Genetics (Non-medical)

The main goal of this book is to encourage and formalize the infusion of evolutionary thinking into mainstream conservation biology. It reviews the...

How do plants, even if still buried underground, know that it's their time to bloom? What signals them to begin the challenging task of making flow...

The complete DNA molecules comprising the human genome were deciphered two decades ago. With this discovery began a remarkable genomic voyage back ...

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This book is about the genetics and behaviour of individuals within colonies of social insects - bees, wasps, ants, and termites. Colonial living i...

The exact scientific answer to these ancient questions are indispensable preconditions for the understanding of the origins of life, for the artifi...

Life is often a matter of gambles, pay-offs, and trade-offs, just like a game. This book takes us on a tour through the games and computer simulati...

Evolution is unlike any other theory in science in the generality of its interest and the excellence of the authors who write about it. This anthol...

Why does nature love symmetry? In Asymmetry, Developmental Stability and Evolution, Møller and Swaddle analyse the evolutionary implications of sym...

The first edition of Maynard Smith's Evolutionary Genetics (first published in 1989) was welcomed as the first comprehensive introduction to the mo...

R A Fisher's classic The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection was first published by the Oxford University Press in 1930. It was the first attempt...

In 1953, two young, unknown scientists sparked a worldwide revolution. Studying DNA for clues to the nature of genes, James Watson and Francis Cric...

Melanism: Evolution in Action describes investigations into a ubiquitous biological phenomenon, the existence of dark, or melanic, forms of many sp...

Very little excites human curiosity quite so much as contemplating human origins. More than any other branch of science, evolution - and human evol...

Taking as examples the lives of creative individuals through history, Genius and the Mind considers the nature of creativity and genius from a psyc...

Before Mendel, who came closest to the truth about heredity? This book examines the activities of sheep breeders able to transform the appearance a...

Origin and Early Evolution of Life draws on evidence from molecular genetics, the structure and function of extant organisms, and geology. It cover...

Transcription is part of the process of gene expression and is very different in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In prokaryotic cells the synthesis rea...

Some of the most intriguing issues in the study of cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development arise in the debate over nature versus nu...

Death, for bacteria, is not inevitable. Protect a bacterium from predators, and provide it with adequate food and space to grow, and it would conti...

This book pulls together the full range of cell culture, biochemical, microscopic, and genetic techniques to study the early mammalian embryo. Unti...

Phenotypic plasticity is the range and process of variation in body plan and physiology. This book pulls together recent theoretical advances in ph...

Behavioural genetics is a fast-growing, multidisciplinary field which attempts to explain the influence of genetic and environmental factors on beh...

In 1974, Richard Lewontin published The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, focusing enormous attention on protein variation as both a model of u...

The completion of the first draft of the human genome has led to an explosion of interest in genetics and molecular biology. The view of the genome...

The completion of the first draft of the human genome has led to an explosion of interest in genetics and molecular biology. The view of the genome...

Speciation is one of the great themes of evolutionary biology. It is the process through which new species are born and diversity generated. In thi...

Few scientists have made lasting contributions to as many fields as Francis Galton. He was an important African explorer, travel writer, and geogra...

With increasing frequency, systematic and evolutionary biologists have turned to the techniques of molecular biology to complement their traditiona...

This book is a comprehensive, multi-authored work on the structure and function of the mammalian testis. The approach emphasizes gene expression, t...

Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene function that do not involve changes in the DNA sequence. These changes, consisting principal...

In 1974, Richard Lewontin published The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, focusing enormous research attention on protein variation as both a m...

Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene function that do not involve changes in the DNA sequence. These changes, consisting principal...