Biological Sciences category: 21088 books
Synergistic Selection
How Cooperation Has Shaped Evolution and the Rise of Humankind
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
"Nothing about the evolution of biological complexity makes sense except in the light of synergy." Peter Corning's new book is being hailed as a major contribution to what is perhaps the greatest shift in our understanding of evolution since The Origin of Species. It's a tour de force that...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
Agroecology not only encompasses aspects of ecology, but the ecology of sustainable food production systems, and related societal and cultural values. To provide effective communication regarding status and advances in this field, connections must be established with many disciplines such as sociology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
In the most recent years, each of the RNA silencing pathways of plants have appeared to generate ncRNAs with dedicated functions, specialized biological activities and specific functional scopes. RNA silencing plays a crucial role in coordinating the expression, stability, protection and inheritance...
Regulatory RNAs
Basics, Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Recent progress in high-throughput technologies and genome wide transcriptome studies have lead to a significant scientific milestone of discovering non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) which spans through a major portion of the genome. These RNAs most often act as riboregulators, and actively participate in...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The rapidly developing field of systems biology is influencing many aspects of biological research and is expected to transform biomedicine. Some emerging offshoots and specialized branches in systems biology are receiving particular attention and are becoming highly active areas of research. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Eighth Edition, presents the extraordinary growth of research on aging individuals, populations, and the dynamic culmination of the life course, providing a comprehensive synthesis and review of the latest research findings in the social sciences of aging.
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Water from Heaven
The Story of Water from the Big Bang to the Rise of Civilization, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
From where—and what—does water come? How did it become the key to life in the universe? Water from Heaven presents a state-of-the-art portrait of the science of water, recounting how the oxygen needed to form H2O originated in the nuclear reactions in the interiors of stars, asking whether microcomets...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on soils and water can assist land and fire managers with information on the physical, chemical, and biological effects of fire needed to successfully conduct ecosystem management, and effectively inform others about the role and impacts of...
by Nicholas Harberd
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Nicholas Harberd, a father, scientist, and nature lover, spends his days at the lab directing a team discovering the secrets of how plants grow, using a common weed as their example. Concerned that he's losing sight of the weed's ordinary days in the world, he sets out to find an example of the same...
Limits of Patentability
Plant Sciences, Stem Cells and Nucleic Acids
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
SpringerBriefs in Biotech Patents presents timely reports on intellectual properties (IP) issues and patent aspects in the field of biotechnology. In this volume the limits of patentability are addressed, a question that is often raised when it comes to biotechnological inventions: The first section...
Evolution and the Emergent Self
The Rise of Complexity and Behavioral Versatility in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Evolution and the Emergent Self is an eloquent and evocative new synthesis that explores how the human species emerged from the cosmic dust. Lucidly presenting ideas about the rise of complexity in our genetic, neuronal, ecological, and ultimately cosmological settings, the author takes readers on...
Brutes or Angels
Human Possibility in the Age of Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A guide to the rapidly progressing Age of Biotechnology, Brutes or Angels provides basic information on a wide array of new technologies in the life sciences, along with the ethical issues raised by each.
With stem cell research, Dolly the cloned sheep, in vitro fertilization, age retardation,...
Forest Landscape Restoration
Integrating Natural and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Restoration ecology, as a scientific discipline, developed from practitioners’ efforts to restore degraded land, with interest also coming from applied ecologists attracted by the potential for restoration projects to apply and/or test developing theories on ecosystem development. Since then, forest...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
The research category of the landscape ecology, which researches the structure, functions, and the spatio-temporal changes of the ecological landscapes, has now been contributing to the human life and the shifts of the socio-economic paradigm. Global warming has been influencing the universal life...