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SCIENCE:

Life Sciences

100 Butterflies and Moths
Jeffrey C. Miller
Daniel H. Janzen
Winifred Hallwachs
Large-format photographs of 100 tropical butterflies and moths gathered in the forests of northwestern Costa Rica document the dazzling variety of the butterflies and moths unique to this region. The authors recount these insects' feats of mimicry and migration, lift the veil on their courtship, and show how the new technology of DNA barcoding is changing the picture of Lepidopteran biodiversity.
Hardcover 2007
The Accidental Mind
David J. Linden
A guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, this book shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history.
Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008
The Acoustic Sense of Animals
William C. Stebbins
This immensely readable introduction to animal acoustics explains not only how animals hear but why they listen. It is a unique blend of audition, auditory anatomy, physics of sound, and methods of psychophysics, combined with behavior, natural history, and evolution.
Hardcover 1983
Adaptation and Natural Selection in Caves
David C. Culver
Thomas Kane
Daniel Fong
Focusing on one cave-dwelling crustacean, Gammarus minus, this book shows that cave life can provide a valuable empirical model for the study of evolution, particularly adaptation.
Hardcover
Aglow in the Dark
with a foreword by Sylvia Nasar
Vincent Pieribone
David F. Gruber
Foreword by Sylvia Nasar
The discovery of green fluorescent protein revolutionized molecular biology, transforming our study of everything from the AIDS virus to the workings of the brain. Aglow in the Dark follows the path that took this glowing compound from its inauspicious arrival on the scientific scene to its present-day eminence as one of the most groundbreaking discoveries of the twentieth century.
Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007
American Warblers
Douglass H. Morse
Hardcover 1989
Anatomy of the Guinea Pig
Gale Cooper, M.D
Alan L. Schiller, M.D
Hardcover 1975
Animal Body Fluids and Their Regulation
A. P. M. Lockwood
Life depends on the satisfactory functioning of protoplasm, and the functioning of protoplasm is in its turn dependent on its being bathed by a suitable medium. Animal Body Fluids and their Regulation is designed to introduce the student to some of the reasons why the composition of the bathing medium is so important and to the manner in which it is maintained. This book fills an important gap and should be especially useful to scholarship candidates and first year university students.
Hardcover 1963
Animal Cognition
Jacques Vauclair
Animal Cognition presents a lucid and comprehensive overview of cognitive processes in animals--bees and wasps, cats and dogs, dolphins and sea otters, pigeons, titmice, and chimpanzees--and offers a novel discussion of the ways in which Piagetian concepts may be used to develop models for the study of animal cognition.
Hardcover 1996
Animal Social Complexity
Frans B. M. de Waal, Editor
Peter L. Tyack, Editor
The editors of this volume argue that future research into complex animal societies and intelligence will change the perception of animals as gene machines, programmed to act in particular ways and perhaps elevate them to a status much closer to our own. At a time when humans are perceived more biologically than ever before, and animals as more cultural, are we about to witness the dawn of a truly unified social science, one with a distinctly cross-specific perspective?
Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
Animal Species and Evolution
Ernst Mayr
In a series of twenty chapters, Mr. Mayr presents a consecutive story, beginning with a description of evolutionary biology and ending with a discussion of man as a biological species. Calling attention to unsolved problems, and relating the evolutionary subject matter to appropriate material from other fields, such as physiology, genetics, and biochemistry, the author integrates and interprets existing data. Believing that an unequivocal stand is more likely to produce constructive criticism than evasion of an issue, he does not hesitate to choose that interpretation of a controversial matter which to him seems most consistent with the emerging picture of the evolutionary process.
Hardcover 1963
The Animal in its World (Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972, Volume I, Field Studies
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Together with Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen is generally acknowledged as the founder of the young science of ethology. These classic original studies will fascinate the increasing number if readers interested in the topical problems if animals and human behavior.
Hardcover 1972 / Paperback
The Animal in its World (Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972, Volume II, Laboratory Experiments and General Papers
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Paperback
Anthrax
Philipp Sarasin
Translated by Giselle Weiss
Many security experts believe that the next act of widespread terrorism will likely come from a weapon of biochemical means. In Anthrax: Bioterror as Fact and Fantasy, Philipp Sarasin explores the real threats of biological weapons--in contrast to the idea of biological substances as nebulous agents of terror--by analyzing the anthrax scares that occurred in the United States in 2001.Sarasin argues that while threats of bioterrorism are real, they are disproportionate to the fantasmal fears that now permeate American politics and culture.
Hardcover 2006
The Ants
Bert Hölldobler
Edward O. Wilson
This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Hölldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of the ants. In large format, with almost a thousand line drawings, photographs, and painting, it is one of the most visually rich and all-encompassing view of any group of organisms on earth. It will be welcomed both as an introduction to the subject and as an encyclopedia reference for researchers in entomology, ecology, and sociobiology.
Hardcover 1990
The Ape in the Tree
Alan Walker
Pat Shipman
This book offers a unique insider's perspective on the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution. It is written in the voice of Walker, whose involvement with Proconsul began when his graduate supervisor analyzed the tree-climbing adaptations in the arm and hand of this extinct creature. Today, Proconsul is the best-known fossil ape in the world and its attributes have profound implications for the very definition of humanness.
Hardcover 2005
Aristotle to Zoos
P. B. Medawar
J. S. Medawar
In the spirit of Voltaire--and occasionally in the spirit of P. G. Wodehouse--the Medawars have crafted for the life sciences a source of reference that is meant for browsing, a book both authoritative and tilled with delights.
Hardcover 1983 / Paperback 1985
Asian Honey Bees
with a foreword by Thomas D. Seeley
Benjamin P. Oldroyd
Siriwat Wongsiri
Foreword by Thomas D. Seeley
Benjamin Oldroyd has teamed with Siriwat Wongsiri to provide a comparative work synthesizing the rapidly expanding Asian honey bee literature. The authors underscore the pressures colonies face and detail the long and amazing history of the honey hunt. This book provides a cornerstone for future investigations on these species, insights into the evolution across species, and a direction for conservation efforts to protect these keystone species of Asia's tropical forests.
Hardcover 2006
Beautiful Minds
Maddalena Bearzi
Craig B. Stanford
Beautiful Minds explains how and why apes and dolphins are so distantly related yet so cognitively alike and what this teaches us about another large-brained mammal: Homo sapiens. Noting that apes and dolphins have had no common ancestor in nearly 100 million years, Bearzi and Stanford describe the parallel evolution that gave rise to their intelligence.
