the distance to the nearest star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The first experiments on reproductive incompatibility and species formation were carried out before the selection experiments, but Dobzhansky and his students continued to work on both problems in the 1940s and 50s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Apparently there are few pure species left, due to bioengineering and cross-pollination. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Surely such a book addressing the origin of species would tell me what to do. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The females of this species lay their eggs in any open wound of a warm-blooded animal. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We can’t possibly hope to examine all the wild plant species of even a circumscribed area like California, and to assess how many of them would have been domesticable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This chapter will begin by considering what a “disease” is, and why some microbes have evolved so as to “make us sick,” whereas most other species of living things don’t make us sick. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They all stared at me like I was some teenaged monster species they’d only read about in horror novels and had no idea were in existence. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z To which conditions was Francis Galton referring, when he spoke of those other species as “destined to perpetual wildness”? The answer follows from the Anna Karenina principle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One of those extinctions, the Great Dying, killed off nine out of ten species on Earth. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In Ka’apor-managed forests, according to Balee’s plant inventories, almost half of the ecologically important species are those used by humans for food. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z No one knows how many species of insects inhabit the earth because so many are yet to be identified. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Because the aids virus’s penetration of the human species was still in its early stages, and the penetration was happening inexorably. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither species regarded the arrangement as novel; they had lived together in Europe for millennia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Going down to the Collaborative Classroom, I was afraid that our whole class would act as the invasive species, sucking up all the happiness with our sour attitudes. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z In all, about 100 species of imported predators and parasites have become established. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He decided to work on a new edition of his Journal of Researches, putting in some more hints about his species view. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Africa’s domesticated animal species can be summarized much more quickly than its plants, because there are so few of them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Only 5 species became widespread and important around the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She suspected that tropical creatures followed the same pattern of transformation she had discovered in so many European species. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And Merlyn had taught him about animals so that the single species might learn by looking at the problems of the thousands. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in London, he talked with Hensleigh about science and religion, working out his thoughts about transmutation of species, about God, and about natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The world is much older than the human species. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We have seen certain species frozen in solid blocks of ice, and yet regain their activity when subjected to the influences of warmth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I was not of their species; I was different. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z And eventually it would mean the end of chickens, cattle, and many of the other domesticated species that at this point depend on us for their continued existence— depend, that is, on us eating them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Asa Gray, in America, also argued for him, although he believed that God created the good variations in species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the bridge repair is urgent, our endangered species, once gone, cannot be brought back. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Leon told them the endangered species were protected by the federal government. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The living room was covered in trucks, train tracks, and every species of toy dinosaur. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The more eastern regions of Asia were populated by Homo erectus, ‘Upright Man’, who survived there for close to 2 million years, making it the most durable human species ever. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The British have already tested a large number of other species for susceptibility to radiation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It makes me feel like a separate species altogether. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars are different species within the genus Panthera. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z By noting which species appeared in which strata, you could work out the relative ages of rocks wherever they appeared. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z If we knew how many species we’ve already eradicated, we might be more motivated to protect those that still survive. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They were nevertheless able to produce stone tools, and even managed occasionally to hunt down some of the island’s elephants—though, to be fair, the elephants were a dwarf species as well. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In one catastrophic event all of them and many, perhaps most, of the other species on the Earth, were destroyed.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the significance of all those species of small domestic animals was trivial compared with that of the big ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I mean it literally: There is at least one species of jellyfish that can grow younger, which is something that pretty much no other creature on Earth can do. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The image of a new species popped into my head: the rare seafaring green orangutan. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Second, if they do know their local plants and animals, do they exploit that knowledge to domesticate the most useful available species, or do cultural factors keep them from doing so? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Can he confiscate an endangered species if somebody has one?” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time I buy them, it’s a reminder that while the Folk can look like us, they are a species apart. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Climbers, as a species, are simply not distinguished by an excess of prudence. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z We do a lot of collective thinking, probably more than any other social species, although it goes on in something like secrecy. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two in Antarctica, although one is underground. Harsh environment. Perfect for certain species, though.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z To be domesticated, a candidate wild species must possess many different characteristics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some species — those existing at the limits of their natural range — might never be able to re-establish themselves, and the others could do so only with the aid of extensive stocking operations by the state. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Capitalizing on Mantell’s enfeebled state, Owen set about systematically expunging Mantell’s contributions from the record, renaming species that Mantell had named years before and claiming credit for their discovery for himself. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One story might serve as the tragic symbol of the fate of the birds — a fate that has already overtaken some species, and that threatens all. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Countless other plants have fruits adapted to being eaten and dispersed by particular species of animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Both species, the human and the monkey, were in the presence of another life form, which was older and more powerful than either of them, and was a dweller in blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The pair of fish that Carole brought from Boston are now swimming happily among the others, and Farmer names the species for me. