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Nature and Science June 2018
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Accidental Brothers : The Story of Twins Exchanged at Birth and the Power of Nature and Nurture
by Nancy Segal
Accidental Brothers tells the unique story of two sets of identical Colombian twin brothers who discovered at age 25 that they were mistakenly raised as fraternal twins--when they were not even biological brothers. Due to an oversight that presumably occurred in the hospital nursery, one twin in each pair was switched with a twin in the other pair. The result was two sets of unrelated "fraternal" twins--Jorge and Carlos, who were raised in the lively city of Bogotá; and William and Wilber, who were raised in the remote rural village of La Paz, 150 miles away. Everyone's life unraveled when one of the twins--William--was mistaken by a young woman for his real identical twin, Jorge. Her "discovery" led to the truth--that the alleged twins were not twins at all, but rather unrelated individuals who ended up with the wrong families.
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Microbia : A Journey into the Unseen World Around You
by Eugenia Bone
"Set against a backdrop of [the author's] misadventures in academia, [this work] explores what microbes are and how they live and compares the microbiomes of soil, plants, animals (that includes us), and places, explaining such things as the wrongheadedness of labeling some bacteria 'good' and others 'bad' ... [and] walks you through this incredible garden of the unseen and helps you realize that we share everything"--
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| The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve BrusatteThe most up-to-date research on the amazing rise, fantastic reign, and spectacular extinction of dinosaurs is presented in a captivating and lively manner. Paleontologists discover, on average, one new dinosaur species a week(!), so there is much new information to share. |
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The wolf : a true story of survival and obsession in the West
by Nate Blakeslee
An intimate account of the rise and rein of O-Six, the fabled Yellowstone wolf, describes how, after being hunted to near extinction by the 1920s, the species has managed to rebound through conservationists' efforts, in a book that discusses debates specifically affecting America's western regions.
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