Essays Tagged: "American Museum of Natural History"

Anthropology

The American Museum of Natural History has many exhibits that demonstratemany aspects of anthropology. T ... many aspects of anthropology are located on the first, second and thirdfloors. The first floor has American Northwest Coast Peoples, Eskimos, Human Biologyand Evolution. The second floor had African ... Human Biologyand Evolution. The second floor had African Peoples, Asian Peoples, Mexico and CentralAmerican Peoples, and South American Peoples. Finally, the third floor had Primates,North American E ...

(7 pages) 168 0 4.2 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

The History of American Academics

loped over time, each having significance in academics today. Warren Susman's essay History and the American Intellectual: Uses of a Usable Past, specifies that there are two kinds of societies in wor ... on the other (Maddox, p.39). The body of the essay maps the interaction of these societies through American intellectuals and their use of history and myth. Susman accomplishes his goal of replacing ...

(7 pages) 57 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Bookreport on a Biography of Richard Feynman.

to think about patterns and the basics of mathematical relations. Melville also took Richard to the American Museum of Natural History and bought a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica to help expand hi ...

(8 pages) 33 0 4.4 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

How science impacted my life

nterest in the world around me was in eighth grade when my whole class went to a planetarium to the American Museum of Natural History. It was a very exciting experience because I have never seen anyt ...

(1 pages) 16 0 4.0 May/2007

Subjects: Science Essays

Biography of Margaret Mead

n earned her a seat on many national and international boards concerning people's mental health.The American Anthropological Association, the Anthropological Film Institute, the Scientist's Institute ... te, the Scientist's Institute for Public Information, the Society for Applied Anthropology, and the American Association for Advancement of Science are a handful of the organizations that Mead found h ...

(3 pages) 19 0 4.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

The Real Jurassic Park

echnology has made research on fossil DNA possible, but no dinosaur DNA has ever been found. At the American Museum of Natural History, researchers have extracted the sequenced DNA from a weevil that ...

(5 pages) 1456 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Delhi Sands Flower Loving Fly

ominalis better known as the Delhi Sands Fly, is mention as an endangered species. According to the American Museum of Natural History, the species was listed as an Endangered Species in 1993, and onl ... the ESA would better help individual to understand the act and why it has to be enforced.References American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Orwell, George, Animal Farm, Literature in English ...

(3 pages) 1561 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

AMPHIBIA: CAUDATA: AMBYSTOMATIDAE This is a species account which talks about the Axolotl's breeding, diet, definition, distribution, Nomenclatural History, fossil record and Etymology.

_______________________________________________________________________________�Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles.Amelingmeier, Amber. 2008. Ambystoma mexicanum.Ambystoma mexicanumA ... r 2007). Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.Gilbert, S. F. 2000. Developmental Biology, 6th ed ...

(5 pages) 14 0 5.0 Sep/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Mass extinction

e thinning of the ozone layer, according to the survey of 400 scientists commissioned by New York's American Museum of Natural History (Warrick, Washington post, 1998). The word extinction describes t ...

(6 pages) 31 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

kujgli

moths, fish, and bulls were the main figures in these realistic cave paintings. Photographed by the American Museum of Natural History, featured in Ancient History: From Prehistoric Times to the Death ... c hope to repel dangerous animals from their territory and increase the band's food supply. 5[4: 4. American Museum of Natural History, "Horse and hind from Altamira," in Ancient History: From Prehist ...

(7 pages) 0 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: History Term Papers