Life Sciences: General Issues

Marine sediments dominate the global seabed, creating the largest ecosystem on earth. Seafloor biodiversity is a key mediator of ecosystem function...

Biological Essentialism addresses three main issues. The first concerns the essences (natures, identities) of biological taxa, particularly species...

The statistical mechanical theory of liquids and solutions is a fundamental area of physical sciences with important implications in other fields o...

What are the arts? What functions do the arts serve in human life? There has been a surge of cognitive, biological, and evolutionary interest in th...

There is only one kind of human on earth today: us. But we are only one of a number of human species primates of the Hominini tribe that have exi...

Over the course of less than a decade, whole genome sequencing has progressed from being one of our nations boldest scientific aspirations to becom...

Extensively reorganized and revised with the latest data from this rapidly changing field, Lewin's Essential GENES, Fourth Edition, provides studen...

Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal, and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to ma...

This Springer essential explains the theoretical foundations for knowledge-based interpretation of medical laboratory data. Self-organization of bi...

To this day Charles Darwins evolutionary theory of the survival of the fittest has been visualized with the universal model of a tree of life. But ...

Would our lives, relationships and careers be better if we just STFU for a while? We live in a world that doesnt ...