Hardcover 2008
The Behavior of Communicating
W. John Smith
In this book, W. John Smith enlarges ethology's perspective on communication and takes it in new directions. Smith's approach is deeply rooted in the ethological tradition of naturalistic observations. Detailed analysis of observed displays and display repertoires illuminates the theoretical discussion that forms the core of the book.
Hardcover 1977 / Paperback
Behavioral Mechanisms in Ecology
Douglass H. Morse
This readable text represents a much needed synthesis of ecological insight into animal behavior. Exploring the theme of resource acquisitions, Morse combines the comparative approach to biology with models based on evolutionary theory. Behavioral Mechanisms in Ecology will meet the teaching and reference needs of an extremely broad audience of professional biologists.
Hardcover 1980 / Paperback
Beyond the Zonules of Zinn
David Bainbridge
In his latest book, Bainbridge combines an otherworldly journey through the central nervous system with an accessible and entertaining account of how the brain's anatomy has often misled anatomists about its function. Bainbridge uses the structure of the brain to set his book apart from the many volumes that focus on brain function.
Hardcover 2008
Biogeography and Adaptation
Geerat J. Vermeij
Hardcover 1978 / Paperback
The Biological Century
Robert B. Barlow
John E. Dowling
Gerald Weissman
Garland Allen
In 1988, the famous Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) celebrated one hundred years of pioneering science. During the centennial festivities, many of the world's most renowned biologists assembled at MBL and delivered the Lab's traditional Friday Night Lectures. These lectures have been gathered and edited here by three participants. The history and scientific discovery in these pages should convey for any reader the excitement of the renowned laboratory and the drama and frustration of biology in the twentieth century.
Hardcover 1993
The Biology of Cell Reproduction
Renato Baserga
Since the Second World War, cell biology and molecular biology have worked separately in probing the central question of cancer research. But now a new alliance is being forged in the continuing effort to conquer cancer. Drawing on more than five hundred classic and recent references, Baserga's work provides the unifying background for this cross-fertilization of ideas.
Hardcover 1985
The Biology of the Honey Bee
Mark L. Winston
This book not only reviews the basic aspects of social behavior, ecology, anatomy, physiology, and genetics, it also summarizes major controversies in contemporary honey bee research, such as the importance of kin recognition in the evolution of social behavior and the role of the well-known dance language in honey bee communication. Thorough, well-illustrated, and lucidly written, it will for many years be a valuable resource for scholars, students, and beekeepers alike.
Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1991
Biophilia
Edward O. Wilson
Hardcover 1984 / Paperback 1986
Bird Coloration, Volume 1, Mechanisms and Measurements
Edited by Geoffrey E. Hill
Edited by Kevin J. McGraw
How birds produce the brilliant and striking coloration of their feathers and other body parts is the focus of this first volume of Bird Coloration. It has been more than 40 years since the mechanisms of color production of birds have been reviewed and synthesized. Geoffrey Hill and Kevin McGraw have assembled the world's leading experts in perception, measurement, and control of bird coloration to contribute to this book. This sumptuously illustrated volume synthesizes more than 1,500 technical papers in this field.
Hardcover 2006
Bird Coloration, Volume 2, Function and Evolution
Edited by Geoffrey E. Hill
Edited by Kevin J. McGraw
In this companion volume to Bird Coloration: Volume 1, Mechanisms and Measurements, Geoffrey E. Hill and Kevin J. McGraw explain the function of the colorful displays of birds and examine the factors that shape the evolution of color signals. This sumptuously illustrated book will be essential reading for biologists studying animal coloration, but it will also be treasured by anyone curious about why birds are colorful and how they got that way.
Hardcover 2006
Body and Brain
Dale Purves
Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990
Bolton's Catalogue of Ants of the World
Barry Bolton
Gary Alpert
Philip S. Ward
Piotr Naskrecki
Barry Bolton's New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World, published in 1995, was the first attempt in more than one hundred years to collect all taxonomic decisions for ants worldwide, including extinct as well as extant taxa. The new edition incorporates all taxonomic papers--from 1758 through 2005--on 14,550 species and subspecies of ants.
CD-ROM 2007
Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes
Edited by Michel Conan
Edited by W. John Kress
This book highlights the religious, artistic, political, and economic consequences of horticultural pursuits, exploring the roles of peasants, botanists, horticulturists, nurserymen and gentlemen collectors in these developments, and concluding with a reflection on the future of horticulture in the present context of widespread environmental devastation and ecological uncertainty.
Paperback 2007
Brain Arousal and Information Theory
Donald Pfaff
In Brain Arousal and Information Theory, Donald Pfaff presents a daring perspective on the long-standing puzzle of what arousal is. Pfaff argues that, beneath our mental functions and emotional dispositions, a primitive neuronal system governs arousal. Employing the simple but powerful framework of information theory, Pfaff revolutionizes our understanding of arousal systems in the brain.
Hardcover 2005
Built for Speed
John A. Byers
North America's fastest mammal, the pronghorn can accelerate explosively from a standing start to a top speed of 60 miles per hour--but it can also cruise at 45 miles per hour for many miles. What accounts for the speed of this extraordinary animal? And what is it like to be a field biologist dedicating twenty years to studying this species? In Built for Speed, John A. Byers answers these questions as he draws an intimate portrait of the most charismatic resident of the American Great Plains.
Hardcover 2003
Bumblebee Economics
with a new preface
Bernd Heinrich
In his new preface Bernd Heinrich ranges from Maine to Alaska and north to the Arctic as he summarizes findings from continuing investigations over the past twenty-five years--by him and others--into the wondrous "energy economy" of bumblebees.
Paperback 2004
The Cactus Primer
Arthur Gibson
Park Nobel
Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1990
The Case of the Female Orgasm
Elisabeth A. Lloyd
Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science? A judicious and revealing look at all twenty evolutionary accounts of the trait of human female orgasm, Lloyd's book is at the same time a case study of how certain biases steer science astray.
Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006
Cell Fusion
Henry Harris
Hardcover 1970
The Century of the Gene
Evelyn Fox Keller
In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene.
Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
Cerebral Dominance
Norman Geschwind, Editor
Albert M. Galaburda, Editor
Although cerebral dominance, the specialization of each side of the brain for different functions, was discovered in the 1860s, almost nothing was known for many years about its biological foundations, the study of which has undergone what can only be described as a revolution in the past decade and a half. Norman Geschwind and Albert Galaburda, two of the leaders of this new field, have assembled a distinguished group of investigators, each a pioneer in some aspect of the biology of dominance.
Hardcover 1984 / Paperback 1988
Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees
Lee Dugatkin
Biologist Lee Dugatkin outlines four paths to cooperation shared by humans and other animals: family dynamics, reciprocal transactions (or "tit for tat"), so-called selfish teamwork, and group altruism. He draws on a wealth of examples--from babysitting among mongooses and food sharing among vampire bats to cooperation in Hutterite communities and on kibbutzim--to show not only that cooperation exists throughout the animal kingdom, but how an understanding of the natural history of altruism might foster our own best instincts toward our fellow humans.
Paperback 2000
Chimpanzee Cultures
Richard Wrangham, Editor
W.C. McGrew, Editor
Frans B. M. de Waal, Editor
Paul Heltne, Editor
Foreword by Jane Goodall
The world's leading authorities on chimpanzees and bonobos chronicle the animals' behaviors from one study site to the next, in both captive and wild groups, in laboratory and field settings.
Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1996
Chimpanzee and Red Colobus
Craig B. Stanford
Richard Wrangham
This book, the first long-term field study of a predator-prey relationship involving two wild primates, documents a six-year investigation into how the risk of predation molds primate society. Taking us to Gombe National Park in Tanzania, a place made famous by Jane Goodall's studies, the book offers a close look at how predation by wild chimpanzees--observable in the park as nowhere else--has influenced the behavior, ecology, and demography of a population of red colobus monkeys.
Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2001
China and Charles Darwin
James Reeve Pusey
This study evaluates Darwin's theory of evolution as a stimulus to Chinese political changes and philosophic challenge to traditional Chinese beliefs. Pusey bases his analysis on a survey of journals issued from 1896 to 1910 and, after a break for revolutionary action, from 1915 to 1926, with emphasis on the era between the Sino-Japanese War and the Republician Revolution.
Hardcover 1983
The Chinese Garden
Maggie Keswick
Revised by Alison Hardie
Contributions by Charles Jencks
Updated and expanded in this third edition, with an introduction by Alison Hardie, many new illustrations, and an updated list of gardens in China accessible to visitors, Maggie Keswick's engaging work remains unparalleled as an introduction to the Chinese garden.
Hardcover 2003
The Code of Codes
Daniel Kevles, Editor
Leroy Hood, Editor
The human genome defines our possibilities and limitations as members of the species. The ultimate goal of the pioneering project outlined in this book is to map our genome in detail. The Code of Codes is a collective exploration of the substance and possible consequences of this project in relation to ethics, law, and society as well as to science, technology, and medicine.
Hardcover 1992 / Paperback
Coding and Redundancy
Jack P. Hailman
This book explores the strikingly similar ways in which information is encoded in nonverbal man-made signals (e.g., traffic lights and tornado sirens) and animal-evolved signals (e.g., color patterns and vocalizations). Appealing not only to specialists in semiotics, animal behavior, psychology, and allied fields but also to general readers, it serves as an introduction to animal signaling and to an important class of human communication.
Hardcover 2008
Comparative Physiology of Vertebrate Respiration
G. M. Hughes
This book is a concise study of the structure and function of vertebrate respiratory systems. It describes not only the individual organ systems, but also the relationship of these systems to each other and to the animal's environment.
Hardcover 1963
Corn
Paul C. Mangelsdorf
Corn is among the most familiar of grains; it is also one of the most mysterious. In this handsomely illustrated book, Mangelsdorf summarizes the work of a lifetime devoted to unraveling the enigma of corn.
Hardcover 1974
Crafting Science
Joan Fujimura
During the late 1970s and 1980s, "cancer" underwent a transformation: what had long been a set of heterogeneous diseases marked by uncontrolled cell growth became a disease of our genes. How this happened and what it means is the story Joan Fujimura tells in a rare inside look at the way science works and knowledge is created.
Hardcover
The Creationists
Ronald L. Numbers
In light of the embattled status of evolutionary theory, particularly as "intelligent design" makes headway against Darwinism in the schools and in the courts, this now classic account of the roots of creationism assumes new relevance. Expanded and updated to account for the appeal of intelligent design and the global spread of creationism, The Creationists offers a thorough, clear, and balanced overview of the arguments and figures at the heart of the debate.
Paperback 2006
Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos
Vincent G. Dethier
"Vincent Dethier shows us how to listen for sound in fields, edges, and woods and to become aware of the movements that accompany sound...We learn from his sounds what kind of person, capable of this kind of interest and care, is attending to our minds. His own sound becomes part of the community of sound common to most, if not nearly all, life, so we are doubly trained to hear, and we become doubly committed to understanding and caring for all forms of life."
--A. R. Ammons, from the foreword
Hardcover
The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees
Karl von Frisch
Leigh Chadwick, Translator
Thomas D. Seeley
This is the masterwork of the world's most renowned authority on bees--the culmination of more than fifty years of research. It describes in non-technical language what von Frisch discovered about their methods of orientation, their sensory faculties, and their remarkable ability to communicate with one another. Seeley's foreword traces the revolutionary effects of this work, not just for the study of honeybees, but for all subsequent research in animal behavior.
Hardcover 1967 / Paperback
Dangerous Garden
David Stuart
Gardener and botanist David Stuart tells the fascinating story of botanical medicine, and chronicles how the herbal materia medica of healing and killing plants has sparked wars, helped establish intercontinental trade routes, and seeded fortunes.
Hardcover 2004
Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge
Henry Plotkin
Bringing together evolutionary biology, psychology, and philosophy, Henry Plotkin presents a new science of knowledge that traces an unbreakable link between instinct and our ability to know. Since our ability to know our world depends primarily on what we call intelligence, intelligence must be understood as an extension of instinct. The capacity for knowledge is deeply rooted in our biology and, in a special sense, is shared by all living things.
Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1997
Darwin and Design
Michael Ruse
In clear, non-technical language, Ruse offers a full and fair assessment of the status of the argument from design in light of both the advances of modern evolutionary biology and the thinking of today's philosophers--with special attention given to the supporters and critics of "intelligent design." The first comprehensive history and exposition of Western thought about design in the natural world, this important work suggests directions for our thinking as we move into the twenty-first century.
Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004
Darwin and the Novelists
George Levine
Hardcover 1988
Deadly Cultures
Edited by Mark Wheelis
Edited by Lajos Rózsa
Edited by Malcolm Dando
The threat of biological weapons has never attracted as much public attention as in the past five years. Yet there has been little historical analysis of such weapons over the past half-century. Deadly Cultures sets out to fill this gap by analyzing the historical developments since 1945 and addressing three central issues: why states have continued or begun programs for acquiring biological weapons, why states have terminated biological weapons programs, and how states have demonstrated that they have truly terminated their biological weapons programs.
Hardcover 2006
Defining Biology
Jane Maienschein, Editor
The 1890s was an exciting time in American biology, a time of great intellectual debate and turmoil. Much of this activity centered on the now-famous Evening Lectures delivered at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory on Cape Cod, where leading biologists gathered to research the leading issues of the day. Jane Maienschein has selected key lectures, written an introductory essay, and provided brief explanations of the significance and impact of each lecture.
Hardcover 1986
The Delphic Boat
Antoine Danchin
Alison Quayle, Translator
By the end of 2001, almost 500 genome programs were completed or under way. Drawing upon what researchers worldwide are learning from the gene sequences of bacteria, plants, fungi, fruit flies, worms, and humans, Danchin shows us how genomes are far more than mere collections of genes.
Hardcover 2003
A Desert Calling
Michael A. Mares
Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould
For most of us the word "desert" conjures up images of barren wasteland, vast, dry stretches inimical to life. But for a great array of creatures, the desert is a haven and a home. Travel with Mares into the deserts of Argentina, Iran, Egypt, and the American Southwest to encounter a rich and memorable variety of small, tenacious animals.
Hardcover 2002
The Dialectical Biologist
Richard Levins
Richard Lewontin
Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists always choose sides. The Dialectical Biologist explores this political nature of scientific inquiry, advancing its argument within the framework of Marxist dialectic. These essays stress the concepts of continual change and co-determination between organism and environment, part and whole, structure and process, science and politics. Throughout, this book questions our accepted definitions and biases, showing the self-reflective nature of scientific activity within society.
Paperback
A Dictionary of Ethology
Klaus Immelmann
Colin Beer
Paperback / Hardcover
The Diversity of Life
Edward O. Wilson
Wilson, internationally regarded as the dean of biodiversity studies, conducts us on a tour through time, traces the processes that create new species in bursts of adaptive radiation, and points out the cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution and diminished global diversity over the past 600 million years.
Hardcover
The Diversity of Life, Special Edition
Edward O. Wilson
Wilson, internationally regarded as the dean of biodiversity studies, conducts us on a tour through time, traces the processes that create new species in bursts of adaptive radiation, and points out the cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution and diminished global diversity over the past 600 million years.
Hardcover
Drugs and Foods from Little-Known Plants
Siri von Reis Altschul
Hardcover
Ecology and Evolution of Communities
Martin Cody
Jared Diamond
In recent times, the science of ecology has been rejuvenated and has moved to a central position in biology. This volume contains eighteen original, major contributions by leaders in the field, all associates of the late Robert MacArthur, whose work has stimulated many of the recent developments in ecology. The intellectual ferment of the field is reflected in these papers, which offer new models for ecological processes, new applications of theoretical and quantitative techniques, and new methods for analyzing and interpreting a wide variety of empirical data.
Hardcover 1975 / Paperback
The Ecology of Neotropical Savannas
Guillermo Sarmiento
Translated by Otto T. Solbrig
Sarmiento is an unquestionable authority on the grasslands of the New World. His book is the first modern, integrated view of the genesis and function of this important natural system--a synthesis of savanna architecture, seasonal rhythms, productive processes, and water and nutrient economy.
Hardcover 1984
Emily Dickinson's Herbarium
Emily Dickinson
Introduction by Richard B. Sewall
Foreword by Leslie A. Morris
Preface by Judith Farr
Appendix by Raymond Angelo
Emily Dickinson's album of more than 400 pressed flowers and plants, carefully preserved, has long been a treasure of Harvard's Houghton Library. This beautifully produced, slipcased volume now makes it available to all readers interested in Emily Dickinson. Introduced by a substantial literary and biographical essay, and including a complete botanical catalog and index, this volume will delight scholars, gardeners, and all readers of Emily Dickinson's poetry.
Hardcover 2006
Endocrinology of Social Relationships
Edited by Peter T. Ellison
Edited by Peter B. Gray
This book, a rare melding of human and animal research and theoretical and empirical science, ventures into the most interesting realms of behavioral biology to examine the intimate role of endocrinology in social relationships.
Hardcover 2009
Evolution
Edited by Michael Ruse
Edited by Joseph Travis
Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, authoritative, and inviting one-volume introduction to evolutionary biology available.
Hardcover 2009
Evolution and the Diversity of Life
Ernst Mayr
The diversity of living forms and the unity of evolutionary processes are themes that have permeated the research and writing of Ernst Mayr, a Grand Master of evolutionary biology. The essays collected here are among his most valuable and durable: contributions that form the basis for much of the contemporary understanding of evolutionary biology.
Hardcover 1976 / Paperback 1997
Evolution of African Mammals
Vincent J. Maglio, Editor
H. B. S. Cooke, Editor
Hardcover 1979
The Evolution of Racism
Pat Shipman
Through the original controversy over evolutionary theory in Darwin's time; the corruption of evolutionary theory into eugenics; the conflict between laboratory research in genetics and fieldwork in physical anthropology and biology; and the continuing controversies over the heritability of intelligence, criminal behavior, and other traits, this book explains both prewar eugenics and postwar taboos on letting the insights of genetics and evolution into the study of humanity.
Paperback 2002
The Evolution-Creation Struggle
Michael Ruse
In his latest book, Ruse uncovers surprising similarities between evolutionist and creationist thinking. Exploring the underlying philosophical commitments of evolutionists, he reveals that those most hostile to religion are just as evangelical as their fundamentalist opponents. But more crucially, and reaching beyond the biblical issues at stake, he demonstrates that these two diametrically opposed ideologies have, since the Enlightenment, engaged in a struggle for the privilege of defining human origins, moral values, and the nature of reality.
Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006
Evolutionary Dynamics
Martin A. Nowak
At a time of unprecedented expansion in the life sciences, evolution is the one theory that transcends all of biology. In this book, Martin Nowak draws on the languages of biology and mathematics to outline the mathematical principles according to which life evolves. His book makes a clear and compelling case for understanding every living system--and everything that arises as a consequence of living systems--in terms of evolutionary dynamics.
Hardcover 2006
The Evolving World
David P. Mindell
Today, evolutionary biology is much more than an explanatory concept. It is indispensable to the world we live in. This book provides the first truly accessible and balanced account of how evolution has become a tool with applications that are thoroughly integrated, and deeply useful, in our everyday lives and our societies, often in ways that we do not realize. The Evolving World convinces us as never before that evolutionary biology has become absolutely necessary for human existence.
Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation
Gregor Mendel
Paperback 1965
Explorations in Developmental Biology
Chandler Fulton
Attila Klein
Hardcover 1976
Explorations in the Life of Fishes
N. B. Marshall
Exploring what he considers to be the outstanding aspects of fish biology, Mr. Marshall surveys the present knowledge in the field and suggests possibilities for future investigation. He considers the causes of the overwhelming predominance of the teleost fishes, discusses the biology of deep-sea fishes, and studies such aspects of dynamic design as body form, fin pattern, muscular organization, and certain neural features in relation to movement and water.
Hardcover 1971
The Extended Organism
J. Scott Turner
Building on Richard Dawkins's classic, The Extended Phenotype, physiological ecologist Scott Turner shows why drawing the boundary of an organism's physiology at the skin of the animal is arbitrary. Since the structures that animals build undoubtedly do physiological work, capturing and channeling chemical and physical energy, Turner argues that such structures are more properly regarded not as frozen behaviors but as external organs of physiology and even extensions of the animal's phenotype.
Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
Fetus into Man
J. M. Tanner
Here is a brief and authoritative account of human physical growth, beautifully written by one of the world's foremost experts. In Fetus into Man Professor Tanner tells the story of growth in language that is both accessible to the nonbiologist and acceptable to the biologist.
Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
The Fire Ants
Walter R. Tschinkel
In The Fire Ants, Walter Tschinkel provides not just an encyclopedic overview of Solenopsis invicta but a lively account of how research is done, how science establishes facts, and the pleasures and problems of a scientific career. The reader learns much about ants, the practice of science, and humans' role in the fire ant's North American success.
Hardcover 2006
Flowering Plants
G. Ledyard Stebbins
One of the world's leading evolutionary biologists here reexamines the evolutionary history of flowering plants. This important book interprets the phylogeny of flowering plants in the light of modern knowledge about genetics, developmental biology, and ecology.
Hardcover 1974
A Fly for the Prosecution
M. Lee Goff
To Lee Goff and his fellow forensic entomologists, each body recovered at a crime scene is an ecosystem, a unique microenvironment colonized in succession by a diverse array of flies, beetles, mites, spiders, and other arthropods. Using actual cases on which he has consulted, Goff shows how knowledge of these insects and their habits allows forensic entomologists to furnish investigators with crucial evidence about crimes.
Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
For Love of Insects
Thomas Eisner
Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their bodies; termites emitting a viscous glue to rally fellow soldiers--and you will have entered an insect world once beyond imagining, a world observed and described down to its tiniest astonishing detail by Thomas Eisner. The story of a lifetime of such minute explorations, For Love of Insects celebrates the small creatures that have emerged triumphant on the planet, the beneficiaries of extraordinary evolutionary inventiveness and unparalleled reproductive capacity.
Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
For the Love of Enzymes
Arthur Kornberg
Kornberg describes his successive research problems, the challenges they presented, and the ultimate accomplishments that resulted, he provides us with a primer in the strategies needed to do scientific work of great significance. This book will challenge students of biology and chemistry at all levels who want to do important work rather than simply follow popular trends. It will also delight and inform readers who wish to understand how "real" science is done, and to learn of the values that guide one of our greatest researchers.
Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1991
Foraminifera
4th Revised and Enlarged Edition
Joseph A. Cushman
This is the fourth revised and enlarged edition of the standard guide to the Foraminifera, the order of small marine Protozoa whose living and fossilized forms have attracted both scientific and economic interest during the past century. Fifty families, including about seven hundred and fifty genera, are systematically described and illustrated in the text and Key.
Hardcover 1948
The Foul and the Fragrant
Alain Corbin
In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the historical map. He conjures up the dominion that the combined forces of smells--from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental odors of city cesspools--exercised over the lives (and deaths) of the French in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Hardcover 1986 / Paperback
Fruits and Plains
Philip J. Pauly
Plant engineering has a long history, and Pauly urges us to think of horticulturists as pioneer "biotechnologists," hacking their plants to create a landscape that reflects their ambitions and ideals. In telling the histories of Concord grapes and Japanese cherry trees, the problem of the prairie and the war on the Medfly, Pauly hopes to provide a new understanding of not only how horticulture shaped the vegetation around us, but how it influenced our experiences of the native, the naturalized, and the alien.
Hardcover 2008
Gene Sharing and Evolution
Joram Piatigorsky
In Gene Sharing and Evolution Piatigorsky explores the generality and implications of gene sharing throughout evolution and argues that most if not all proteins perform a variety of functions in the same and in different species, and that this is a fundamental necessity for evolution.
Hardcover 2007
The Generation of Diversity
Scott H. Podolsky
Alfred I. Tauber
The Generation of Diversity is an intellectual history of the major theoretical problem in immunology and its resolution in the post-World War II period. In recent decades immunology has been one of the most exciting--and successful--fields of biomedical research, and this book will provide essential background for understanding the conceptual conflicts occurring in the field today.
Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
Genes in Conflict
Austin Burt
Robert Trivers
Covering all species from yeast to humans, this is the first book to tell the story of selfish genetic elements that act narrowly to advance their own replication at the expense of the larger organism.
Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
Genethics
David Suzuki
Peter Knudtson
Genethics is the most lucid and authoritative guide for general readers to modern genetic technology and the myriad ethical issues it raises.
Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1990
The Genus Lesquerella (Cruciferae) in North America
Reed C. Rollins
Elizabeth A. Shaw
Hardcover 1973
A Glossary of Mycology
Walter Snell
Esther A. Dick
Nearly 7000 terms--technical terms and their derivations; common or popular, vernacular, and obsolete terms; terms used in the field of medical mycology and antibiotics; names of the originators of terms; folklore terms; and color terms--were covered by the original edition. Also included were terms which, though not strictly mycological, occur frequently in literature of particular interest to mycologists.
