Biology category: 3817 books
Bozo Sapiens
Why to Err is Human
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
The New York Times called Chances Are, the authors' look at the application of probability in everyday life, a "dizzying, exhilarating ride." In Bozo Sapiens, they take us on a another funhouse journey, exploring the surprising, or alarming, number of ways that humans can make bad judgments...
Cannibalism
A Perfectly Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
“Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity.” —Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biological significance. Its presence in nature was dismissed as a desperate response...
Panic in Level 4
Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways. Obsessive and inspired efforts by scientists to solve mysteries and save lives. From The Hot Zone to The Demon in the Freezer and beyond, Richard Preston’s bestselling works have mesmerized readers everywhere by showing...
Homo Mysterious:Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there are even more things that we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. Paradoxically, many of these mysteries are very close to home, involving some of the most personal aspects...
Behave
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Why do we do the things we do?
Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful...
Dolphin Confidential
Confessions of a Field Biologist
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Who hasn’t fantasized about the unique thrill of working among charismatic and clever dolphins in the wild? We need not live this solely in our imaginations anymore. With Dolphin Confidential Maddalena Bearzi invites all of us shore-bound dreamers to join her and travel alongside the dolphins. In...
by Burn, Robert
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Nudibranchs, the ‘butterflies of the sea’, belong to a group that includes bubble shells, sea hares, side-gilled slugs, sap-sucking slugs and sea butterflies (pteropods). This group includes some of the most beautiful, colourful and delicate of all marine creatures. More than 400 species of nudibranchs...
Human Errors
A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections that make us human
We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution’s greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often—two hundred times...
The Tangled Tree
A Radical New History of Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018
Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health...
The Other Side of Normal
How Biology Is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
In this enthralling work of popular science, respected Harvard psychiatrist Jordan Smoller addresses one of humankind’s most enduring and perplexing questions: What does it mean to be “normal?” In The Other Side of Normal, Smoller explores the biological component of normalcy, revealing the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
This book provides critical reviews of the role of neurotrophins and their receptors in a wide variety of diseases including neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s syndrome, cognitive function, psychiatric disorders such as clinical depression, Rett syndrome, motoneurone disease, spinal cord...
by Itai Yanai, Lercher Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Since Dawkins popularized the notion of the selfish gene, the question of how these selfish genes work together to construct an organism remained a mystery. Now, standing atop a wealth of new research, Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher—pioneers in the field of systems biology—provide a vision of how genes cooperate and compete in the struggle for life.
by John M. Archibald
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Genomics has transformed the biological sciences. From epidemiology and medicine to evolution and forensics, the ability to determine an organism's complete genetic makeup has changed the way science is done and the questions that can be asked of it. Its most celebrated achievement was the Human Genome...
Too Much of a Good Thing
How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Dean of Columbia University's medical school explains why our bodies are out of sync with today's environment and how we can correct this to save our health.
Over the past 200 years, human life-expectancy has approximately doubled. Yet we face soaring worldwide rates of obesity, diabetes, high...