The Modern Origins of Traditional Agriculture

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

The Benefits of Modern Agriculture

Origins of Modern Europeans

Over the past ten years the analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has become widespread when dealing with very low quantities of and/or highly degraded DNA. The advantages of mtDNA for this type of analysis have been well documented including its high copy number, which improves the chance of retrieving DNA, and its highly polymorphic, and therefore informative nature. In addition to forensic s...

Plant Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture

Origins of Modern Biology

The new book has three parts, consisting of bacterial physiology, im-munology, and virology. The aim is to provide a text for college and graduate students taking general microbiology or immunology. It reduces the bulk and expense of the parent volume by deleting chapters on antimicrobial defences of the host and pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and viruses. The main emphasis is on molecular genetic...