Hardcover 1971
Good Natured
Frans B. M. de Waal
Frans de Waal takes on those who have declared ethics uniquely human. Making a compelling case for a morality grounded in biology, he shows that ethical behavior, in humans and animals alike, is as much a matter of evolution as any other trait.
Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
Robin Dunbar
What Robin Dunbar suggests--and his research, whether in the realm of primatology or in that of gossip, confirms--is that humans developed language to serve the purpose that grooming served, but far more efficiently. From the nit-picking of chimpanzees to our chats at coffee break, from neuroscience to paleoanthropology, Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language offers a provocative view of what makes us human.
Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
The Growth of Biological Thought
Ernst Mayr
No one in this century can speak with greater authority on the progress of ideas in biology than Ernst Mayr. And no book has ever established the life sciences so firmly in the mainstream of Western intellectual history as The Growth of Biological Thought. Ten years in preparation, this is a work of epic proportions, tracing the development of the major problems of biology from the earliest attempts to find order in the diversity of life, to modern research into the mechanisms of gene transmission.
Hardcover 1982 / Paperback 1985
A Guinea Pig's History of Biology
Jim Endersby
Hardcover 2007
Harvestmen
Edited by Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha
Edited by Glauco Machado
Edited by Gonzalo Giribet
This is the first comprehensive treatment of a major order of arachnids featuring more than 6,000 species worldwide, familiar in North America as daddy-longlegs but known scientifically as the Opiliones, or harvestmen. The 25 authors provide a broad taxonomic and ecological background for understanding this major arachnid group, the book should give field biologists worldwide the means to identify specimens and provide an invaluable reference for understanding harvestmen diversity and biology.
Hardcover 2007
Heredity and Hope
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Neither minimizing the difficulty of the choices that modern genetics has created for us nor fearing them, Cowan argues that we can improve the quality of our own lives and the lives of our children by using the modern science and technology of genetic screening responsibly.
Hardcover 2008
Hierarchy in the Forest
Christopher Boehm
The political flexibility of our species is formidable: we can be quite egalitarian, we can be quite despotic. Hierarchy in the Forest traces the roots of these contradictory traits in chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and early human societies. Anthropologist Christopher Boehm looks at the loose group structures of hunter-gatherers, then at tribal segmentation, and finally at present-day governments to see how these conflicting tendencies are reflected. He postulates that egalitarianism is in effect a hierarchy in which the weak combine forces to dominate the strong.
Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001
Hinduism and Ecology
Christopher Key Chapple, Editor
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Editor
This fourth volume in the series exploring religions and the environment investigates the role of the multifaceted Hindu tradition in the development of greater ecological awareness in India. The twenty-two contributors ask how traditional concepts of nature in the classical texts might inspire or impede an eco-friendly attitude among modern Hindus, and they describe some grassroots approaches to environmental protection.
Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000
Hispaniola
Biodiversidad a Través de un Recorrido Fotográfico
Eladio Fernández
Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
Introduction by Philippe Bayard
Translated by Irina P. Ferreras
Translated by Gustavo Romero
A Dominican-based conservationist and photographer, Fernández is documenting the efforts of a distinguished team of international scientists as they unravel the workings of evolution being played out on the island of Hispaniola. What Fernández captures here so vividly is not just the amazing variety of living creatures that have erupted in evolutionary isolation, but the urgency of scientists racing to give that variety a name before it vanishes.
Hardcover 2007
Historical Biogeography
Jorge V. Crisci
Liliana Katinas
Paula Posadas
This book makes sense of the profound revolution that historical biogeography has undergone in the last two decades, and of the resulting confusion over its foundations, basic concepts, methods, and relationships to other disciplines of comparative biology. Using case studies, the authors explain and illustrate the fundamentals and the most frequently used methods of this discipline. They show the reader how to tell when a historical biogeographic approach is called for, how to decide what kind of data to collect, how to choose the best method for the problem at hand, how to perform the necessary calculations, how to choose and apply a computer program, and how to interpret results.
Hardcover 2003
A History of Molecular Biology
Michel Morange
Matthew Cobb, Translator
This book offers a concise account for a general readership of the history of molecular biology. Michel Morange, himself a molecular biologist, takes us from the turn-of-the-century convergence of molecular biology's two progenitors, genetics and biochemistry, to the perfection of gene splicing and cloning techniques in the 1980s.
Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
Horse Power
Juliet Clutton-Brock
Hardcover
The Hot-Blooded Insects
Bernd Heinrich
Hardcover
Human Gene Therapy
Eve Nichols
Nichols explores the potential for gene therapy and identifies those who are candidates for it. Having provided a biomedical background for understanding somatic cell gene therapy, she takes a thoughtful look at complex and sensitive issues surrounding ethical, economic, and policy aspects of manipulating human genes.
Paperback 1988
Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World
Barry Bolton
This book, by the world's leading ant taxonomist, offers a definitive guide for identifying these ubiquitous insects. Barry Bolton provides identification keys to all the living ant subfamilies and genera, presented in alphabetical order and separated by zoogeographical region. Designed for professional and amateur myrmecologists alike, this guide is a accessible as it is comprehensive, including information on the function and use of identification keys, instructions for preparing specimens for examination, and an illustrated glossary of morphological terms. Over 500 scanning electron microscope photographs illustrate the taxonomic keys.
Hardcover
Imperial Ecology
Peder Anker
From 1895 to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Anker asks why ecology expanded so rapidly and how a handful of influential scientists and politicians established a tripartite ecology of nature, knowledge, and society.
Hardcover 2002
In Pursuit of the Gene
James Schwartz
Schwartz presents the history of genetics through the eyes of a dozen or so central players, beginning with Charles Darwin and ending with Nobel laureate Hermann J. Muller. This book offers readers the background they need to understand the latest findings in genetics and those still to come in the search for the genetic basis of complex diseases and traits.
Hardcover 2008
In a Patch of Fireweed
Bernd Heinrich
Part autobiography, part case study in the ways of field biology, In a Patch of Fireweed is an endlessly fascinating account of a scientist's life and work. For the author, it is an opportunity to report not just his results but the curiosity, humor, error, passion, and competitiveness that feed into the process of discovery. For the reader, it is simply a delight, a rare chance to share the perceptions of an unusual mind fully in tune with the inner workings of nature.
