Life Sciences: General Issues

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

Reproductive science continues to revolutionise reproduction and propel us further into uncharted territories. The revolution signalled by the birt...

Intractability is a growing concern across the cognitive sciences: while many models of cognition can describe and predict human behavior in the la...

Brain and behaviour are intrinsically linked. Animals demonstrate a huge and complex repertoire of behaviours, so how can specific behaviours be ma...

The papers contained in this volume were presented at the 21st Annual S- posium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2010) held at NYU-Poly, Broo...

This new edition of a foundational text presents a contemporary review of cladistics, as applied to biological classification. It provides a compre...

This well-established and acclaimed textbook introducing the rapidly growing field of nerve and muscle function has been completely revised and upd...

Reproduction is a fundamental feature of life, it is the way life persists across the ages. This book offers new, wider vistas on this fundamental ...

The birthplace of modern humans, Africa, has the highest genetic diversity in the world, yet it remains vastly understudied. With biomedical resear...

Salt marshes are highly dynamic and important ecosystems that dampen impacts of coastal storms and are an integral part of tidal wetland systems, w...

Why do the debates about evolution persist, despite the plentiful evidence for it? Breaking down the notion that public resistance to evolution is ...

Can Christianity and evolution coexist? Traditional Christian teaching presents Jesus as reversing the effects of the fall of Adam. But an evolutio...

Quantum mechanics is traditionally associated with microscopic systems; however, quantum concepts have also been successfully applied to a diverse ...

Only a green world, rich in plants, can sustain us and the millions of other species with which we share this planet. But, in an era of global chan...

Through a long history of co-evolution, multicellular organisms form a complex of host cells plus many associated microorganism species. Consisting...

This textbook surveys the current knowledge on substance use disorders (SUD), summarizing scientific evidence from numerous fields. It uses a biops...

Distribution and Transformation of Nutrients and Eutrophication in Large-scale Lakes and Reservoirs: The Three Gorges Reservoir presents key findin...

Why do the debates about evolution persist, despite the plentiful evidence for it? Breaking down the notion that public resistance to evolution is ...

Development of transgenic crop plants, their utilization for improved agriculture, health, ecology and environment and their socio-political impact...

Who was the scientific progenitor of eugenic thought? Amir Teicher challenges the preoccupation with Darwin's eugenic legacy by uncovering the exte...

'An exhilarating, genre-defying read' Observer, 'Beautiful' Elif Shafak, 'Absolutely sensational' Michael Cashman, CBE, 'Powerful and compelling' N...

When we think about viruses we tend to consider ones that afflict humans--such as those that cause influenza, HIV, and Ebola. Yet, vastly more viru...