Biological Sciences category: 21088 books
The Origin Then and Now
An Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting for students and general readers alike because of Darwin's Victorian prose and the complexity and scope of his ideas. The "Origin" Then and Now is a unique...
Secret Chambers
The inside story of cells and complex life
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
In the follow up to Darwin's Lost World, Martin Brasier introduces the quest for the missing history of life and the cell. Through a series of journeys it emerges that the modern plant cell is one of the most deeply puzzling and unlikely steps in the whole history of life. Decoding this puzzle is...
Handbook of Epigenetics
The New Molecular and Medical Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2010
Epigenetics is considered by many to be the "new genetics" because of the overwhelming evidence of the contribution of non-genetic factors such as nutrition, environment, and chemical exposure on gene expression. The effects of epigenetics are vast, including tissue/organ regeneration, X-chromosome...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
JAK tyrosine kinases and STAT transcription factors constitute a signaling pathway, which is activated by cytokines. By activating gene transcription it regulates essential biological responses to environmental cues. The Jak-Stat pathway is involved in the regulation of cell development, differentiation,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Although the species is one of the fundamental units of biological classification, there is remarkably little consensus among biologists about what defines a species, even within distinct sub-disciplines. The literature of paleobiology, in particular, is littered with qualifiers and cautions about...
by David Blow
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2002
Outline of Crystallography for Biologists is intended for researchers and students in the biological sciences who require an insight into the methods of X-ray crystallography without needing to learn all the relevant theory. The main text is purely descriptive and is readable by those with minimal...
Biological Sequence Analysis
Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1998
Probabilistic models are becoming increasingly important in analysing the huge amount of data being produced by large-scale DNA-sequencing efforts such as the Human Genome Project. For example, hidden Markov models are used for analysing biological sequences, linguistic-grammar-based probabilistic...
The Silwood Circle
A History of Ecology and the Making of Scientific Careers in Late Twentieth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in Britain from the late 1960s onwards. The book can also be read as a history of some recent developments in ecology. One of the group, Robert May, is a past president of the...
by JJ Semple
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
The Biology of Consciousness: Case Studies in Kundalini examines the notion that consciousness exists outside the body and actually drives evolution by what Gopi Krishna called “the evolutionary impulse.”
The book examines the arguments for and against God, making clear that there is very...
Modeling Coastal Hypoxia
Numerical Simulations of Patterns, Controls and Effects of Dissolved Oxygen Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
This book provides a snapshot of representative modeling analyses of coastal hypoxia and its effects. Hypoxia refers to conditions in the water column where dissolved oxygen falls below levels that can support most metazoan marine life (i.e., 2 mg O2 l-1). The number of hypoxic zones has been increasing...
Race Unmasked
Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Race, while drawn from the visual cues of human diversity, is an idea with a measurable past, an identifiable present, and an uncertain future. The concept of race has been at the center of both triumphs and tragedies in American history and has had a profound effect on the human experience. Race...
Modeling of Living Systems
From Cell to Ecosystem
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Modeling is now one of the most efficient methodologies in life sciences. From practice to theory, this book develops this approach illustrated by many examples; general concepts and the current state of the art are also presented and discussed.
An historical and general introduction informs the reader...
by Elliott Maynard
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
The Twelve MetaStrategies are essentially a Set of inspirational tools for Creative Thinking and Action, designed to promote an Environmentally Sustainable Future for the universal benefit of Humans, their Planetary Homeworld, and the Generations yet to come.
Despite the bad news regarding...
Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution
Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in evolutionary...