El cambio climático. Una realidad

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

This comprehensive series of volumes on inorganic chemistry provides inorganic chemists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Every volume reports recent progress with a significant, up-to-date selection of papers by internationally recognized researchers, complemented by detailed discussions and complete documentation. Each volume features a complete subject index and the series includes a cumulative index as well.

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.

En los sótanos del museo de Ciencia e Industria de Manchester hay una caja de cristal con unas pequeñas virutas que parecen fragmentos de piel seca. Estos restos son lo que queda de los globos oculares de John Dalton, el padre de la teoría atómica y el primer científico en describir la ceguera al color. Dalton dejó encargado a su médico personal que tras su muerte le extrajera los ojos y los «desnudara» para aclarar un misterio que no pudo resolver en vida: ¿por qué él veía el mundo de manera distinta a los demás? A partir de esta anécdota, y con la vida de Dalton como hilo...