Biological Sciences category: 21088 books
Don't Look, Don't Touch, Don't Eat
The Science Behind Revulsion
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Every flu season, sneezing, coughing, and graphic throat-clearing become the day-to-day background noise in every workplace. And coworkers tend to move as far—and as quickly—away from the source of these bodily eruptions as possible. Instinctively, humans recoil from objects that they view as...
Sociobiology
The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2000
When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. The controversy surrounding the book's publication--and surrounding its central claim that human social behavior has a biological foundation--reverberates...
Dynamic Aquaria
Building Living Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
In its third edition, this praised book demonstrates how the living systems modeling of aquatic ecosystems for ecological, biological and physiological research, and ecosystem restoration can produce answers to very complex ecological questions. Dynamic Aquaria further offers an understanding developed...
by Guido Visconti
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2017
This book is a critical appraisal of the status of the so-called Climate Sciences (CS). These are contributed by many other basic sciences like physics, geology, chemistry and as such employ theoretical and experimental methods. In the last few decades most of the CS have been identified with the...
by Arshad Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
College biology Multiple Choice Questions and Answers pdf: MCQs, Quizzes & Practice Tests. College biology quiz questions and answers pdf with practice tests for online exam prep and job interview prep. College biology study guide with questions and answers about bioenergetics, biological molecules...
The Anatomy of Violence
The Biological Roots of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout
Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing...
Antarctic Terrestrial Microbiology
Physical and Biological Properties of Antarctic Soils
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book brings together many of the world’s leading experts in the fields of Antarctic terrestrial soil ecology, providing a comprehensive and completely up-to-date analysis of the status of Antarctic soil microbiology.
Antarctic terrestrial soils represent one of the most extreme environments...
Elsevier's Dictionary of Medicine and Biology
in English, Greek, German, Italian and Latin
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Dictionaries are didactic books used as consultation instruments for self-teaching. They are composed by an ordered set of linguistic units which reflects a double structure, the macrostructure which correspond to the word list and the microstructure that refers to the contents of each lemma. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
The over 10,000 entries in this comprehensive Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology provide clear and concise definitions for anyone working in life sciences today. It incorporates related terms from neuroscience, genetics, microbiology, immunology, pathology, and physiology. This fourth revised...
Origins of Biogeography
The role of biological classification in early plant and animal geography
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. It moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born from a synthesis of Darwin and Wallace and focuses...
The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects
Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
The human reaction to insects is neither purely biological nor simply cultural. And no one reacts to insects with indifference. Insects frighten, disgust and fascinate us. Jeff Lockwood explores this phenomenon through evolutionary science, human history, and contemporary psychology, as well as a...
Human Sperm Competition
Copulation, masturbation and infidelity
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Since the 1970s, behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologists have been fascinated by the biological implications of sperm from different males competing for fertilization of the egg in the female reproductive tract. But until Human Sperm Competition there had never been a discussion of the phenomenon...
by Ian Tattersall, Robert DeSalle
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
What happens now that human population has outpaced biological natural selection? Two leading scientists reveal how we became who we are—and what we might become.
When you think of evolution, the picture that most likely comes to mind is a straight-forward progression, the iconic illustration...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
This book provides state-of-the-art reviews, current research on and the prospects of lignin production, biological, thermal and chemical conversion methods, and lignin technoeconomics. Fundamental topics related to lignin chemistry, properties, analysis, characterization, and depolymerization mechanisms,...