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In 1871, when Horace was twenty, Charles finally finished his book on the origin of the human species, The Descent of Man. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For the price of a modest meal you can ponder the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, the origin of species, the interpretation of dreams, the nature of things. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She wondered if the diverse butterflies she saw in the yard were among the species Grandpa Sorenson had imported. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But the persistence of the memory of the human species will be far longer in the impressed metal grooves on the Voyager interstellar record. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Although it says nothing about the seeds of the species being edible, it also says nothing about the seeds being toxic. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence Eurasia ended up with its 13 species of big domestic mammals and the Americas with just its one very local species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The list of resistant species now includes practically all of the insect groups of medical importance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He was anxious not because he thought he was wrong about the origin of species, but because he felt sure he was right. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept stealing glances at him across a plate of antelope meat and stale Potato Buds, which I guess just goes to show you how unaccustomed to the male species I have become. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the wild, barley is one of the 4 most abundant of the 23 species, while emmer wheat is of medium abundance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Add to this the biological improbability that makes each member of our own species unique. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re nothing. The human species pretends it is so resilient. Mortal lives are one long game of make-believe. If you couldn’t lie to yourselves, you’d cut your own throats to end your misery.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The passengers looked out the windows at the place where the human species was born. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, four species of big mammals—the goat, sheep, pig, and cow—were domesticated very early in the Fertile Crescent, possibly earlier than any other animal except the dog anywhere else in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then colonizing species like lupine appeared, preparing the ground for the return of the grasses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His birds and Malthus’s theory had given him the mechanism for the transmutation of species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Exploring the meadows and bogs surrounding the castle, she discovered new insects, species she had never seen. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Under wild conditions those are members of their own species, but captive young herd animals also see humans nearby and imprint on humans as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Animals of those same five species, as well as the llama, were used to bear packs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why did he keep this, when all his other specimens were paragons of their species? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Though he was entirely self-taught, never learned Latin, and had scant understanding of Linnaean classifications, he was a prize plant collector, with an uncanny knack for finding and recognizing unknown species. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The spoken word is older than our species, and the instinct for language allows children to engage in articulate conversation years before they enter a schoolhouse. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But always percolating and demanding his attention was Charles’s species book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We cluster in family groups, but we tend, unpredictably, to turn on each other and fight as if we were different species. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a few thousand years the last, lonesome diprotodon would pass away, and with her the entire species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It is an underground traffic zone, a biological mixing point where different species of animals and insects cross one another’s paths in an enclosed air space. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt like some mysterious foreign species he was observing and trying to figure out. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z New Guineans old and young routinely eat mice, spiders, frogs, and other small animals that peoples elsewhere with access to large domestic mammals or large wild game species do not bother to eat. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like Darwin’s finches, the mechanical birds had begun to differentiate themselves, branching into distinct species adapted for success in particular environments. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “My English friends, an endangered species in these days, they say to me, ‘Eva, in Great Britain your “Madame” is too onions-and-béret. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They touched a memory of the right world for a peregrine, a memory as old as her species’ time on earth. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Maybe it would work better if you tried it out on another social species, easier to handle. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The myxo virus, native to a wild species of Brazilian rabbit, had been observed to cause a lethal epidemic in European domestic rabbits, which are a different species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But if the Neanderthals, Denisovans and other human species didn’t merge with Sapiens, why did they vanish? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They had to be cross-pollinated by another plant belonging to a genetically different variety of their species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There he befriended any number and species of animals: dogs, white mice, eagles, lions, boa constrictors, wolves. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Even over the lifetime of the human species—a few million years—constellations have been changing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt a closeness to this pleasant member of her species. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z By i960, every species of wild mammal known to inhabit the area had suffered losses. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The number of generations produced by an insect population in a year is important, and this varies with species and climate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But Charles was even more interested in what Malthuss theory might mean for nature and for the origin of species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Second, many species that live in herds for part of the year are territorial in the breeding season, when they fight and do not tolerate each other’s presence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The individual words are like different species of animals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In biology there is a principle of powerful if imperfect applicability called recapitulation: in our individual embryonic development we retrace the evolutionary history of the species. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But—with God shoved aside—what was the driving force behind the origin of species? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As a rule domesticated plants are less genetically diverse than wild species, because breeders try to breed out characteristics they don't want. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For a new species to arise, then, some factor must arise that makes interbreeding impossible. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z These examples reemphasize that the same few suitable wild species attracted the attention of many different human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Herschel did not have the correct mechanism for the origin of species, but he posed the correct question. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z One abundant and widely ranging species supports the entire commercial fishery of the southern Atlantic and Gulf states. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “If I keep you, the Fish and Wildlife Service will just take you away from me. Maybe even jail me. You’re an endangered species. I can’t harbor an endangered species. I’ve learned that much! “ Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The ants of one species, proceeding jerkily across a path, leave trails that can be followed by their own relatives but not by others. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They belong to the same species as you and me, so that we know that they have feelings like our own. