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Some results of inbreeding grade Guernsey and grade Holstein-Friesian cattle / by Woodward, T. E.(Thompson Elwyn)(CARDINAL)314568; Graves, R. R.(CARDINAL)314567;
Subjects: Dairy cattle;
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Wrong turn [videorecording] / by Bartley, John S.; Booth, Lindy,1979-; Chriqui, Emmanuelle,1977-; Clark, Ted.(CARDINAL)713713; Cmiral, Elia.; Dushku, Eliza,1980-; Feig, Erik.; Gilbert, Brian.; Harrington, Desmond,1976-; Keywan, Alicia.; Kulzer, Robert.; McElroy, Alan.; Richings, Julian.; Robbins, Gary.; Ross, Michael.(CARDINAL)434145; Schmidt, Rob,1965-; Sisto, Jeremy,1974-(CARDINAL)348520; Winston, Stan,1946-; Yarhi, Georgina.; Zegers, Kevin,1984-(CARDINAL)815121; Constantin Film (Firm)(CARDINAL)346628; MC One (Firm); Newmarket Capital Group LP.(CARDINAL)807316; Stan Winston Studio (Firm); Summit Entertainment.(CARDINAL)340673; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.(CARDINAL)340075;
Director of photography, John S. Bartley ; editor, Michael Ross ; music, Elia Cmiral ; costume designer, Georgina Yarhi ; production designer, Alicia Keywan ; special make-up effects created and designed by Stan Winston Studio.Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Lindy Booth, Julian Richings, Gary Robbins, Ted Clark, Kevin Zegers.Chris is driving through West Virginia. He takes a detour down an old dirt road, where he becomes distracted and doesn't see an SUV stuck in the middle of the road. He plows into the back after his tires suddenly blow. The driver of the SUV and Chris compare notes on their accidents, they discover that the road has been sabotaged with barbed wire. Two of the group are left to look after the cars while the others set out to find help. However, they soon discover they've become prey to a family of cannibalistic mountain men who have become horribly disfigured through generation of in-breeding.MPAA rating: R; for strong violence and gore, some language and drug use.DVD, Region 1 encoding, Dolby digital, 5.1 Dolby surround.
Subjects: Feature films.; Horror films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Cannibalism; Inbreeding; Young adults;
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Dark Eden / by Beckett, Chris,1955-author.(CARDINAL)353534;
On the alien, sunless planet they call Eden, the 532 members of the Family take shelter beneath the light and warth of the Forest's lantern trees. Beyond the Forest lie the mountains of the Snowy Dark and a cold so bitter and a night so profound that no man has ever crossed it. The Oldest among the Family recount legends of a world where light came from the sky, where men and women made boats that could cross the stars. These ships brought us here, the Oldest say - and the Family must only wait for the travelers to return. But young John Redlantern will break the laws of Eden, shatter the Family, and change history. He will abandon the old ways, venture into the Dark ... and discover the truth about their world. -- Back cover.
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; Science fiction.; Abnormalities, Human; Inbreeding; Life on other planets; Space colonies;
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Inbreeding depression in metrical traits of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda, L.) as a result of self-pollination / by Franklin, E. Carlyle.(CARDINAL)164069;
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 19).
Subjects: Loblolly pine.; Seed orchards; Plant genetics.;
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Our political nature : the evolutionary origins of what divides us / by Tuschman, Avi,1979-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Searching for the origin of political identity -- The Burning Man of Tunisia -- The Universal Political Animal -- What Economics Can and Cannot Predict -- The Invention of the Political Litmus Test -- Unearthing the Three Roots of Political Orientation -- Part One: Tribalism on the political spectrum -- Ethnocentrism vs. Xenophilia -- Religiosity vs. Secularism -- Attitudes toward Sexuality, Homosexuality, and Gender Roles -- Part Two: The biology of tribalism -- When Outbreeding Is Fit and Inbreeding Isn't -- When Inbreeding Is Fit and Outbreeding Isn't -- How Optimal Mating Happens -- Why Gender Inequality and Fertility Change across Human History -- The Biology of War and Genocide -- Part Three: Do we live in a just world? -- Attitudes toward inequality and authority in society -- Attitudes toward inezuality and authority within the family -- Part Four: The biology of family conflict -- Why sibling conflict occors and polarizes political personalities -- Part Five: Are people by nature cooperative or competitive? -- Sages through the Ages -- Do Perceptions of Human Nature Change as We Age? -- Part Six: Illumination our true human nature -- The Conservative Altruism: Kin Selection -- The Liberal Altruism: Reciprocity -- Altruism across the Lifespan: The Neurological Development of Cynicism -- The Altruism That Isn't: Self-Deception among People and Politicians -- The Enigmatic Altruism of Heroic Rescuers"The first book to tell the natural history of political orientations. Our Political Nature is the first book to reveal the hidden roots of our most deeply held moral values. It shows how political orientations across space and time arise from three clusters of measurable personality traits. These clusters entail opposing attitudes toward tribalism, inequality, and differing perceptions of human nature. Together, these traits are by far the most powerful cause of left-right voting, even leading people to regularly vote against their economic interests. As this book explains, our political personalities also influence our likely choice of a mate, and shape society's larger reproductive patterns. Most importantly of all, it tells the evolutionary stories of these crucial personality traits, which stem from epic biological conflicts. Based on dozens of exciting new insights from primatology, genetics, neuroscience, and anthropology, this groundbreaking work brings core concepts to life through current news stories and personalities. For instance, readers will meet Glenn Beck and Hugo Chavez and come to understand the underlying evolutionary forces they represent. By blending serious research with relevant contemporary examples, Our Political Nature casts important light onto the ideological clashes that so dangerously divide and imperil our world today"--
Subjects: Personality and politics.; Social psychology.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General.; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.;
