Biological category: 21163 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Biological and biomedical studies have entered a new era over the past two decades thanks to the wide use of mathematical models and computational approaches. A booming of computational biology, which sheerly was a theoretician’s fantasy twenty years ago, has become a reality. Obsession with computational...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Systems biology is a relatively new biological study field that focuses on the systematic study of complex interactions in biological systems, thus using a new perspective (integration instead of reduction) to study them. Particularly from year 2000 onwards, the term is used widely in the biosciences,...
Don't Look, Don't Touch, Don't Eat
The Science Behind Revulsion
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Every flu season, sneezing, coughing, and graphic throat-clearing become the day-to-day background noise in every workplace. And coworkers tend to move as far—and as quickly—away from the source of these bodily eruptions as possible. Instinctively, humans recoil from objects that they view as...
Sociobiology
The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2000
When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. The controversy surrounding the book's publication--and surrounding its central claim that human social behavior has a biological foundation--reverberates...
Dynamic Aquaria
Building Living Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
In its third edition, this praised book demonstrates how the living systems modeling of aquatic ecosystems for ecological, biological and physiological research, and ecosystem restoration can produce answers to very complex ecological questions. Dynamic Aquaria further offers an understanding developed...
Biotechnology
A Laboratory Course
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 1996
The objectives of this Second Edition of Biotechnology: A Laboratory Course remain unchanged: to create a text that consists of a series of laboratory exercises that integrate molecular biology with protein biochemistry techniques while providing a continuum of experiments. The course begins with basic...
by Arshad Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
College biology Multiple Choice Questions and Answers pdf: MCQs, Quizzes & Practice Tests. College biology quiz questions and answers pdf with practice tests for online exam prep and job interview prep. College biology study guide with questions and answers about bioenergetics, biological molecules...
The Anatomy of Violence
The Biological Roots of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout
Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing...
by Emmet Tobin
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2016
This eBook aims to provide a summary of the guiding themes along with some simple methodologies in (i) Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine and (ii) factors that influence the re-epithelial and tissue regeneration in wound healing. Tissue engineering involves the application of biological...
Antarctic Terrestrial Microbiology
Physical and Biological Properties of Antarctic Soils
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book brings together many of the world’s leading experts in the fields of Antarctic terrestrial soil ecology, providing a comprehensive and completely up-to-date analysis of the status of Antarctic soil microbiology.
Antarctic terrestrial soils represent one of the most extreme environments...
by Little Green Apples Publishing, LLC ™
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The General Biology Study Brief is a condensed quick-reference resource that is intended as a compact orientation for anyone with an interest in the subject of biology. It is an ideal primer to prepare high school and college students enrolled in their first general biology course. Along with the...
Origins of Biogeography
The role of biological classification in early plant and animal geography
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. It moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born from a synthesis of Darwin and Wallace and focuses...
The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects
Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
The human reaction to insects is neither purely biological nor simply cultural. And no one reacts to insects with indifference. Insects frighten, disgust and fascinate us. Jeff Lockwood explores this phenomenon through evolutionary science, human history, and contemporary psychology, as well as a...
Human Sperm Competition
Copulation, masturbation and infidelity
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Since the 1970s, behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologists have been fascinated by the biological implications of sperm from different males competing for fertilization of the egg in the female reproductive tract. But until Human Sperm Competition there had never been a discussion of the phenomenon...