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z In the charred areas behind the fires were the blackened spikes of trees, many of them of species that activists fight to save in other parts of Amazonia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Individuals within a species are constantly competing for scarce resources. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z An era of scepticism was giving way to a new species of Enthusiasm. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He looked at us like we were an alien species. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z All in all, Linnaeus and his followers used Maria’s work—in both Surinam and Europe—to identify at least one hundred species. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Among wild plant and animal species, only a small minority are edible to humans or worth hunting or gathering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, one African melon species is so well adapted to being eaten by a hyena-like animal called the aardvark that most melons of that species grow on the latrine sites of aardvarks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In these four areas the onset of food production provides little or no evidence for the domestication of local plant or animal species, but also little or no evidence for the replacement of human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We have just seen how peoples of some regions began to cultivate wild plant species, a step with momentous unforeseen consequences for their lifestyle and their descendants’ place in history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For some reason the dust had struck that species almost as hard as it had the birds—of which almost none survived now. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Leaving aside species with small or unpalatable seeds, they picked out 23 of the most palatable and largest-seeded wild grasses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, he wasn’t even going to mention that during his time in South America, 2,500 species of birds and nearly five hundred mammals were collected for the American Museum of Natural History. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He was thrilled to see how many small variations there were from barnacle to barnacle, from species to species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But if wild populations with variations in genotype keep interbreeding, Dobzhansky knew, a new species would never be formed: a species, after all, is fundamentally defined by its inability to interbreed with another. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z So were the young stages of several thousand steelhead trout and other species of trout. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The small variations that caused individual birds to survive would be passed down to their offspring, creating—eventually—new, separate species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One species of trilobite that was well known in Europe was also found to have lived on Newfoundland–but only on one side. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A mere dozen species account for over 80 percent of the modern world’s annual tonnage of all crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It may possibly be a new species of vetch,” said Granddaddy. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z As more effort was directed towards cereal cultivation, there was less time to gather and hunt wild species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people around Charles believed that God had not only created all the species of animals at once, but that he had also created the social structure of their world. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a source of satisfaction to be part of the improvement of the species. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Different varieties of the same species replace each other among the kidney beans, lima beans, the chili pepper Capsicum annuum / chinense, and the squash Cucurbita pepo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the reason Native Americans did not domesticate apples lay with the entire suite of wild plant and animal species available to Native Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Without these nursery areas of warm, protected, food- rich waters the populations of these and many other species could not be maintained. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If it were a crime, as some assert but which I deny,” Jackson explained, “the British nation is answerable for it, and not the present inhabitants, who now hold that species of property in question.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Well, some words ending in s are also the same in singular and plural: series, species, and headquarters, which can mean a base or bases. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In a general way we mean how our species’ excessive predatoriness has made the entire planet our prey. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z This unique species, known by scientists as Homo floresiensis, reached a maximum height of only 3.5 feet and weighed no more than fifty-five pounds. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew what he had to say would be shocking to Emma and others who believed that God was the creator of all species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Their children inherited these mutations and thus generated new species, thereby driving evolution. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The Natufians were hunter-gatherers who subsisted on dozens of wild species, but they lived in permanent villages and devoted much of their time to the intensive gathering and processing of wild cereals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They can’t be expected to learn the languages of all the different species they deal with, babbling across the galaxy, some of them speaking in smells or patterned light. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In 1956, only 5 species of these mosquitoes displayed resistance; by early i960 the number had risen from 5 to 28! Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The monkeys were crab-eating monkeys, a species that lives along rivers and in mangrove swamps in Southeast Asia. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, many apparently widespread Native American crops prove to consist of related species or even of genetically distinct varieties of the same species, independently domesticated in Mesoamerica, South America, and the eastern United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead they plucked wild fruits from the forest, painted handprints on the walls, and ate the Amazon’s 1,500 species of fish, especially the 500-pound pirarucju, the world’s biggest freshwater fish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They killed off, directly or indirectly, hundreds of species of birds, insects, snails and other local inhabitants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the distinction of our species, the seat of our humanity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Engineering corn to resist pests wiped the original species from the face of the planet. Laws are too late for that,” she says, her eyes drilling into me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Clearly, they were not completely different species like horses and donkeys. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Zoos are conducting similar breeding programs for many other threatened species, including gorillas and rhinos. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In other species, less compulsively social, the members make their homes together, pool re- sources, travel in packs or schools, and share the food, but any single one can survive solitary, detached from the rest. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the pseudoscience of eugenics, whose many followers believed they could improve the human species through careful breeding. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “A virus can be useful to a species by^ thinning it out.” he said. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Spy-hopping—Great whites, one of a few shark species to regularly lift their heads above the surface to seek prey! The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Several species of mites, for example, can begin life only within the fallen needles of a spruce tree. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When he got it back, seeing his species theory in print— in handwriting other than his own—was scary. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Adventurous hikers cautiously eat mushrooms, aware that many species can kill us. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s also clear that Native Americans of the eastern United States were not overlooking potential major crops among the wild species around them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The two types of animals are consequently considered two distinct species, moving along separate evolutionary paths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We had—or rather Gretchen had—found a way to break down the communication barrier and interlock with another species. