Biological Sciences category: 21088 books

Cover of Genetics of Bacteria
by Sheela Srivastava
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

Described as the earliest, simplest life forms, with unlimited metabolic versatility, bacteria are ideally suited to answer some very fundamental questions on life and its processes. They have been employed in almost all fields of biological studies, including Genetics. The whole edifice of science...
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Life History Evolution

A Biological Meta-Theory for the Social Sciences

by Steven C. Hertler, Aurelio José Figueredo, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018

The social sciences share a mission to shed light on human nature and society. However, there is no widely accepted meta-theory; no foundation from which variables can be linked, causally sequenced, or ultimately explained. This book advances “life history evolution” as the missing meta-theory...
Cover of Mathematics for the Life Sciences
by Suzanne Lenhart, Erin N. Bodine, Louis J. Gross
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014

The life sciences deal with a vast array of problems at different spatial, temporal, and organizational scales. The mathematics necessary to describe, model, and analyze these problems is similarly diverse, incorporating quantitative techniques that are rarely taught in standard undergraduate courses....
Cover of Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences
by James R. Griesemer, Joan Roughgarden, Ofer Feinerman
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018

Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges. Many researchers and scholars in the life sciences have become increasingly critical of the traditional methodological focus on the...
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Biotech

The Countercultural Origins of an Industry

by Eric J. Vettel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

The seemingly unlimited reach of powerful biotechnologies and the attendant growth of the multibillion-dollar industry have raised difficult questions about the scientific discoveries, political assumptions, and cultural patterns that gave rise to for-profit biological research. Given such extraordinary...
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Aristotle's Ladder, Darwin's Tree

The Evolution of Visual Metaphors for Biological Order

by J. David Archibald
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014

Leading paleontologist J. David Archibald explores the rich history of visual metaphors for biological order from ancient times to the present and their influence on humans' perception of their place in nature, offering uncommon insight into how we went from standing on the top rung of the biological...
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Synthetic

How Life Got Made

by Sophia Roosth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

In the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Armed with the latest biotechnology techniques,...
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Modern Physics

An Introductory Text

by Jeremy I Pfeffer, Shlomo Nir
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...
Cover of Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology
by Gustavo Caetano-Anollés
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011

A comprehensive, authoritative look at an emergent area in post-genomic science, Evolutionary genomics is an up-and-coming, complex field that attempts to explain the biocomplexity of the living world. Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology is the first full-length book to blend established and...
Cover of The Origin of Life
by Raymond Aron
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

Theoretical biology is still in its early stages as an academic discipline. There is even little agreement as to what topics it should deal with or in what manner it should precede; and it is only recently that philosophers felt called upon to notice the relevance of biological topics as evolution...
Cover of Cell Biological Applications of Confocal Microscopy
by Brian Matsumoto
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2003

This volume of the acclaimed Methods in Cell Biology series provides specific examples of applications of confocal microscopy to cell biological problems. It is an essential guide for students and scientists in cell biology, neuroscience, and many other areas of biological and biomedical research,...
Cover of Practical Statistics for Environmental and Biological Scientists
by John Townend
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

All students and researchers in environmental and biological sciences require statistical methods at some stage of their work. Many have a preconception that statistics are difficult and unpleasant and find that the textbooks available are difficult to understand. Practical Statistics for Environmental...
Cover of The Mathematics and Mechanics of Biological Growth
by Alain Goriely
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017

This monograph presents a general mathematical theory for biological growth. It provides both a conceptual and a technical foundation for the understanding and analysis of problems arising in biology and physiology. The theory and methods are illustrated on a wide range of examples and applications. A...
Cover of CMOS Capacitive Sensors for Lab-on-Chip Applications
by Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh, Mohamad Sawan
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010

1.1 Overview of Lab-on-Chip Laboratory-on-Chip (LoC) is a multidisciplinary approach used for the miniaturization, integration and automation of biological assays or procedures in analytical chemistry [1–3]. Biology and chemistry are experimental sciences that are continuing to evolve and develop...
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