Life Sciences: General Issues

Climate change has shaped life in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Understanding the interactions between climate and biodiversit...

This book presents a study of the various feelings of awe and wonder experienced by astronauts during space flight. It summarizes the results of tw...

Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize.A gripping investigation into an extraordinary medical phenomenon, from Wellcome Prize-winning...

Recent neuroscience research makes it clear that human biology is cultural biology - we develop and live our lives in socially constructed worlds t...

Biostatistics with R provides a straightforward introduction on how to analyse data from the wide field of biological research, including nature pr...

'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and cerebral heft such music ca...

This second part of Volume 48 of the Flora of Pan-Himalaya is devoted to the single genus, Saussurea of the Asteraceae family, which has wide medic...

This book explores the impact of neuroscience research over the past 20 or more years on brain function as it affects moral decisions. Findings sho...

Australian marsupials represent a parallel adaptive radiation to that seen among placental mammals. This great natural experiment has produced a st...

Harmony is an integral part of our auditory environment. Resonances characterised by harmonic frequency relationships are found throughout the natu...

The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) is a high quality, well documented package of open source software tools for molecular ...

Ecological restoration projects seek to recover the natural functioning of degraded ecosystems, most often areas disturbed by human large scale pro...

Members of the mammalian clade Carnivora have invaded nearly every continent and ocean, evolving into bamboo-eating pandas, clam-eating walruses an...

Provides insights into a lively field of international human rights politics the protection of children and their rights by looking at the negoti...

Bringing together the latest scientific advances and some of the most enduring subtle philosophical puzzles and problems, this book collects origin...

Biology has entered the age of Big Data. A technical revolution has transformed the field, and extracting meaningful information from large biologi...

Plant remains can preserve a critical part of history of life on Earth. While telling the fascinating evolutionary story of plants and vegetation a...

What mechanisms are involved in enabling us to generate predictions of what will happen in the near future? Although we use associative mechanisms ...

Biological anthropology is a diverse field, with countless research methods and techniques in different sub-disciplines. This book takes a critical...

Quantitative genetics is the study of continuously varying traits which make up the majority of biological attributes of evolutionary and commercia...

Quantitative genetics is the study of continuously varying traits which make up the majority of biological attributes of evolutionary and commercia...

This book provides a synthetic overview of all evidence concerning the evolution of the morphology of the human pelvis, including comparative anato...

Understanding the interaction between cooperation and conflict in establishing effective social behaviour is a fundamental challenge facing societi...

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century...