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was a perfect setup for an outbreak of a virus that could jump species. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Fish make use of chemical signals for the identification of individual members of a species, and also for the announcement of changes in the status of certain individuals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He acted like an earlier missing link in the human species. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes resistance develops so rapidly that the ink is scarcely dry on a report hailing successful control of a species with some specified chemical when an amended report has to be issued. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I’m the conservation officer. You’re harboring an endangered species—a peregrine falcon.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in 1959, with more than 100 major insect species showing definite resistance to chemicals, one of the leading journals in the field of agricultural chemistry spoke of “real or imagined” insect resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If, on the other hand, these new methods result in the disappearance of species, such as whales, then that is bad. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Like he had at last met someone of his own species. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Or how, for that matter, does one member of a species “know” that it is a member of that species and not another? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was not until he wrote this book that he used the word evolution to describe how species change. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Vestiges' argument included fossils, the development of embryos, similarities in anatomy among species, and even behavior, just as Charles did. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The story of the trout is important for many reasons, but chiefly as an example of what can happen when a potent carcinogen is introduced into the enviroment of any species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I’m not even a member of your species.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In some species, the members are so tied to each other and interdependent as to seem the loosely conjoined cells of a tissue. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no way she and Mamma were related; they may as well have been two entirely different species. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z At best, however, these three domesticated animal species provided only occasional meals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You want to protect those of your own species. It’s a natural instinct.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He had much to report in his book, including his fossil discoveries, and discoveries of previously unknown species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And he kept discovering new species of barnacle. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Minnows and catfish can recognize each member of their own species by his particular, person-specific odor. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With the new organic chemicals and new methods for their intensive application, resistance began a meteoric rise that reached the alarming level of 137 species in i960. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In all, archaeologists sifting through Jomon garbage have identified 64 species of edible plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While most solitary territorial species thus haven’t been domesticated, it’s not conversely the case that most herd species can be domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Gregor thought they would do what was best for their species, and the rats were probably the stronger ally. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Thus it is no accident that our most troublesome insects are introduced species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Animals are said to belong to the same species if they tend to mate with each other, giving birth to fertile offspring. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I get well enough, when I can walk farther, we can learn how to mill it. The important thing is not to let the species die out.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z To be seen across the worlds, by species circling more than thirteen suns. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The policy was supported by the Dutch Reform Church, which furnished apartheid with its religious underpinnings by suggesting that Afrikaners were God’s chosen people and that blacks were a subservient species. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to their extinctions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Theodor, in a series of elegant experiments, has shown that when two individuals of the same species are placed in close contact, the smaller of the two will always begin to disintegrate. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I should think a person confiscating an endangered species would certainly have to show a person his authority to take the bird. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of biology. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If our species has existed for a couple of million years, what is its history? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the earliest identified crops were two drought-resistant species of millet in North China, but rice in South China, suggesting the possibility of separate northern and southern centers of plant domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, different species of monkeys were muted together. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z How could any species survive the snow if the word for it died out? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It’s thus straightforward to review a region’s big mammals and to test whether the lack of mammal domestication in some regions was due to the unavailability of suitable wild species, rather than to local peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. V, as promised, writes down names of species and takes pictures so I can remember when we get back home. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Although a slightly smaller plant, wild sweet pea looks so much like wild potato that even expert botanists sometimes have trouble telling the species apart. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Society called attention to the great variety of species of fish and other forms of life inhabiting the southeastern part of the United States, including species that occur nowhere else in the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z While 157 species sounds like indiscriminate collecting, many more species growing wild in the vicinity were absent from the charred remains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Calpurnia and I may have discovered a new species of plant.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Lourdes studies the colors wrestling to unravel, flaring like certain male species of birds. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She arranges them by species whenever she can, then by size. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Both had dramatic vistas over rolling lawns and tall trees, but the students here were almost a different species. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z No previous human species had managed to penetrate places like northern Siberia. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only a human wouldn’t be. Your species is clogging up the world so fast. . . ah, never mind. It’s useless to lecture a human. At the rate things are going, I’ll never find Pan.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Then there is hiv—which is very much an emerging virus, because its penetration of the human species is increasing rapidly, with no end in sight. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There are dozens of species of bacteria living in Earth soil, and they're critical to plant growth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Hannibal enlisted tamed African elephants in his unsuccessful war against Rome, and ancient Egyptians may have tamed giraffes and other species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The near-simultaneous disappearance of so many large species raises an obvious question: what caused it? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Now, in many areas and among many species only the strong and fit remain to defy our efforts to control them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z First, herds of many species don’t have overlapping home ranges but instead maintain exclusive territories against other herds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By 1948 both species had become so well established that no further importations were needed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z By then, all of the world’s 148 candidate big species must have been tested innumerable times, with the result that only a few passed the test and no other suitable ones remained. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nearly all species of warblers present in the area were represented in the heavy kill that followed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For example, peas belong to the genus Pisum, which consists of two wild species: Pisum sativum, the one that became domesticated to yield our garden peas, and Pisum fulvum, which was never domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The patch was a different color and plant species, but it worked. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z One important natural check is a limit on the amount oT~suitable habitat for each species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Whatever the origin, people domesticated the species thousands of years ago and then spread it rapidly, first through Amazonia and then up into the Caribbean and Central America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The chemicals may have been pretested against a few individual species, but not against living communities. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Other species are slower, less nervous, seek protection in herds, stand their ground when threatened, and don’t run until necessary. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Back home, when I used to sit in my garden, I liked to observe birds, and not just the green-rumped parrots but also the migrating species. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Because the chromosome number for a given species is constant, the egg and the sperm, which are to unite to form a new individual, must carry to their union only half the species number. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There are several different species—Levi was one of the smaller varieties. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Closely related species replace each other geographically among the amaranths, beans, chenopods, chili peppers, cottons, squashes, and tobaccos. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Maize can't reproduce itself, because its kernels are securely wrapped in the husk, so Indians must have developed it from some other species. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The aloofness displayed for each other by members of the marine coelenterate species of Gorgonaceae suggests that mechanisms for preserving individuality must have existed long before the evolution of immunity. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet counting all species together, there were still no more than perhaps a million humans living between the Indonesian archipelago and the Iberian peninsula, a mere blip on the ecological radar. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the wild plant species from which our crops were derived vary genetically from area to area, because alternative mutations had become established among the wild ancestral populations of different areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In theory, it could amplify itself around the world in the human species. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some species of oak release a chemical that tells other oaks in the vicinity that an attack is under way. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The Moon controlled the tides, the life cycles of many animals, and perhaps the human menstrual' period—of central importance for a passionate species devoted to having children. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In a sense, the earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In scientific terms, though, Tyson is regarded as the founding father of comparative anatomy, which looks at the physical relationships between different species. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It was said that he could describe the look and nature of an animal from a single tooth or scrap of jaw, and often name the species and genus into the bargain. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z African and European skulls of half a million years ago were sufficiently similar to skulls of us moderns that they are classified in our species, Homo sapiens, instead of in Homo erectus. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Scientific journals had already recorded some 50 species involved in violent dislocations of nature’s balance by 1958. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Among the thirty-one species of Abrams Creek fish that were wiped out was one called the smoky madtom, which scientists had never seen before. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “The composition of the human species is infinitely more diverse than most humans suspect,” she began. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Those few species lived in particular places, and those are the places where agricultural revolutions occurred. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-seven species, ranging in size from dragons to Bundimuns, were to be hidden from Muggles so as to create the illusion that they had never existed outside the imagination. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The origin of species is an object of experimental investigation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The seeds of many wild plant species actually must pass through an animal’s gut before they can germinate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They fish for tourists now, not pilchards, and that species they are not likely to wipe out. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, they were not just different populations of the same species, like bulldogs and spaniels. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the Cambrian explosion species seem to have succeeded one another rather slowly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ecology Club is planning a rally to protest the “degrading of an endangered species.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Although I knew the fireflies would return in a year, it felt like the extinction of a species. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z For nearly the entire history of our species, Sapiens lived as foragers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A nice place for a virus to jump species. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the twenty-four Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, twenty-three became extinct. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They connect with other members of their species only to mate, and even that happens without fuss. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But in western Eurasia only one of several potentially useful wild species was domesticated—probably because that one spread so quickly that people soon stopped gathering the other wild relatives and ate only the crop. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Several hundred species of wild bees take part in the pollination of cultivated crops — 100 species visiting the flowers of alfalfa alone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Or it may be that we have found an entirely new species.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But in the sixth century B.C., in Ionia, a new concept developed, one of the great ideas of the human species. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But how lucky, when you think about it, that these diseases are at least species specific. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Yet it did bestow something on Homo sapiens as a species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As with language, the system is governed by genes, and there are genetic differences between species and between inbred animals of the same species. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And of course every species now on the planet once did not exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d rather trust a bunch of humans not to hunt a species to extinction than trust an LEP consultant, thought Mulch. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “It is a beautiful part of my theory that domesticated races ... are made by precisely the same means as species.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They were like a troupe of great, strange animals, of two different species; great apes with intelligent eyes, all of them in hit, in kemmer....They took my hand, touched me, held me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In the following chapters we will see time and again how a dramatic increase in the collective power and ostensible success of our species went hand in hand with much individual suffering. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Until Columbus, Indians were a keystone species in most of the hemisphere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Thus, Park Service biologists managed the wonderfully unusual accomplishment of discovering and eradicating in the same instant a new species of fish. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Nor do many species of animals live in this rigorous land, but those creatures that do dwell here exist in bountiful numbers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We are used to thinking about ourselves as the only humans, because for the last 10,000 years, our species has indeed been the only human species around. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But all six Cahokia projects found plenty of bird bones, and even some tiny bones from fish; one turned up 9,053 bones from 72 bird species. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They can be expected to have discovered and tested any wild plant species worth domesticating. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Pickett himself was a pioneer in the field of working out sane methods of insect control that take full advantage of the predatory and parasitic species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It seems especially hard, even perilous, for this to be the burden of a species with the unique attribute of speech, and argument. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t know much about snake species, but he was almost certain he knew what these were. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It must have been made with the combined efforts of several species in better times. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She was absolutely intrigued by them at this time in her life and remembered every pattern of the flight of each species. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Ones that might get out in the world and taint the original species? Is that what you mean?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He knew that these doubts and his revolutionary thoughts about transmutation and the creation of species would stand in his way of finding a wife. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Invasive species are organisms that are introduced into a new environment. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z The more intelligent of the species have been trained as guardians. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A parent, after all, is the steward of another creature’s life, a creature who in the beginning is more helpless than the newborn of nearly any other species. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z We can thus be sure that it was indeed possible to develop the wild plant into a useful crop, and we have to ask why that wild species was not domesticated in certain areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, the New World presents many cases of equivalent and closely related, but nevertheless distinct, species having been domesticated in Mesoamerica and South America. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Over the past 10,000 years, Homo sapiens has grown so accustomed to being the only human species that it’s hard for us to conceive of any other possibility. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z These survivors then reproduce to make more of their kind, thereby driving evolutionary change within a species. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This was the missing link in Darwin's logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Almost forty species of cotton exist worldwide, of which four have been domesticated, two in the Americas, two in the Middle East and South Asia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There, like Darwin, he observed astonishing differences between closely related species that had been separated by channels of water. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Right? Someone doesn’t kill off an entire species for no reason.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Were all little brothers this annoying, or was he just blessed with an especially potent member of the species? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z We disagree sometimes, but that is the way of all friends, no matter their species. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But life is hardy, and when the smoke cleared there were enough lucky survivors from every species that none permanently perished. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He was her adventurer who would bring back exotic species—he had dated a Japanese girl, a Venezuelan girl—but would, with time, settle down properly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The Dutch physician Jan Swammerdam dissected countless insect specimens to help dispel the notion that each phase of an insect was a completely different species of animal. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Charles was busy working on his species book—he had hundreds of pages written—though he still was in no rush to get it done. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason is simple: most species of plants and animals can’t be domesticated. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Were those naive villagers collecting every type of seed plant that they found, bringing it home, poisoning themselves on most of the species, and nourishing themselves from only a few species? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was like our species was going to die out if we didn’t mate and carry on. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Of the billions and billions of species of living thing that have existed since the dawn of time, most–99.99 percent–are no longer around. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Many animals, including all ape and monkey species, have vocal languages. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Piled high everywhere was junk, metal skeletons of forgotten species. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z In short, our interaction with most species, as exemplified by hummingbirds, doesn’t make us or the hummingbird “sick.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Of the thousands of species that our ancestors hunted and gathered, only a few were suitable candidates for farming and herding. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "There's a species of woman here who's waked the whole street up. What kind of a dirty business at this time of night! She says she must see you. I've told her you're asleep." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Hi,” I say, feeling like a completely different species from this girl. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z And in many alkaloid-producing species, moreover, the toxin is strictly localized within the plant. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, yes. Our three pioneers. Their sacrifice was necessary— all for the sake of progress, my dears. What we’re trying to do is advance the peculiar species, you see.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The idea is that about 15,000 years ago a chance mutation let the virus “jump the species barrier,” as scientists say, and infect human beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Parzival: The female of the species has always found me repellent. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Indeed, it occurs so infrequently and involves such a relatively small number of species, considering the huge population of bacteria on the earth, that it has a freakish aspect. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A large number of smaller species also disappeared. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the pressure comes from our biologic success as a species. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Since that time 24 species of parasites of the corn borer have been brought in from Europe and the Orient at considerable expense. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Normally, the type specimen of a species is the first set of bones found, but since no first set of Homo sapiens bones exists, there was a vacancy, which Cope desired to fill. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One angry minister said that women’s rights advocates were “a hybrid species, half man and half woman, belonging to neither sex.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He took out some paper and a soft pencil and wrote down a rough argument for the mutability of species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the egg parasites are exceedingly minute wasps, yet by their numbers and their great activity they hold down the abundance of many crop-destroying species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes it was hell to conceal her impatience over the male of the species’ general ineptness, and Lane’s in particular. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Meanwhile as Charles worked hard, not only on his geology, but also on his ideas about the transmutation of species, the more he learned, the more skeptical he became about religion. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z No one can own the species called “corn.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Van Valen explained this idea years later, saying, “HeLa cells are evolving separately from humans, and having a separate evolution is really what a species is all about.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A new consciousness is developing which recognizes that we are one species. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He says, waving his fork, that if we continue to overbreed as a species, a new epidemic will arise to redress the balance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He does not hunt elephants anymore—he approves of the current worldwide ban on ivory—but he does hunt Cape buffalo, which is not an endangered species. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Though she did not know the scientific names of her insects—these species were unknown in Europe—she decided she did not really care. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It doesn’t bode well for the survival of the species. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z First, do hunter-gatherers and incipient farmers really know well all locally available wild species and their uses, or might they have overlooked potential ancestors of valuable crops? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At about the time of Clovis—between 13,800 and 11,400 years ago, according to a 2009 study—almost every one of these species vanished. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The human species is now undertaking a great venture that if successful will be as important as the colonization of the land or the descent from the trees. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It also made it inconveniently necessary to explain how some species were wiped out while others continued unimpeded into succeeding eons. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Such cooperation was one of the important trademarks of Homo sapiens, and gave it a crucial edge over other human species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Domestic races of the same species...often have a somewhat monstrous character....They often differ in an extreme degree in some one part.... The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The numerical success of the calf’s species is little consolation for the suffering the individual endures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Within 2,000 years of the Sapiens arrival, most of these unique species were gone. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As far as plants are concerned, we’re just one of thousands of animal species that unconsciously “domesticate” plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The United States Office of Plant Introduction alone has introduced almost 200,000 species and varieties of plants from all over the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That rapid spread preempted opportunities for domesticating those and related species in the Balkans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How did we push all other human species into oblivion? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If we were to succeed, the history of our species and our planet would be changed forever. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, the Americas had only one species of big domestic mammal, the llama / alpaca, confined to a small area of the Andes and the adjacent Peruvian coast. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The tropical rain forests are the deep reservoirs of life on the planet, containing most of the world’s plant and animal species. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Lions, for example, are called Panthera leo, the species leo of the genus Panthera. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Interaction between the male species and the female species was varied and intense and highly unpredictable. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z As participants, we have no choice in the matter; this is what we do as a species. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He says that when a species becomes extinct, some other species moves in to fill up the ecological niche, because Nature abhors a vacuum. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z This account of some species of republic among the Egba was unwelcome as gall; providing the bitterness of doubt when I longed for the balm of reassurance. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I think it was another species of cricket that was meant. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z To work out his species theory he had to become adept at describing at least one creature in minute detail. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There are not many men who will laboriously examine internal and important organs, and compare them in many specimens of the same species. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Believe it or not, droppings don’t come stamped with a species label,” Dad deadpans. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z If something is possible for a genus, then it’s possible for a species: that is, if something’s true of insects, it’s true of ants. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Aggressive behavior, Nina Murray said, is natural to the species. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “But no one looked at the effects of these new species intermingling with native populations? That’s the danger, isn’t it?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z And the mockingbirds that were endemic to each island were also three distinct species. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This means that in terms of the number of species, 70 to 80 per cent of the earth’s creatures are insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He told her about the monks of Mount Athos, who in their zeal for purity banned not only women from their island monastery but the females of every other species, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Countries reporting resistance among a large number of other species represent every continent and most of the island groups. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the Pleistocene, the Americas had three species of horse and at least two camels that might have been ridden; other mammals could have been domesticated for meat and milk. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s not just mass extinctions that wipe out species, either. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Some 45 species of birds include earthworms in their diet. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He was describing them in minute detail, so as to understand the similarities and differences between the different species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But no gazelle species has ever been domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For a thousand years, give or take, the word man did double duty as a term for both the male of the species and the species as a whole. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He told me about Linnaeus and his system for naming all living things in Nature and how we still followed this system whenever we named a new species. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They were the same species—it was tigers against men. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z And he looked at how people changed animal species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Like being Black is a whole different species. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z I began looking at field guides to help me identify all the different unfamiliar species. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Might there not be an even more elaborate effort by an older and wiser species, courageously battling the advance of desiccation on the red planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The author argued that species were transforming all the time. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s also a waste of effort to grow them from seed, since the offspring even of an outstanding individual tree of those species are highly variable and mostly yield worthless fruit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Name for me five species that generate neurotoxins powerful enough to be effective on a poison-tipped dart.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z What kind of cultures, societies and political structures would have emerged in a world where several different human species coexisted? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If the rains failed or clouds of locusts arrived or if a fungus infected that staple species, peasants died by the thousands and millions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Smokies hunted, but they were like the rangers, killing only species that didn’t belong in this part of the world or that had gotten out of control thanks to the Rusties’ meddling. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Or perhaps we are only at the beginning of learning to use the system, with almost all our evolution as a species still ahead of us. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Australia, the smallest and most isolated continent, has always had far fewer species of big wild mammals than has Eurasia, Africa, or the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like other species of salmon, the Coho has a strong homing instinct, returning to its natal stream. