1.) the absorption of extreme energy sources (UV light, radiation) 2.) endogenous reactions when oxygen is reduced to water created by systems involved in electron and oxygen transport (redox reactions) 3.) enzymatic metabolism of exogenous chemicals or drugs.
Back to Episode. John Horgan examines how Americans seem to have a completely different attitude toward war than we did thirty years ago. Strangely, everyone seems to know the answer. Robert Sapolsky brings us farther afield - to eastern Africa, where a population of baboons defies his expectations of violent behavior.
Primates are fantastic leapers (Figure 2), swift arboreal quadrupeds, arm-swingers, and vertical clingers. In fact, primates possess one of the most varied movement arrays of all mammals. As a group, primates are hind-limb dominated.