Life Sciences: General Issues

Brain Development and School offers a range of practical classroom strategies to help pupils develop their executive function. Packed with useful t...

Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene function that do not involve changes in the DNA sequence. These changes, consisting principal...

Laurens Baas Becking was a pioneer in the field of microbial ecology and the father of Geobiology. This is the first English translation of Baas Be...

Key Thinkers in Neuroscience provides insight into the life and work of some of the most significant minds that have shaped the field. Studies of t...

A familiar trope of cognitive science, linguistics, and the philosophy of psychology over the past forty or so years has been the idea of the mind ...

Originally published in 1995 this is the fifth volume in the series Creationism in 20th Century America. It re-publishes After Its Kind – a critiqu...

This unique story offers an introductory conversation to genetics, embryology and evolution, taking us on a historical journey of biology through t...

Personal genome testing, gene editing for life-threatening diseases, synthetic life: once the stuff of science fiction, twentieth- and twenty-first...

Biologists studying large carnivores in wild places usually do so from a distance, using telemetry and noninvasive methods of data collection. So w...

Modern medicine has produced many wonderful technological breakthroughs that have extended the limits of the frail human body. However, much of the...

Optogenetic tools have allowed significant advances in the understanding of biological problems, particularly in the neurosciences field. Biologica...

50 Great Myths of Human Evolution uses common misconceptions to explore basic theory and research in human evolution and strengthen critical thinki...

In Science for Life acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg cuts through the vested interests and confusing contradictory statements that litter the m...