Hardcover 1984 / Paperback 1991
In the Company of Mushrooms
Elio Schaechter
Few of us realize that mushrooms, humbly thriving on decay, are crucial to life on Earth. In this book a distinguished molecular biologist reveals the power of these curious organisms--not quite animal, not quite plant--to enchant and instruct, to nourish and make way for all sorts of superior forms of nature. From the biology of our favorite fungi to tales of the truffle hunt, Schaechter brings contagious enthusiasm to the story of mushrooms.
Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
In the Name of Eugenics
Daniel Kevles
Daniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics--the science of "improving" the human species by exploiting theories of heredity--from its inception in the late nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation within the field of genetic engineering.
Paperback 1998
The Insect Societies
Edward O. Wilson
This book is a work of major importance for the development of environmental and behavioral biology; it covers the classification, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the higher social insects--ants, social wasps and bees, and termites. Mr. Wilson reinterprets the knowledge of these insects through the concepts of modern biology, from biochemistry to evolutionary theory and population ecology. View a video on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities".
Hardcover 1971 / Paperback
Insects on Plants
D. R. Strong
J. H. Lawton
Richard Southwood
Paperback
Insects through the Seasons
Gilbert Waldbauer
The unparalleled success of insects is the story told in this highly entertaining book. How do these often tiny but indefatigable creatures do it? Gilbert Waldbauer pursues this question from hot springs and Himalayan slopes to roadsides and forests, scrutinizing insect life in its many manifestations.
Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
Interfaces in Microbial Ecology
K. C. Marshall
An interface, the boundary between two phases, has physical and chemical properties that differ from those of either phase. In this book, bacteria are treated as living colloidal systems, and the behavior of microorganisms at interfaces is analyzed on the basis of this concept. Nonspecific physical and chemical forces acting on microorganisms at interfaces are described and related to biological factors determining the distribution of and interaction between microorganisms in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
Hardcover 1976
It's a Matter of Survival
Anita Gordon
David Suzuki
More than a book on the environment, this is a book about us as a species: our shortsightedness, our failure to read the warnings, our inability to grasp the significance of our actions-and the tough decisions we have to make in order to save ourselves. Anita Gordon and David Suzuki warn us of the transition we will need to make if we are to arrive safely in the next century. The power of the book lies in the consensus of the many voices, those of scientists and other scholars, that speak through it.
Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1992
Journey to the Ants
Bert Hölldobler
Edward O. Wilson
Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. The authors interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building a remarkable account of these abundant insects' evolutionary achievement.
Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1998
Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Brian K. Hall, Editor
Wendy M. Olson, Editor
Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology is the first comprehensive reference work for this expanding field. Covering more than fifty central terms and concepts in entries written by leading experts, it offers an overview of all that is embraced by this new subdiscipline of biology, providing the core insights and ideas that show how embryonic development relates to life-history evolution, adaptation, and responses to and integration with environmental factors.
Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006
The Langurs of Abu
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Hardcover 1978 / Paperback
Lessons from an Optical Illusion
Edward M. Hundert
This book is a bold, modern recasting of the age-old nature-nurture debate, informed by revolutionary insights from brain science, artificial intelligence, psychiatry, linguistics, evolutionary biology, child development, ethics, and even cosmology.
Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997
The Life of Yeasts, 2nd rev. and enlarged ed
H. J. Phaff
M. W. Miller
E. M. Mrak
Praised as "one of those rare scientific books that can be read both for pleasure and instruction" when it was first published, The Life of Yeasts now appears in a new edition incorporating the exciting developments of the last decade.This book is written for the nonspecialist who wishes to understand the yeasts, but not necessarily to become an expert on them. The new edition covers recent and major advances in the morphology, physiology, genetics, and ecology of these organisms, which have long been important in commerce and medicine and are ever more studied in the laboratory as prototypical eukaryotes.
Hardcover 1978
Living Without Oxygen
Peter W. Hochachka
Innumerable clinical problems have as their basis some derangement in oxygen-dependent metabolism. To explore mechanisms of adjusting to oxygen limitation, Living without Oxygen presents a bestiary of exotic anaerobes that illuminate elements of metabolic biochemistry only dimly seen in studies using standard experimental animals. The book places the enzymatic and biochemical machinery firmly in the biological context and assumes only a modest familiarity with bioenergetics and metabolic biochemistry.
Hardcover 1980
Living at Micro Scale
David B. Dusenbery
It isn’t easy being small. Dusenbery uses straightforward physics to demonstrate the constraints on the size, shape, and behavior of tiny organisms. While recounting the historical development of the basic concepts, he unearths a corner of microbiology rich in history, and full of lessons about how science does or does not progress.
Hardcover 2009
Lucy’s Legacy
Alison Jolly
We cannot be certain that Lucy was female--the bones themselves do not tell us. However, we do know, as Alison Jolly points out, that the females who came after Lucy--more adept than their males in verbal facility, sharing food, and migrating among places and groups--played as crucial a role in the human evolutionary process as "man" ever did. In a book that takes us from the first cell to global society, Jolly shows us that to learn where we came from and where we go next, we need to understand how sex and intelligence, cooperation and love, emerged from the harsh Darwinian struggle in the past.
Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001
Making Babies
David Bainbridge
Making Babies sets the latest findings in pregnancy biology in a challenging evolutionary, historical, and sociological context, proving that when it comes to drama, pregnancy has it all: sibling rivalry, a battle of the sexes, and a crisis of gender identity. Entertaining and informative, Making Babies shows how the study of human pregnancy can help us understand our genesis as individuals and our evolution as a species, and provide insight into who we are and why we behave as we do.
Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003
The Man Who Invented the Chromosome
Oren Solomon Harman
Harman follows Darlington's path from bleak prospects to world fame, showing how, within the most miniscule of worlds, he sought answers to the biggest questions--how species originate, how variation occurs, how Nature makes her way from deep past to unknown future. But Darlington did not stop there: Chromosomes held within their tiny confines untold, dark truths about man and his culture. This passionate conviction led the once famed Darlington down a path of rebuke, isolation, and finally obscurity.
Hardcover 2004
Manipulative Monkeys
Susan Perry
Joseph H. Manson, With
This book takes us into a Costa Rican forest teeming with simian drama, where since 1990 primatologists Perry and Manson have followed four generations of capuchins. The authors describe behavior as entertaining--and occasionally as alarming--as it is recognizable: competition and cooperation, jockeying for position and status, peaceful years under an alpha male devolving into bloody chaos, and complex traditions passed from one generation to the next. Interspersed with their observations are the authors' colorful tales of the challenges of tropical fieldwork.
