Life Sciences: General Issues

What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? This book seeks explanations...

This advanced textbook is the first to explore the consequences of plant dispersal for population and community dynamics, spatial patterns, and evo...

Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole species? Samir Okasha provides a comprehensive analy...

The binding of antibiotics and drugs to DNA is a fast developing area of research with important applications in medicine, particularly the treatme...

Whether reading, looking at a picture, or driving, how is it that we know where to look next - how does the human visual system calculate where our...

Even though more than half the world's population is bilingual, the study of bilinguals has lagged behind that of monolinguals. With this book, whi...

Why are some kinds of organism species-rich and others species-poor? How do new species arise and why do some go extinct? Why do organisms grow and...

The phenomenon of hypnosis provides a rich paradigm for those seeking to understand the processes that underlie consciousness. Understanding hypnos...

The study of learning and memory occurs in several scientific traditions: neurobiology, neurogenetics, neurochemistry; animal learning and behaviou...

This book provides an exceptionally friendly introduction to Perl that emphasizes good programming practices with repeated exposure to pattern matc...

This book addresses the fundamental issues of predator-prey interactions, with an emphasis on predation among arthropods, which have been better st...

The conflict between creationists and evolutionists has raged ever since the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. And yet, even as gene...

Many infectious diseases of recent concern, including malaria, cholera, plague, and Lyme disease, have emerged from complex ecological communities,...

The human body has long inspired artists, philosophers, musicians, and writers. Researchers in the psychological sciences, however, have only relat...

Eye movements are a vital part of our interaction with the world. They play a pivotal role in perception, cognition, and education. Research in thi...

The complexity of the brain and the protean nature of behavior remain the most elusive area of science, but also the most important. van Hemmen and...

Mammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment. This book is an account of the remarkable 320 million ye...

Why are some kinds of organism species-rich and others species-poor? How do new species arise and why do some go extinct? Why do organisms grow and...

Once famous for the beauty of its white beaches, reef-ringed islands, and lush forests, today the Philippines is known as an example of the deep co...

DNA as the genetic material is a topic of intense interest in the 21st century, with the genomes of many organisms having been sequenced. The doubl...

Many animals regulate their population density by patterns of behavior that would be easy to explain if the forces of natural selection acted to op...

To what extent can animal behaviour be described as rational? What does it even mean to describe behaviour as rational? This book focuses on one o...

The male thynnine wasp's extreme sexual enthusiasm is crucial to reproduction of hammer orchids in the wild. Hammer orchids have co-evolved to prod...

'Working Memory, Thought, and Action' is the magnum opus of one of the most influential cognitive psychologists of the past 50 years. This new volu...