Biological category: 21163 books
Ending Aging
The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
MUST WE AGE?
A long life in a healthy, vigorous, youthful body has always been one of humanity's greatest dreams. Recent progress in genetic manipulations and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold forth the promise that someday science will enable us to exert total control over our own...
by Frans de Waal
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within. Moral behavior does not begin and end with religion but is in fact a product of evolution.
For many years,...
Nine Pints
A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough science
Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit...
by David Toomey
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
“Weird indeed, and not a little wonderful.”—Nature
In the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single-celled algae in...
Biotechnology in Our Lives
What Modern Genetics Can Tell You about Assisted Reproduction, Human Behavior, and Personalized Medicine, and Much More
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
For a quarter of a century, the Council for Responsible Genetics has provided a unique historical lens into the modern history, science, ethics, and politics of genetic technologies. Since 1983 the Council has had leading scientists, activists, science writers, and public health advocates researching...
by Professor Robin Dunbar
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
A fascinating account of the latest thinking on human evolution, by 'one of the most respected evolutionary psychologists in Britain'.
For scientists studying evolution, the past decade has seen astonishing advances across many disciplines - discoveries which have revolutionised scientific...
The Seductions of Darwin
Art, Evolution, Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in applying scientific methods to the interpretation of artwork. In this insightful book, Matthew Rampley addresses these...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Flying insects are intelligent micromachines capable of exquisite maneuvers in unpredictable environments. Understanding these systems advances our knowledge of flight control, sensor suites, and unsteady aerodynamics, which is of crucial interest to engineers developing intelligent flying robots...
by Mervin Fingas
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
The National Academy of Sciences estimate that 1.7 to 8.8 million tons of oil are released into world's water every year, of which more than 70% is directly related to human activities. The effects of these spills are all too apparent: dead wildlife, oil covered marshlands and contaminated water chief...
Drawing the Map of Life
Inside the Human Genome Project
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Drawing the Map of Life is the dramatic story of the Human Genome Project from its origins, through the race to order the 3 billion subunits of DNA, to the surprises emerging as scientists seek to exploit the molecule of heredity. It's the first account to deal in depth with the intellectual roots...
The 10,000 Year Explosion
How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.
Scientists have long believed that the “great leap forward” that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked end of significant...
Biopunk
Solving Biotech's Biggest Problems in Kitchens and Garages
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Bill Gates recently told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. "If you want to change the world in some big way," he says, "that's where you should start-biological molecules."
The most disruptive force on the planet resides in DNA. Biotech...
How Evolution Explains Everything About Life
From Darwins brilliant idea to todays epic theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime.
All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants.
We...
Human Origins
7 million years and counting
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Where did we come from? Where are we going?
Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed...