With only 25 % of its brain developed at birth the human infant «expects» and depends on proximity and contact with its caregiver's body, usually (but not always nor necessarily) the mot
With only 25 % of its
brain developed at birth the
human infant «expects» and depends on proximity and
contact with its caregiver's body, usually (but not always nor necessarily) the mot
with its caregiver's body, usually (but not always nor necessarily) the mother.
The animals, which live in close
contact with humans across the region, carry a wide variety of astroviruses, pathogens that commonly cause diarrhea in people and can also infect the kidney, liver, and
brain, researchers report this week in PLOS Pathogens.
Author of books: Atmospheres of Mars and Venus (1961, nonfiction) Planets (1966, nonfiction,
with Jonathan Norton Leonard) Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966, nonfiction,
with Iosif S. Shklovskii) Planetary Exploration (1970, nonfiction) Planetary Atmospheres (1971, nonfiction,
with Tobias C. Owen and Harlan J. Smith) U.F.O.'s: A Scientific Debate (1972,
with Thornton Page) The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973, nonfiction) Communication
with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1973, nonfiction) The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of
Human Intelligence (1977, nonfiction) Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record (1978, nonfiction) Broca's
Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979, nonfiction) Cosmos (1980, nonfiction) Comet (1985, nonfiction,
with Ann Druyan)
Contact (1985, novel) Nuclear Winter (1985, nonfiction) A Path where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race (1990, nonfiction,
with Richard P. Turco) The Demon - Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996, essays) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are (1992, nonfiction,
with Ann Druyan) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the
Human Future in Space (1994, essays) Billions and Billions (1996, essays) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006, nonfiction, posthumous,
with Ann Druyan)