Las matemáticas de los cristales

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.

En esta última década la ficción policíaca y criminal se ha instalado en nuestras vidas, poniendo el foco de atención en algo que hasta ahora había quedado oculto y restringido a un gremio muy especializado: el de los científicos forenses. La historia de cómo la ciencia se aplica a la investigación criminal, la realidad actual de la ciencia forense y cómo consigue descifrar crímenes y dar con los culpables, se ha convertido en un tema central de interés para el gran público. ¿Cómo funciona una prueba de ADN? ¿Es infalible? ¿Puede un insecto señalar al culpable de un...

Making knowledge about evolution available to everyone, this simple and entertaining book offers answers to the most frequently asked questions. Throughout the text, the reader is reminded of the importance of understanding evolutionary processes in order to approach present day human behavior, including social conduct, as well as the difficulty of trying to decipher the nature of modern human beings without going back to their zoological origin. Divided into two sections, the first one builds the foundation for the latter, which explains the evolution of life, beginning at the physical...

In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to...