Life Sciences: General Issues

The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous ...

This book is an intellectual tour de force: a comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development. Looking at the entire range of human evo...

Present worldwide funding in organic electronics is poised to stimulate major research and development efforts in organic materials research for li...

Trophic cascadesthe top-down regulation of ecosystems by predatorsare an essential aspect of ecosystem function and well-being. Trophic cascades ar...

This is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject. Geared to...

Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and b...

In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and clon...

One of the most persistent controversies of modern science has dealt with human visual perception. It erupted in Germany during the 1860s as a disp...

Describing the philosophy of the scientific method and the training and professional characteristics needed for a successful career, Scientific Res...

Crack open this book and take a read. You will be transported, illuminated, and delighted. Psychology Today Just 125,000 years ago, humanity was on...

A groundbreaking approach to scale and scaling in ecological theory and practiceScale is one of the most important concepts in ecology, yet researc...

With the expansion of human settlements and the environmental changes brought on by human activity and pollutants, toxicology and risk assessment o...

A vintners blend of science, history, travel, and tantalizing drink recommendations. --Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken BotanistIn search of a my...

This volume presents chapters from internationally renowned scholars in the area of goals and social behavior. The book is organized around a serie...

CITIZEN SCIENTIST is award-winning environmental journalist and author Mary Ellen Hannibal's story of becoming a citizen scientist - and finding mo...

Readers of Susan Cain's Quiet and Daniel Pink's When will appreciate this passionate investigation into creativity and the human brainfrom the pers...

th Thisvolumecontainsaselectionofthebestcontributionsdeliveredatthe6 - ternational Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics...

The 2010 International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation (LSMS 2010) and the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Computing...

Franklin M. Harold's On Life reveals what science can tell us about the living world. All creatures, from bacteria and redwoods to garden snails a...

The 2010 International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation (LSMS 2010) and the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Computing...

Over time the complex idea of species has evolved, yet its meaning is far from resolved. This comprehensive work is a fresh look at an idea central...