Biological category: 21163 books
by Patrik Nosil
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The origin of biological diversity, via the formation of new species, can be inextricably linked to adaptation to the ecological environment. Specifically, ecological processes are central to the formation of new species when barriers to gene flow (reproductive isolation) evolve between populations...
by Stefan Buczacki, Keith Harris
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Essential for all gardeners, horticulturists, teachers, students and naturalists, this is a practical guide to dealing with the pests, diseases and disorders that commonly affect fruit, vegetables, trees and ornamental garden plants. A revision of the highly acclaimed Collins Guide to Pests, Diseases...
by Daniel Goldfarb
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Learn BIOPHYSICS without expending a lot of ENERGY!
Interested in unraveling the physics of living things? Here's your starting point. Biophysics Demystified is the fast and easy way to understand this fascinating topic.
Written in a step-by-step format, this practical guide begins with an...
Introductory Bioelectronics
For Engineers and Physical Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Bioelectronics is a rich field of research involving the application of electronics engineering principles to biology, medicine, and the health sciences. With its interdisciplinary nature, bioelectronics spans state-of-the-art research at the interface between the life sciences, engineering and physical...
by Fabrizio Cleri
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
In this book, physics in its many aspects (thermodynamics, mechanics, electricity, fluid dynamics) is the guiding light on a fascinating journey through biological systems, providing ideas, examples and stimulating reflections for undergraduate physics, chemistry and life-science students, as well...
Rat Island
Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the thousands....
by John Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
In The Artful Universe (OUP, 1995) John D. Barrow explored the close ties between our aesthetic appreciation and the basic nature of the Universe, challenging the commonly held view that our sense of beauty is entirely free and unfettered. It looked at some of the unexpected ways in which the structure...
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
How Morality Evolved
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.
In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that...
Signs of Life
A Semantic Critique of Evolutionary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book challenges the fundamental ideas in the Neo-Darwinian theory of evolution from the perspective of mathematics, physics, computing, game theory, and non-linear dynamics.
It argues that the key ideas underlying evolution—random mutation and natural selection—are based on notions...
by Zhongping Tan, Lai-Xi Wang, Michael Boyce
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Glycans play a vital role in modulating protein structure and function from involvement in protein folding, solubility and stability to regulation of tissue distribution, recognition specificity, and biological activity. They can act as both positive and negative regulators of protein function, providing...
Giraffe
Biology, Behaviour and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
With its iconic appearance and historic popular appeal, the giraffe is the world's tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant. Recent years have seen much-needed new research undertaken to improve our understanding of this unique animal. Drawing together the latest research into one...
Design in Nature
How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world.
Everything—from...
Modern Physics
An Introductory Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
This second edition of the successful textbook, Modern Physics: An Introductory Text, preserves the unique blend of readability, scientific rigour and authenticity that made its predecessor so indispensible a text for non-physics science majors. As in the first edition, it sets out to present 20th...
Evolution in Four Dimensions
Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research.
This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published...