Biological Sciences category: 21088 books
Troublesome Science
The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
It is well established that all humans today, wherever they live, belong to one single species. Yet even many people who claim to abhor racism take for granted that human “races” have a biological reality. In Troublesome Science, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall provide a lucid and forceful critique...
by Fabrizio Cleri
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
In this book, physics in its many aspects (thermodynamics, mechanics, electricity, fluid dynamics) is the guiding light on a fascinating journey through biological systems, providing ideas, examples and stimulating reflections for undergraduate physics, chemistry and life-science students, as well...
Signs of Life
A Semantic Critique of Evolutionary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book challenges the fundamental ideas in the Neo-Darwinian theory of evolution from the perspective of mathematics, physics, computing, game theory, and non-linear dynamics.
It argues that the key ideas underlying evolution—random mutation and natural selection—are based on notions...
Evolution in Four Dimensions
Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research.
This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published...
Human Evolution
Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Controversy over human evolution remains widespread. However, the human genome project and genetic sequencing of many other species have provided myriad precise and unambiguous genetic markers that establish our evolutionary relationships with other mammals. Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies and...
by Xuhua Xia
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book provides an evolutionary conceptual framework for comparative genomics, with the ultimate objective of understanding the loss and gain of genes during evolution, the interactions among gene products, and the relationship between genotype, phenotype and the environment. The many examples...
Global Marine Biological Diversity
A Strategy For Building Conservation Into Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Global Marine Biological Diversity presents the mup-to-date information and view on the challenge of conserving the living sea and how that challenge can be met.
Darwin's Cathedral
Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
One of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now, they have been considered completely irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson's Darwin's Cathedral takes the radical step of joining the two, in the process proposing an evolutionary...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012
The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from...
Life on a Young Planet
The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep...
Darwin's Roadmap to the Curriculum
Evolutionary Studies in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
There is a paradox when it comes to Darwinian ideas within the academy. On one hand, Darwin's theories have famously changed the foundational ideas related to the origins of life, shaping entire disciplines in the biological sciences. On the other hand, people in educated societies across the globe...
by Sibel Yildirim
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells are mature cells that have been genetically reprogrammed so that they return to their embryonic state. It is not yet known if iPS stem cells and embryonic stem cells differ significantly. Today many fundamental belief systems in biology are shifting towards accepting...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Many creatures use adhesive polymers and structures to attach to inert substrates, to each other, or to other organisms. This is the first major review that brings together research on many of the well-known biological adhesives dealing with bacteria, fungi, algae, and marine and terrestrial animals....
Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
From Molecular Embryology to Tissue Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Defined as, “The science about the development of an embryo from the fertilization of the ovum to the fetus stage,” embryology has been a mainstay at universities throughout the world for many years. Throughout the last century, embryology became overshadowed by experimental-based genetics and...