Biological Sciences category: 21088 books
August Weismann
Development, Heredity, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
August Weismann’s 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution.
by Werner K. Jensen, C. Devine, M. Dikeman
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
The Encyclopedia of Meat Sciences is an impressive and important body of work. Prepared by an international team of experts, this reference work covers all important aspects of meat science from stable to table, including animal breeding, physiology and slaughter, meat preparation, packaging, welfare,...
Interdisciplinarités entre Natures et Sociétés
Colloque de Cerisy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Comment appréhender les phénomènes reliant faits de nature et faits de société qui constituent la majeure partie des problèmes critiques et irrésolus contemporains ? Comment dépasser le grand partage fondateur de la modernité et surmonter la division du travail scientifique en disciplines...
by Stuart A. Kauffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
In the hard sciences, which can often feel out of grasp for many lay readers, there are "great thinkers" who go far beyond the equations, formulas, and research. Minds such as Stephen Hawking philosophize about the functions and nature of the universe, the implications of our existence, and other...
by Felix Fernandez-Alonso, David L Price
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
This work covers in some detail the application of neutron scattering to different fields of physics, materials science, chemistry, biology, the earth sciences and engineering. Its goal is to enable researchers in a particular area to identify aspects of their work in which neutron scattering techniques...
Kaufman’s Atlas of Mouse Development Supplement
With Coronal Sections
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Kaufman's Atlas of Mouse Development: With Coronal Sections continues the stellar reputation of the original Atlas by providing updated, in-depth anatomical content and morphological views of organ systems.The publication offers written descriptions of the developmental origins of the organ systems...
The Life Puzzle
On Crystals and Organisms and on the Possibility of a Crystal as an Ancestor
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
What is the origin of life? Molecular biology shows us one kind, but in thinking about it we must consider those generalised aspects of living organisation that are common to all conceivable forms of life. The author believes that only a combination of general biological theory and particular chemical...
Physics and Biology
From Molecules to Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Do you often lose your keys? You will find in this book the best strategy to find them, or at least the one deduced from statistical physics. What is the link with biology? Some proteins use the same strategy to find their target inside a living cell. This example illustrates one of the many links...
Proving Darwin
Making Biology Mathematical
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Groundbreaking mathematician Gregory Chaitin gives us the first book to posit that we can prove how Darwin’s theory of evolution works on a mathematical level.
For years it has been received wisdom among most scientists that, just as Darwin claimed, all of the Earth’s life-forms evolved...
Transform Your Life And Save The World
Through The Dreamed Of Arrival Of The Rehabilitating Biological Explanation Of The Human Condition
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This is the Second Edition of Transform Your Life And Save The World following significant additions in June 2019. The book is supported by a very informative website at www.humancondition.com
The world is in crisis! What is the solution?
Ultimately, we have to find the redeeming, and...
by Herbert H. Srebnik
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Anatomy, to be sure, is the essential foundation of clinical practice, but it is much more than that. First and foremost, anatomy is a biological science. There is order and logic to the organization of the human body and the arrangement of its parts. And, as all sciences, anatomy offers challenge...
It's in Your DNA
From Discovery to Structure, Function and Role in Evolution, Cancer and Aging
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
It's in Your DNA: From Discovery to Structure, Function and Role in Evolution, Cancer and Aging describes, in a clear, approachable manner, the progression of the experiments that eventually led to our current understanding of DNA. This fascinating work tells the whole story from the discovery of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
The International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) was established as a means of raising worldwide public and political awareness of the vast, though frequently under-used, potential the Earth Sciences possess for improving the quality of life of the peoples of the world and safeguarding Earth’s rich...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop on the impacts of climatic variability held in Wengen, Switzerland, September 1997. For the first time, an assessment is made of the interactions between physical and biological elements of the...