Table of Contents “...Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contents by Subject Area -- Contributors -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Guide to the Encyclopedia -- A -- Abundance Estimation -- Aerial Behavior -- Age Estimation -- Aggressive Behavior, Intraspecific -- Albinism -- Amazon River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) -- Ambergris -- Anatomical Dissection: Thorax and Abdomen -- Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) -- Antarctic Marine Mammals -- Archaeocetes, Archaic -- Arctic Marine Mammals -- Atlantic Spotted Dolphin (Stenella frontalis) -- Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) -- Australian Sea Lion (Neophoca cinerea) -- Australian Snubfin Dolphin (Orcaella heinsohni) -- Azorean Whaling -- B -- Baculum -- Baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) -- Balance -- Baleen -- Baleen Whales (Mysticetes) -- Barnacles -- Basilosaurids -- Beaked Whales, Overview (Ziphiidae) -- Bearded Seal (Erignathus barbatus) -- Behavior, Overview -- Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) -- Biogeography -- Blubber -- Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) -- Bones and Teeth, Histology of -- Bottlenose Whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus and H. planifrons) -- Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) -- Bow-Riding -- Brain -- Brain Size Evolution -- Breathing -- Breeding Sites -- Bryde's Whales (Balaenoptera edeni/B. brydei) -- Burmeister's Porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis) -- Bycatch -- C -- California, Galapagos, and Japanese Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus, Z. wollebaeki, and Z. japonicus) -- Callosities -- Captive Breeding -- Captivity -- Caspian and Baikal Seals (Pusa caspica and Pusa sibirica) -- Cephalorhynchus Dolphins (C. heavisidii, C. eutropia, C. hectori, and C. commersonii) -- Cetacean Ecology -- Cetacean Evolution -- Cetacean Fossil Record -- Cetacean Life History -- Cetacean Prenatal Development -- Circulatory System -- Classification (Overall) -- Climate Change -- Clymene Dolphin (Stenella clymene) -- Coloration -- Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) -- Common Dolphins (Delphinus delphis and D. capensis) -- Communication in Marine Mammals -- Competition with Fisheries -- Conservation Efforts -- Crabeater Seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) -- Culture in Whales and Dolphins -- Cuvier's Beaked Whale (Ziphius cavirostris) -- D -- Dall's Porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) -- Delphinids, Overview -- Dental Morphology, Evolution of -- Desmostylia -- Dialects -- Diet -- Distribution -- Diving Behavior -- Diving Physiology -- Dugong (Dugong dugon) -- Dusky Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) -- E -- Eared Seals (Otariidae) -- Earless Seals (Phocidae) -- Echolocation -- Ecological Effects of Marine Mammals -- Ecology, Overview -- Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris and M. leonina) -- Endangered Species and Populations -- Endocrine Systems -- Energetics -- Entrapment and Entanglement -- Estrus and Estrous Behavior -- Ethics and Marine Mammals -- Extinctions, Specific -- F -- False Killer Whale (Pseudorca crassidens) -- Feeding Morphology -- Feeding Strategies and Tactics -- Female Reproductive Systems -- Filter Feeding -- Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) --T$...”
