Life Sciences: General Issues

You don't need a spaceship to travel to the extremes of science. You just need this book. What's the nature of reality? Does the universe ever en...

All humans share certain components of tooth structure, but show variation in size and morphology around this shared pattern. This book presents a ...

The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Bo...

The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influe...

'Daring, learned and humane ... A revelatory restoration of wonder' Stephen Greenblatt. We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the ...

This monumental work by Dankmar Bosse presents, for the first time, a comprehensive picture of the evolution of the earth and its natural kingdoms,...

The Evolution of Life stands alone amongst the major textbooks by focusing on key principles to offer a truly accessible, unintimidating treatment ...

In 1980, the science world was stunned when a maverick team of researchers proposed that a massive meteor strike had wiped the dinosaurs and other ...

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understan...

The forgotten garden that inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius. Da...

With a Foreword by Rowan Williams - Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge Religions - broadly defined - are found in probably all human societies...

Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all...

Both natural and cultural selection played an important role in shaping human evolution. Since cultural change can itself be regarded as evolutiona...

Evolutionary ethics - the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification - began in the nineteenth century with the work of ...

Charles Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle was a journey that would revolutionise our understanding of the natural world and our place in it. The ma...

Mechanical Design of Structural Materials in Animals explores the principles underlying how molecules interact to produce the functional attributes...

Why have creatures evolved as they are? Which species have been the most successful? How do life forms adapt to a world dominated by nearly seven b...

Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret...

Based on sequence analyses of many different genes, the past decade has provided us with a profound knowledge of fungal systematics and phylogeny. ...