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Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death.(Book review)
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November 1, 2006
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*** 1/2 Ghost Hunters William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death By Deborah Blum
Who are you gonna call?
At the height of the spiritualism craze that swept Europe and America in the late 19th century, that burgeoning community of spiritualists counted among its devotees such luminaries as David Hume, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Tennyson, John Ruskin, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, and the father of modern American psychology, William James. After the death of his infant son, James sought solace in the apparent ...
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The anatomy, life habits, and later development of a new species of enteropneust, Harrimania planktophilus (hemichordata: Harrimaniidae) from barkley sound.
Magazine article from: The Biological Bulletin
; Introduction The deuterostome phylum Hemichordata is composed of three extant classes: the Enteropneusta are solitary worms, the Pterobranchia are colonial tube-dwelling suspension...
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Fenestrate graptolite theoretical morphology: Geometric constraints on lophophore shape and arrangement in extinct hemichordates
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology
; ...Fenestellidae and Polyporidae (Stenolaemata: Bryozoa), and from species of the graptolite genus Dictyonema (Pterobranchia: Hemichordata), all of which are extinct. The zooids of fenestrate bryozoans and fenestrate hemichordates are believed to have filtered...
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New marine biology study findings have been reported from University of Oxford.
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation
; "Pterobranchs are small marine filter feeders in the phylum Hemichordata. Their phylogenetic position and anatomical structure has resulted in pterobranchs featuring in many scenarios concerning the...
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Research on life sciences published by scientists at University of Western Ontario.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week
; ...sequences in members of the animal phyla Porifera, Placozoa, Cnidaria, Mollusca, Annelida, Nematoda, Echinodermata, Hemichordata and Chordata. Using reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) with degenerate primers designed to recognize...
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New biology study findings have been published by M. Nomaksteinsky and colleagues.
Newspaper article from: Science Letter
; ...dorsalization and internalization from a diffuse nerve net coextensive with the skin of the animal, such as enteropneust worms (Hemichordata, Ambulacraria) are supposed to have [3]. We show here that juvenile and adult enteropneust worms in fact have a bona...
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Particle retention and flow in the pharynx of the enteropneust worm Harrimania planktophilus: the filter-feeding pharynx may have evolved before the chordates.
Magazine article from: The Biological Bulletin
; Introduction The enteropneust worms and bryozoan-like pterobranchs constitute the small deuterostome phylum Hemichordata, which is generally regarded as an early offshoot from the chordate line of evolution (Ruppert and Barnes, 1994). Such...
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Sports active: Childhood? I can't recall last week Fishing lines
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...College, Cambridge, reader in palaeo- biology and curator of the Sedgwick Museum. His research interests include phylum hemichordata; systematics, evolution and mode of life of graptolites from Middle Cambrian to Carboniferous (but especially Silurian...
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NEW THRUST AREAS TO BE ADDED TO BIO-DIVERSITY
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...of India. Similarly, according to Zoological Survey of India, a total of 91206 species of animals [Invertebrates and Hemichordata (86212), Chordata (4994) = 91206] are known from India. The thrust areas, for biodiversity conservation among others...
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