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- Brain (22060 bytes)
3: ...ure. Functions of the brain are responsible for [[cognition]], [[emotion]], [[memory]], [[motor learning]] an...
9: .... The brains of arthropods and cephalopods arise from twin parallel nerve cords that extend through t...
11: The brains of craniates develop from the anterior section of a single dorsal [[neura...
20: ...ers are [[congenital]]. [[Tay-Sachs disease]], [[Fragile X syndrome]], [[Down syndrome]], and [[Toure...
38: ...derstand the nervous system, including the brain, from a biological perspective. [[Psychology]] seeks... - Culture (23440 bytes)
1: ...m Classroom Clipart]]]The word '''''culture''''', from the [[Latin]] <i>colere</i>, with its root mea...
6: ...tually tried to eliminate popular or mass culture from the definition of culture.
10: ...this [[worldview]], people with different customs from those who regard themselves as cultured do not ...
12: From the 18th century onwards, some social critics h...
19: ...y for symbolic thinking and social learning stems from human evolution confounds older arguments about... - Music (16462 bytes)
20: ...ere exist solo vocal and instrumental genres with free, improvisational rhythms with no regular pulse;...
38: ...lude a mixture of both, and performance may range from improvised solo playing for one's enjoyment to ...
43: ... is produced as [[sheet music]]. To perform music from notation requires an understanding of both the ...
49: ...nventions and even "fully composed" includes some freely chosen material. See also, [[precompositional...
51: ...may create musical sounds, examples of this range from wind chimes, through computer programs which se... - Meditation (26064 bytes)
7: From the point of view of [[psychology]], meditation...
20: ...ces. It may serve simply as a means of relaxation from a busy daily routine, or even as a means of gai...
32: ...rgy and spirits that can protect the practitioner from misfortune.
41: ... loss. This in turn can gradually free one's mind from the attachment to the impermanent that is the r...
53: ...icult one of struggle and [[temptation]]. [[Saint Francis]] would also retreat to the wilderness in is... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...rk for the [[American Revolution|American]] and [[French Revolution]]s, the Latin American independenc...
14: ...ne. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jefferson.
16: ...d by the ideas of [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]], [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]]...
18: ...ies. If the previous era was the age of reasoning from first principles, Enlightenment thinkers saw th...
20: ...figures such as Sir [[Francis Bacon (philosopher)|Francis Bacon]] with the axiomatic approach of Desca... - Savannah Elephant (2385 bytes)
2: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[image:elephant.african.600pix.jpg|250px]] | caption = }}
10: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''L. africana'''''}}
12: ...ial_name = Loxodonta africana | author = [[Johann Friedrich Blumenbach|Blumenbach]] | date = [[1797]]}...
15: ...t is also known as the '''Bush Elephant''' or '''African Bush Elephant'''.
17: The Savannah elephant can range from 6–7.3 m (20–24 ft) long a... - African Grey Parrot (5256 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = African Grey Parrot}}
2: ...pg|200px|African Grey Parrot]] | caption = Congo African Grey Parrot<br> ''Psitticus erithacus erithac...
14: ... leafy matter. Both wild-caught and captive-bred African greys are kept as pets.
18: ...[[cooperative]] feeding on the ground in central Africa.
20: ...[[language]] use have also been made for another African grey called [[N'kisi]], who has a vocabulary ... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
7: ...losophy. To this day Einstein receives popular recognition unprecedented for a scientist.
12: ...b|200px|Young Einstein before the Einsteins moved from Germany to Italy.]]
20: ...e school to let him go with a medical note from a friendly doctor, but this meant he had no secondary-...
22: ...r Maja was to later marry their son Paul, and his friend [[Michele Besso]] married their other daughte...
26: ...ed his scientific interests with a group of close friends, including Mileva. He and Mileva had a daugh... - Tobacco smoking (36030 bytes)
10: ...ter or match. One of the most common favors asked from a stranger is for a light; it is also done as a...
15: ...ury]], tobacco smoking was brought to Europe, and from there spread to the rest of the world.
17: ...rtrayed in advertising as part of a glamorous carefree lifestyle. This image continued to be prevalent...
37: ... he was usually seen to have a cigar clamped, was frequently remarked upon by the press and public.
39: ...ins. However, the practice of ingesting the smoke from a smoldering leaf generates an enormous number ... - Telencephalon (1948 bytes)
1: ...hich is the first of three [[vesicle]]s that form from the [[embryo|embrionic]] [[neural tube]].
3: ...px|The lobes of the cerebral cortex include the [[frontal lobe]] (red), [[temporal lobe]] (green), [[o...
4: ... and [[volition|volitive]] systems project fibers from cortical areas of the cerebrum to [[thalamus|th... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...rly every musician in the [[Europe]]an tradition, from [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] to [[Arnold ...
7: ... more distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and...
11: ...cles were also all professional musicians ranging from church organists and court chamber musicians to...
13: ...g Sebastian playing some of the distinctive tunes from his private library, at which point the elder b...
22: ...ression made possible by their slight differences from each other — available to keyboard musici... - Franz Xaver von Baader (10383 bytes)
1: '''Franz Xaver von Baader''' ([[March 27]], [[1765]] &n...
3: ... [[Abraham Gottlob Werner]] at [[Freiberg, Saxony|Freiberg]], travelled through several of the mining ...
5: ...d, probably gave out more than he received. Their friendship continued till about the year 1822, when ...
7: ...ing the last three years of his life, interdicted from lecturing on the philosophy of religion.
9: ...ch mark the outline of his thought. Baader starts from the position that human reason by itself can ne... - Donkeys (8731 bytes)
15: ...uidae]]. The wild ancestors of the donkey are [[Africa]]n.
18: ...reeds just like the horse family, ranging in size from miniatures, standard (pony size) to mammoth (fu...
24: From before the dawn of recorded history, donkeys ha...
28: ...donkeys appear to be quite intelligent, cautious, friendly, playful, and eager to learn. Once you hav...
33: ...me of them are the the African wild ass (''Equus Africanus''), the [[Somalia]]n wild ass (''Equus soma... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
5: ...t known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classi...
13: ...ding to similarities and differences that emerged from observation.
19: ...as [[binomial nomenclature]], and the name formed from the two parts is known as the [[scientific name...
23: ...p at a given layer is composed of a set of groups from the layer directly below. Simply knowing the tw...
25: The groupings ([[taxa]]) of [[taxonomy]] from most general to most specific are: - Cognitive neuroscience (2047 bytes)
1: ...een as part of a wider interdisciplinary study of cognition, [[cognitive science]].
5: ... [[information processing]] approaches, inherited from cognitive psychology, [[mathematical psychology...
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