Life Sciences: General Issues

Genetics today is inexorably focused on DNA. The theme of Introduction to Genetics: A Molecular Approach is therefore the progression from molecule...

Uncover the mind-blowing complexities of the brain and how it affects our personalities, behaviours and more.Written by Professor of Cognitive Neur...

In this two volume festschrift, contributors explore the theoretical developments (Volume I) and applications (Volume II) in traditional cognitive ...

Principles of Evolution covers all aspects of the subject. Following an introductory section that provides necessary background, it has chapters on...

Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clari...

A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird and wonderful world of wasps DAVE GOULSON, author of SILENT EARTH There m...

The Science of Attitudes is the first book to integrate classic and modern research in the field of attitudes at a scholarly level. Designed primar...

Multiscale models in social applications combine mean-field and kinetic equations with either microscopic or macroscopic level descriptions. In thi...

Sylvius 4 Online provides a unique Web-based learning environment for exploring and understanding the structure of the human central nervous system...

This volume provides an overview of (1) the physical and chemical foundations of dating methods and (2) the applications of dating methods in the g...

Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter...

This book is the first major study of what was probably the most important centre or pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought in the British Isles. It sh...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide today, but are not just a modern phenomenon. To explore the deep roots of C...

Computational thinking is increasingly gaining importance in modern biology, due to the unprecedented scale at which data is nowadays produced. Bri...

Yale's Reports, published in 1828, is a seminalpublication for understanding the development of American higher education. Giving highest priority ...

This book has expanded classic concept of immunology. Immunoglobulins have been widely discovered to be produced by many non-B cells. The non B cel...

A neurosurgeon explores how our tendency to prioritize short-term consumer pleasures spurs climate change, but also how the brains amazing capacity...

In the rapidly-evolving landscape of neurosciences, it is no easy task to select a limited array of topics to present in a text such as this. The c...

Biotechnological advancements during the last half-century have forced humanity to come to grips with the possibility of a post-human future. The e...

RNAs form complexes with proteins and other RNAs. The RNAinfrastructure represents the spatiotemporal interaction of these proteins and RNAs in a c...