Pandora's Seed

Author: Spencer Wells
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679603743
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Ten thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells demonstrates that such a dramatic change in lifestyle had a downside that we’re only now beginning to recognize. Growing grain crops ultimately made humans more sedentary and unhealthy and made the planet more crowded. The expanding population and the need to apportion limited resources created hierarchies and inequalities. Freedom of movement was replaced by a pressure to work that is the forebear of the anxiety millions feel today. Spencer Wells offers a hopeful prescription for altering a life to which we were always ill-suited. Pandora’s Seed is an eye-opening book for anyone fascinated by the past and concerned about the future.

Pandora's Seed

Author: Spencer Wells
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812971914
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Deep Ancestry

Author: Spencer Wells
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426202113
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
Travel backward through time from today's scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all. In Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how tiny genetic changes add up over time into a fascinating story. Using scores of real-life examples, helpful analogies, and detailed diagrams and illustrations, he explains exactly how each and every individual's DNA contributes another piece to the jigsaw puzzle of human history. The book takes readers inside the Genographic Project—the landmark study now assembling the world's largest collection of DNA samples and employing the latest in testing technology and computer analysis to examine hundreds of thousand of genetic profiles from all over the globe—and invites us all to take part.

Pandora's Potatoes

Author: Caius Rommens
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986600835
Category : Crops
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
-THIS BOOK HAS SERVED ITS FUNCTION AND IS RETIRED-GMO potatoes are quietly entering the market place with innocuous names such as Innate, White, and Hibernate. They are suggested to have maintained all the original traits of normal potatoes and to have gained three new traits: enhanced disease resistance, enhanced uniformity, and enhanced healthiness. However, the reality is different. As a crop, the potatoes contain genetically unstable traits, two of which appear to have been lost already (or are in the process of being lost), suffer a significant yield drag and reduction in size profile, conceal bruises and potentially spread diseases, may be grown and stored in ways that maximize disease and pest pressures, and were developed through an act of biopiracy. As a processed food, they lost the sensory attributes that make normal potato foods so attractive, and they are also likely to contain new toxins. If it were up to me, the creator of these potatoes, I would call them Pandora's Potatoes. They are the worst GMOs ever commercialized.

The Journey of Man

Author: Spencer Wells
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307830454
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans share a single prehistoric ancestor, do we come in so many sizes, shapes, and races? Examining the hidden secrets of human evolution in our genetic code, Spencer Wells reveals how developments in the revolutionary science of population genetics have made it possible to create a family tree for the whole of humanity. Replete with marvelous anecdotes and remarkable information, from the truth about the real Adam and Eve to the way differing racial types emerged, The Journey of Man is an enthralling, epic tour through the history and development of early humankind.

Pandora's Box

Author: Nancy Lublin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847686377
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
This is the fourth lesson in the series "Little Music Lessons for Kids" where you can help your child to learn the space musical notes fast and easy.Four musical notes like to meet in a beauty salon every day. Day by day, these musical notes spend their time painting their eyelashes, lips, cheeks and eyebrows.Suddenly, one of the notes reads an ad on a truck. From this ad, she finds out about free apartments available in the musical house. The beauty-note jumps out of the salon and runs to the treble staff; the other three musical notes follow her.But here is the bad news: All the apartments are already full! The beauty-notes come up with an original idea and finally get their new apartments. Your child must hear this story!

Pandora's Box

Author: Osamu Dazai
Publisher: Shelley Marshall
ISBN: 1959002007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description
The war is over. Japan is defeated. Together with his country, a young man must rebuild his life. To recover from illness, he retreats to a quirky sanatorium in the mountains. At this unusual institution, where everyone gets a nickname, he is surrounded by a delightful ensemble of patients and caregivers.

What Is Sign Language?

Author: Deborah Kent
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766037717
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
"Begins with the story of Beanca, a girl who was born deaf and uses American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate, and then goes on to explain the history of ASL"--Provided by publisher.

Pandora Gets Lazy

Author: Carolyn Hennesy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599906066
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
Pandora and her BFFs are off to the Atlas Mountains in search of the next of the seven evils she released into the world. But before she finds a hint of Laziness, Pandy is separated from her friends and left totally alone in the middle of nowhere! With the fate of the world (still) in her hands, Pandy must rely on her own strengths (and a little help from Olympus to capture Laziness. Humor, light fantasy, and Pandora's newfound confidence feature in this third adventure from Carolyn Hennesy

What Is Braille?

Author: Deborah Kent
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766037700
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
"Discusses the history of Braille and how the blind community uses it in everyday life"--