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I remember sitting at the dinner table, with Cordelia, his warnings washing over our heads, the ruined water, the poisoned trees, species after species snuffed out like stepped-on ants. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I am struck by the word species, by the idea that he thinks I am something entirely else, like an ant or a dog or a deer. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Since the fifteenth century, Europeans have spread around the globe and encountered wild mammal species not found in Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This record is unlikely to be broken even by our own species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We might contemplate a separate creation of each atomic species. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Would Karl Marx have urged workers of all species to unite? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After trials of several species, 3 billion eggs of an Argentine moth were released in Australia in 1930. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z You must be prepared to change everything about yourself–shape, size, color, species affiliation, everything–and to do so repeatedly. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A local species of squash provided small containers, as well as yielding edible seeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Six species of cotton insects, along with an assortment of thrips, fruit moths, leaf hoppers, caterpillars, mites, aphids, wireworms, and many others now are able to ignore the farmer’s assault with chemical sprays. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Even more awkwardly anomalous was another species of trilobite found in Europe and the Pacific Northwest but nowhere in between, which would have required not so much a land bridge as a flyover. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Biologists label organisms with a two-part Latin name, genus followed by species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Presently I noticed a bird that was unmistakably a species of babbler, but it seemed enormous compared with any known babbler species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The preserves are the final refuge for many ancient and wonderful species,” Grandpa said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z And didn’t the discoverer of a brand-new species get to put her name on it? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I am certain—I mean, I just know—that all these different species are playing together, calling around one another’s noises. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It means he didn’t carelessly confuse one species with another. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Why Eurasia’s pigs, but not American peccaries or Africa’s three species of true wild pigs? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, in a given environment, animals of the same species will tend to behave in a similar way. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, not all 13 of these wild ancestral species occurred together throughout Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is important, and although such programs might well include the resistant European elms, they should aim at a variety of species so that no future epidemic could deprive a community of its trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Today it covers more acres of the country than any other living species, including human beings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We humans, as a species, are interested in communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The 1965 Ban on Experimental Breeding has made the creation of new species illegal. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z How could a plant take over our food chain and push out almost every other species? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In summer they provide nesting areas for waterfowl, especially for two endangered species, the redhead and the ruddy duck. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Old species die out; new species are created. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Sub-Saharan Africa has fewer candidates, 51 species, just as it has fewer species in most other plant and animal groups—because it’s smaller and ecologically less diverse than Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He then got just what he needed: The bird let out a loud call that, according to the National Ornithological Institute, is unique to that particular species. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Less well known are Africa’s combination of sorghum, African rice, and pearl millet with cowpeas and groundnuts, and the Andes’ combination of the noncereal grain quinoa with several bean species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They look as if they belong to the same species, and yet they hate each other. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z As a result, it has a high diversity of wild plant and animal species, higher than in the comparatively tiny Mediterranean zones of southwestern Australia and Chile. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Maize is one of the few farm species that is more diverse than most wild plants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Naturally, food producers, especially early ones, continued to gather some wild plants and hunt wild animals, so the food remains at their sites often include wild species as well as domesticated ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As the years went by, Webb found other members of his own species—a dork here, a nerd there. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z All of these species still exist; one could stock a specialty restaurant with them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Now in the spring of 1842, the family made a trip to Maer, where Charles, freed from his coral reefs, started to think again about his species theory. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “All life is interconnected. If one species moves away or becomes extinct, the order shifts,” said Vern. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z His own species book had suffered a serious blow, if not a sudden death. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If you look at any species of primate — at every variety of monkey and ape — the larger their neocortex is, the larger the average size of the groups they live with. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She worked for Mikayla’s mom in a lab at Lancaster University and did all these scientific things, talking about plants and genus and species all the time. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z After some hours a member of my own species found me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z About 70,000 years ago, organisms belonging to the species Homo sapiens started to form even more elaborate structures called cultures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He was hinting here, in print, about the transmutation of species, about how new species were created, by adapting to their surroundings, by the means of natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But the net result has been to bind the Earth together, to decrease provincialism, to unify the human species and to advance powerfully our knowledge of our planet and ourselves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, paleontologists learned that about two-thirds of the species that vanished did so a little before Clovis appears in the archaeological record. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Even a generation ago no one knew that to fill large areas with a single species of tree was to invite disaster. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Even as taxonomy—the classification of plant and animal species—flourished, inquiries into the origin of living beings were relegated to the forbidden sidelines. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Another means is the shipment of plants carrying the egg masses, the form in which the species exists over winter. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z However, if violence broke out between the two species, Neanderthals were not much better off than wild horses. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Some species are nervous, fast, and programmed for instant flight when they perceive a threat. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If a species boasts many DNA copies, it is a success, and the species flourishes. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Genetic analysis proved that the finger belonged to a previously unknown human species, which was named Homo denisova. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But where were the others— the ones who would be proud they were of a species with the gray man—the ones whose arms would ache to gather up the small, scared black mite? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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