Life Sciences: General Issues

The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this number continues to increase as developing countries imitate developed societies in ...

This book brings together experts from different fields, who used a broad spectrum of methods to investigate the physiological and cellular adaptat...

Geomicrobiology is the study of microbes and microbial processes and their role in driving environmental and geological processes at scales ranging...

Sensory perception: mind and matter aims at a deeper understanding of the many facets of sensory perception and their relations to brain function a...

Examines key trends in emerging strategic technologies and the implications for geopolitics and human dignity. Al-Rodhan argues that future evoluti...

With contributions from a team of leading experts, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of recent achievements in our scientific understandi...

Pollination is one of the most important processes in plant reproduction. It directly influences reproductive success and fitness and the genetic s...

Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - d...

Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of big concepts in science. But there...

Graph theory can be applied to ecological questions in many ways, and more insights can be gained by expanding the range of graph theoretical conce...

How does the brain regulate sexual behavior, or control our body weight? How do we cope with stress? Addressing these questions and many more besid...

Whereas genetic studies have traditionally focused on explaining heritance of single traits and their phenotypes, recent technological advances hav...

Although the 'Israeli case' of bioethics has been well documented, this book offers a novel understanding of Israeli bioethics that is a milestone ...

Modern biological classification is based on the system developed by Linnaeus, and interpreted by Darwin as representing the tree of life. But desp...

Ecologists, land managers and policymakers continue to search for the most effective ways to manage biological invasions. An emerging lesson is tha...

Over millions of years in the fossil record, hominin teeth preserve a high-fidelity record of their own growth, development, wear, chemistry and pa...

Living systems are dynamic and extremely complex and their behaviour is often hard to predict by studying their individual parts. Systems biology p...

Ecologists, land managers and policymakers continue to search for the most effective ways to manage biological invasions. An emerging lesson is tha...

The flock of greylag geese established by Konrad Lorenz in Austria in 1973 has become an influential model animal system and one of the few worldwi...

There is a major demand for people with scientific training in a wide range of professions based on and maintaining relations with science. However...

There is a major demand for people with scientific training in a wide range of professions based on and maintaining relations with science. However...

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