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  • Plant Physics

    by Karl J. Niklas, Hanns-Christof Spatz ...
    From Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea that peripherally located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces, to Leonardo da Vinci, whose illustrations of the parachute are alleged to be based on his study of the dandelion's pappus and the maple tree's samara, many of our greatest physicists, mathematicians, and engineers have learned ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Origins of Life

    From Abiotic Chemistry to the First Cells

    by Karl Niklas, Thomas Owens, Randy O. Wayne ...
    The Origins of Life: From Abiotic Chemistry to the First Cells is an essential textbook that tackles one of the greatest mysteries in science, how inanimate matter evolved into the first living things. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, delving into the basic principles of the earth's chemistry, the formation of pre-cellular entities, and the acquisition of chemical complexity. It ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Plant Evolution

    An Introduction to the History of Life

    by Karl J. Niklas ...
    Although plants comprise more than 90% of all visible life, and land plants and algae collectively make up the most morphologically, physiologically, and ecologically diverse group of organisms on earth, books on evolution instead tend to focus on animals. This organismal bias has led to an incomplete and often erroneous understanding of evolutionary theory. Because plants grow and reproduce ... Read more

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  • Multicellularity

    Origins and Evolution

    Edited by Karl J. Niklas, Stuart A. Newman ...
    Series Book 18 - Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
    Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theoretical concepts, and philosophical issues.The evolution of multicellularity raises questions regarding genomic and developmental commonalities and discordances, selective advantages and disadvantages, physical determinants of development, and the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    by Rob DeSalle, Ian Tattersall ...
    "An engaging and complex examination of the development of the human brain throughout its evolutionary history" ( Publishers Weekly).After several million years of jostling for ecological space, only one survivor from a host of hominid species remains standing: us. Human beings are extraordinary creatures, and it is the unprecedented human brain that makes them so.In this delightfully accessible ... Read more

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  • The Plausibility of Life

    Resolving Darwin's Dilemma

    by Marc W. Kirschner, John C. Gerhart ...
    Two biologists tackle the unresolved question in the field of evolution: how have living organisms on Earth developed with such variety and complexity?In the 150 years since Darwin, the field of evolutionary biology has left a glaring gap in understanding how animals developed their astounding variety and complexity. The standard answer has been that small genetic mutations accumulate over time to ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Order

    Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution

    by Stuart A. Kauffman ...
    Stuart Kauffman here presents a brilliant new paradigm for evolutionary biology, one that extends the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to accommodate recent findings and perspectives from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics. The book drives to the heart of the exciting debate on the origins of life and maintenance of order in complex biological systems. It focuses on the ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • The Princeton Guide to Evolution

    by Jonathan B. Losos ...
    The essential one-volume reference to evolutionThe Princeton Guide to Evolution is a comprehensive, concise, and authoritative reference to the major subjects and key concepts in evolutionary biology, from genes to mass extinctions. Edited by a distinguished team of evolutionary biologists, with contributions from leading researchers, the guide contains some 100 clear, accurate, and up-to-date ... Read more

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  • The Basis of Progressive Evolution

    by G. Ledyard Stebbins ...
    In this incisive book, a distinguished geneticist has succeeded in relating the extraordinary biological discoveries of the last two decades to the basic questions about the origin and evolution of life on earth. The "molecular revolution" in biology--culminating in the discovery of the relations of the giant molecules of living matter--the operation of the genetic code, and the relational order ... Read more

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  • Human Population Genetics

    by John H. Relethford ...
    Series Book 7 - Foundation of Human Biology
    Introductory guide to human population genetics and microevolutionary theoryProviding an introduction to mathematical population genetics, Human Population Genetics gives basic background on the mechanisms of human microevolution. This text combines mathematics, biology, and anthropology and is best suited for advanced undergraduate and graduate study.Thorough and accessible, Human Population ... Read more

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  • Why DNA?

    From DNA Sequence to Biological Complexity

    by Andrew Travers ...
    Information is central to the evolution of biological complexity, a physical system relying on a continuous supply of energy. Biology provides superb examples of the consequent Darwinian selection of mechanisms for efficient energy utilisation. Genetic information, underpinned by the Watson-Crick base-pairing rules is largely encoded by DNA, a molecule uniquely adapted to its roles in information ... Read more

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  • Environmental Microbiology

    From Genomes to Biogeochemistry

    by Eugene L. Madsen ...
    This well-referenced, inquiry-driven text presents an up-to-date and comprehensive understanding of the emerging field of environmental microbiology.Coherent and comprehensive treatment of the dynamic, emerging field of environmental microbiologyEmphasis on real-world habitats and selective pressures experienced by naturally occurring microorganismsCase studies and “Science and the Citizen” ... Read more

    $102.99 USD