Biology, Life Sciences

Access to accurate, evidence-based, and clinically relevant information is essential to anyone who uses or recommends herbal products. With input f...

4th edition of this classic Ecology text Computational methods have largely been replaced by descriptions of the available software Includes proce...

4th edition of this classic Ecology text Computational methods have largely been replaced by descriptions of the available software Includes proce...

Our memories shape how we think about the past, how we plan for the future, and how we think about ourselves. Yet our memories are also constantly ...

Covers the area of lipidomics from fundamentals and theory to applications Presents a balanced discussion of the fundamentals, theory, experimenta...

Social behavior has long puzzled evolutionary biologists, since the classical theory of natural selection maintains that individuals should not sac...

A discussion of life cycles and individual size in organisms, and of the relationships between the two, and of their conjoint role in evolution. O...

T. H. Huxley (1825-1895) was not only an active protagonist in the religious and scientific upheaval that followed the publication of Darwin's theo...

The fourth medical atlas in this new series on the human body and filled with detailed pictures, this atlas details the topographical and pathotopo...

Ecologists now recognize that the dynamics of populations, communities, and ecosystems are strongly affected by adaptive individual behaviors. Yet ...

DIATOM GLIDING MOTILITY Moving photosynthetic organisms are still a great mystery for biologists and this book summarizes what is known and reports...

Offers an integrated presentation for path planning and motion control of cooperative mobile robots using discrete-event system principles Generati...

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology presents the most comprehensive assessment of the philosophy, goals, and practice of forensic anthropology cur...

Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is un...

Questions about the dignity of the human person give rise to many of the most central and hotly disputed topics in bioethics. In A Defense of Digni...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Ecological surrogates and indicators are used widely by resource managers because they provide a simpler way to monitor and understand complex biot...

A fully revised review of the latest research in molecular basis of plant abiotic stress response and adaptation Abiotic stressors are non-living e...

Conus is the largest genus of animals in the sea, occurring throughout the world's tropical and subtropical oceans and contributing significantly t...

The Atlantic salmon is one of the most prized and exploited species worldwide, being at the centre of a massive sports fishing industry and increas...

The cognitive neuroscience of long-term memory is ingrained with the assumptions that a particular task measures a single cognitive process and tha...

There is much more to heredity than genesFor much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological i...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

The major subdisciplines of ecology--population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and evolutionary ecology--have diverged increasingly...