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Table of Contents “...A -- Academy of Sciences of the USSR -- Age of the Earth -- Amino Acids -- Anthropology -- Antibiotics -- Arrhenius, Svante -- Artificial Elements -- Astronomical Observatories -- Astrophysics -- Atomic Bomb -- Atomic Energy Commission -- Atomic Structure -- B -- Bateson, William -- Becquerel, Henri -- Big Bang -- Biochemistry -- Biometry -- Birth Control -- Bjerknes, Vilhelm -- Boas, Franz -- Bohr, Niels -- Boltwood, Bertram -- Bragg, William Henry -- Brain Drain -- C -- Cancer -- Carbon Dating -- Cavendish Laboratory -- Chadwick, James -- Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan -- Chemical Warfare -- Cherenkov, Pavel -- Chromosomes -- Cloud Chamber -- Cockcroft, John -- Cold War -- Colonialism -- Compton, Arthur Holly -- Computers -- Conservation -- Continental Drift -- Cosmic Rays -- Cosmology -- Crime Detection -- Curie, Marie -- Cybernetics -- Cyclotron -- D -- Davisson, Clinton -- Debye, Peter -- Determinism -- DNA -- E -- Earth Structure -- Ecology -- Eddington, Arthur Stanley -- Ehrlich, Paul -- Einstein, Albert -- Electronics -- Elitism -- Embryology -- Endocrinology -- Espionage -- Eugenics -- Evolution -- Extraterrestrial Life -- F -- Federation of Atomic Scientists -- Fermi, Enrico -- Fission -- Franck, James -- Freud, Sigmund -- G -- Game Theory -- Gamow, George -- Genetics -- Geology -- Geophysics -- Gödel, Kurt -- Great Depression -- Gutenberg, Beno -- H -- Haber, Fritz -- Haeckel, Ernst -- Hahn, Otto -- Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson -- Hale, George Ellery -- Heisenberg, Werner -- Hertzsprung, Ejnar -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Hormones -- Hubble, Edwin -- Human Experimentation -- I -- Industry -- Intelligence Testing -- International Cooperation -- International Research Council -- J -- Jeffreys, Harold -- Johannsen, Wilhelm -- Joliot, Frédéric, and Irène Joliot-Curie -- Jung, Carl -- Just, Ernest Everett -- K -- Kaiser Wilhelm Society -- Kammerer, Paul -- Kapteyn, Jacobus -- Koch, Robert -- Kurchatov, Igor -- L -- Lawrence, Ernest -- Leakey, Louis -- Leavitt, Henrietta Swan -- Light -- Lowell, Percival -- Loyalty -- Lysenko, Trofim -- M -- Manhattan Project -- Marconi, Guglielmo -- Marine Biology -- Mathematics -- McClintock, Barbara -- Mead, Margaret -- Medicine -- Meitner, Lise -- Mental Health -- Mental Retardation -- Meteorology -- Microbiology -- Millikan, Robert A. -- Missing Link -- Mohorovicic, Andrija -- Morgan, Thomas Hunt -- Mutation -- N -- National Academy of Sciences -- National Bureau of Standards -- National Science Foundation -- Nationalism -- Nazi Science -- Nobel Prize -- Nutrition -- O -- Oceanic Expeditions -- Oceanography -- Office of Naval Research -- Oort, Jan Hendrik -- Origin of Life -- P -- Patronage -- Pavlov, Ivan -- Peking Man -- Penicillin -- Pesticides -- Philosophy of Science -- Physics -- Piaget, Jean -- Pickering's Harem -- Piltdown Hoax -- Planck, Max -- Polar Expeditions -- Popper, Karl -- Psychoanalysis -- Psychology -- Public Health -- Q -- Quantum Mechanics -- Quantum Theory -- R -- Race -- Radar -- Radiation Protection -- Radio Astronomy -- Radioactivity -- Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata -- Rediscovery of Mendel -- Relativity -- Religion -- Richter Scale -- Rockets -- Royal Society of London -- Russell, Bertrand -- Rutherford, Ernest -- S -- Schrödinger, Erwin -- Science Fiction -- Scientism -- Scopes Trial -- Seismology -- Shapley, Harlow -- Simpson, George Gaylord -- Skinner, Burrhus Frederic -- Social Progress -- Social Responsibility -- Solvay Conferences -- Soviet Science -- Sverdrup, Harald -- Szilard, Leo -- T -- Technocracy -- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre -- Thomson, Joseph John -- Turing, Alan -- U -- Uncertainty Principle -- Uranium -- Urey, Harold -- V -- Vavilov, Sergei -- Venereal Disease -- Von Laue, Max -- Vygotsky, Lev -- W -- Wegener, Alfred -- Women -- World War I -- World War II -- Wright, Sewall -- X -- X-rays -- Y -- Yukawa, Hideki....”
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