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Serier Bog 21 - New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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Origins & Symbiotic “Doubling”

Nuestro cuerpo

Microbial Life History

Living on Earth

The Stone Age

Fundamentals of Developmental Psychobiology

Why Is Sex Fun?

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

Transcendence

Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism

In Search of Cell History

Human Population Genetics

A Pocket History of Human Evolution

Systematics and the Exploration of Life

Archean and Proterozoic Earth

Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record

A Hidden Legacy

Animal Movement Across Scales

Approaches to Plant Evolutionary Ecology

Charles Darwin's Life With Birds

Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons

Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle

Making Faces

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