© 2013., Prometheus Books,
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Seed saving : a beginner's guide to heirloom gardening / by Warnock, Caleb(Caleb J.),1973-author.(CARDINAL)593891;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Why carrots and tomatoes don't grow as weeds -- How wild vegetables became domesticated -- The five seed types -- Understanding which plants reproduce and how -- How to prevent wild seeds -- Phenotype expression & inbreeding -- A vegetable species list -- Facts every seed saver should know -- Asian greens (Chinese mustards) -- Plants and their seeds.Seed saving guru Caleb Warnock guides you through the process of saving your own seeds and cultivating a garden all your own. Discover the secrets to saving seeds from more than thirty vegetable varieties, from brussels sprouts to sunchokes and everything in between. Warnock explains the minimum number of plants you'll need for a good seed crop, the difficulty level of saving that kind of seed, which other varieties will cross-pollinate with the seed, how to harvest the seeds and make them usable. Use this guide to become a more self-sustaining gardener and create a wealth of seeds your family can use for years to come - provided by publisher
Subjects: Seeds; Vegetables; Fruit; Germplasm resources, Plant;
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Homo sapiens rediscovered : the scientific revolution rewriting our origins / by Pettitt, Paul,author.(CARDINAL)420320;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-294) and index.Introduction -- Skin and bones -- The molecular frontier -- Climate change and environment -- Dispersal: from Africa to Asia -- Contact: Neanderthals and Denisovans -- Diversity -- Catastrophe: the coming of Homo sapiens in Europe -- Stress, disease and inbreeding -- In mammoth country -- Cold -- Refuge -- Hearth and home -- The sightless world of palaeolithic cave art -- Portable landscapes -- The mind -- The world of the dead -- Into the Americas -- Domestication.Who are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? This illuminating book explores how the latest scientific advances, especially in genetics, are revolutionizing our understanding of human evolution. Paul Pettitt reveals the extraordinary story of how our ancestors adapted to unforgiving and relentlessly changing climates, leading to remarkable innovations in art, technology and society that we are only now beginning to comprehend. Drawing on twenty-five years of experience in the field, Paul Pettitt immerses readers in the caves and rockshelters that provide evidence of our African origins, dispersals to the far reaches of Eurasia, Australasia and ultimately the Americas. Popular accounts of the evolution of Homo sapiens emphasize biomolecular research, notably genetics, but this book also draws from the wealth of information from specific excavations and artefacts, including the author's own investigations into the origins of art and how it evolved over its first 25,000 years. He focuses in particular on behaviour, using archaeological evidence to bring an intimate perspective on lives as they were lived in the almost unimaginably distant past.
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology); Human beings; Human evolution.;
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Separate from the world [sound recording] / by Gaus, Paul L.; Newbern, George,1964-(CARDINAL)347552;
Read by George Newbern.Professor Michael Branden is intrigued when Enos Erb, an Amish man, claims that his brother, Benny - a dwarf like himself - has been murdered. But Branden's attention is divided when a young student apparently leaps to her death from the college bell tower. The investigation into the girl's death uncovers links to a controversial genetics study on the effects of inbreeding within the Amish community - a study in which both Enos and Benny participated.
Subjects: Audiobooks; Mystery fiction; Amish; Branden, Michael (Fictitious character); College teachers;
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Hillbilly : a cultural history of an American icon / by Harkins, Anthony.(CARDINAL)275265;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-307) and indexes.Race, class, popular culture, and "the Hillbilly" -- From Yankee Doodle to "Devil Anse": Literary, graphic, and ideological progenitors, 1700-1899 -- The emergence of "Hillbilly," 1900-1920 -- Country music and the rise of "Ezra K. Hillbilly" in interwar America -- Luke, Snuffy, & Abner: Hillbilly cartoon images in depression-era America -- Hollywood's Hillbilly in mid-twentieth-century America -- The Hillbilly in the living room: television representations, 1952-1971 -- From deliverance to cyberspace: The continuing relevance of "Hillbilly" in contemporary America."In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly - in his various guises of "briar hopper," "brush ape," "ridge runner," and "while trash"--Has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values of family, home, and physical production, and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life. "Hillbilly" signifies both rugged individualism and stubborn backwardness, strong family and kin networks but also inbreeding and bloody feuds."--Jacket1810L
Subjects: Mountain people in popular culture; White people in popular culture; Popular culture; Group identity; White people; Mountain people; White people; Public opinion;
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The black-tailed prairie dog : social life of a burrowing mammal / by Hoogland, John L.(CARDINAL)352061;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-519) and index.Ch. 1. Prairie Dogs and Coloniality -- Ch. 2. Taxonomy and Natural History -- Ch. 3. Burrows -- Ch. 4. Study Sites and Methods -- Ch. 5. Costs and Benefits of Coloniality -- Ch. 6. The Coterie -- Ch. 7. Infanticide, the Major Cause of Juvenile Mortality -- Ch. 8. The Antipredator Call -- Ch. 9. Communal Nursing -- Ch. 10. Kin Recognition, Social Learning, and Eusociality -- Ch. 11. Behavioral Observations of Estrus and Copulations -- Ch. 12. Annual and Lifetime Reproductive Success -- Ch. 13. Factors That Affect Annual and Lifetime Reproductive Success -- Ch. 14. Levels of Inbreeding -- Ch. 15. Do Mothers Manipulate the Sex Ratio of Their Litters? -- Ch. 16. Demography and Population Dynamics -- Ch. 17. Behavioral Ecology of Prairie Dogs -- Appendix A. Common and Scientific Names of Organisms Mentioned in This Book -- Appendix B. Descriptions of Infanticides by Marauding Females.
Subjects: Black-tailed prairie dog; Social behavior in animals.; Black-tailed prairie dog;
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