Hardcover 2008
Men
Richard G. Bribiescas
Men presents a new approach to understanding the human male by drawing upon life history and evolutionary theory.
Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
The Mermaid’s Tale
Kenneth M. Weiss
Anne V. Buchanan
Although relentless competitive natural selection is widely assumed to be the primary mover of evolutionary change, this book shows how life more generally works on the basis of cooperation. The book reveals that the focus on competition and cooperation is largely an artifact of the compression of time—a distortion that dissolves when the nature and origins of adapted life are viewed primarily from developmental and evolutionary time scales.
Hardcover 2009
Metabolic Arrest and the Control of Biological Time
Peter W. Hochachka
Michael Guppy
What mechanisms turn down (or off) cell metabolism and other cell functions? How does an animal such as an opossum know when to activate mechanisms for slowing or stopping tissue and organ functions? These capabilities raise important questions, which Hochachka and Guppy explore in this seminal new book. This is a pioneering book of great use to biomedical/clinical researchers and to biologists, biochemists, and physiologists generally.
Hardcover 1987
Millions of Monarchs, Bunches of Beetles
Gilbert Waldbauer
Insects that are the least bit social may gather in modest groups, like the dozen or so sawfly larvae feeding on a pine needle, or they may form huge masses, like a swarm of migratory locusts in Africa or a cloud of mayflies at the edge of a midwestern lake. Why these insects get together and what they get out of their associations are questions finely and fully considered in this learned and entertaining look at the group behavior and social lives of a wide array of bugs.
Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
The Misunderstood Gene
Michel Morange
Matthew Cobb, Translator
This is an engaging tour of the most recent findings in molecular biology that shows how--and if--genes contribute to biological processes and complex human behaviors. Morange shows us that there is far more richness and meaning in the structure and interactions of proteins than in all the theoretical speculations on the role of genes.
Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002
Molecular Specialization and Symmetry in Membrane Function
Arthur K. Solomon
Manfred Karnovsky
In this book, leading investigators of membrane structure and function report on progress in three related fields: specialization of membrane regions, asymmetry in transport properties, and differentiation of cell faces in epithelia.
Hardcover 1978
Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons
Peter J. Bowler
Bowler doesn't minimize the hostility of many of the faithful toward evolution, but he reveals the less well-known existence of a long tradition within the churches that sought to reconcile Christian beliefs with evolution by finding reflections of the divine in scientific explanations for the origin of life. By tracing the historical forerunners of these rival Christian responses, Bowler provides a valuable alternative to accounts that stress only the escalating confrontation.
Hardcover 2007
More than Kin and Less than Kind
Douglas W. Mock
Sibling rivalry and intergenerational conflict are not limited to human beings. Among seals and piglets, storks and burying beetles, in bird nests and beehives, from apples to humans, family conflicts can be deadly serious, determining who will survive and who will perish. When offspring compete for scarce resources, parents sometime play favorites or even kill their young. Mock tells us what scientists have discovered about this disturbing side of family dynamics in the natural world.
Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
The Negev
Michael Evenari
Leslie Shanan
Naphtali Tadmor
The Negev, first published over a decade ago, told the story of some twenty years of study of southern Israel's desert. Now Michael Evenari has amplified the book with data from another decade of work. He describes the efforts at a new farm at Wadi Mashash, extends the weather data another ten years, presents further work on the adaptations of plants and animals to desert conditions, and takes a much deeper look at the historical precedents for the method of runoff agriculture.
Hardcover 1982
New England Forests Through Time
David R. Foster
John F. O'Keefe
In New England Forests through Time historical and environmental lessons are told through the world-renowned dioramas in Harvard's Fisher Museum. These remarkable models have introduced New England's landscape to countless visitors and have appeared in many ecology, forestry, and natural history texts. This first book based on the dioramas conveys the phenomenal history of the land, the beauty of the models, and new insights into nature.
Paperback 2000
New England Life in the 18th Century
Clifford Shipton
In 1859 John Langdon Sibley projected and began a series of biographical sketches of all Harvard graduates; at his death in 1885 he had published three volumes, covering the Classes from 1642 through 1689. In 1930 the work was resumed by Clifford Shipton, who carried the series through the Class of 1750. This book offers a representative selection from the nine volumes of Shipton's biographies; together they form a cross section of Colonial life.
Hardcover 1963 / Paperback 1995
New England Natives
Sheila Connor
Taking us back to the birth of New England's forests, Sheila Connor shows us these trees evolving amidst a succession of human cultures, from the Archaic Indians who crafted canoes from white birch and snowshoes from ash, to the colonists who built ships of oak and pine, to the industrialists who laid railroad tracks on chestnut timber, to the tanners who used hemlock bark to treat the leather required to shoe the Union army. Lavishly illustrated.
Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
New Plant Sources for Drugs and Foods from the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium
Siri von Reis
Frank J. Lipp, Jr
This companion volume to Siri von Reis's previous exploration of ethnobotanical notes in the Harvard herbaria brings to light a new array of plants with drug or food potential, offering wide-ranging possible applications for pharmacologists, chemists, botanists, and even anthropologists.
Hardcover 1982
The North American Grasshoppers, Volume 1, Acrididae
Daniel Otte
Hardcover 1981
The North American Grasshoppers, Volume II, Acrididae
Daniel Otte
Having received such lavish praise for the first volume of his definitive taxonomic handbook, Daniel Otte now turns his attention to the bandwing grasshoppers. Like its predecessor, this volume will be useful to scientists in agriculture, environmental assessment, biogeography, grassland ecology, and insect taxonomy. It will also appeal to amateur naturalists.
Hardcover 1985
Oakes Ames
Pauline Ames Plimpton, Editor
George Plimpton
Oakes Ames was one of the group of extraordinary teachers that Harvard drew to its faculty under Eliot and Lowell; he devoted his life to the study and teaching of Botany and became a world authority on orchids and economic botany, directing the Botanical Museum and the Arnold Arboretum. Collected and edited by Pauline Ames Plimpton, his daughter, and with a Foreword by George Plimpton, his grandson, these journals, letters and diaries, written in the first half of the century, give a vivid autobiographic picture of the era.
Hardcover 1980
On Development
John Tyler Bonner
Hardcover / Paperback
On Fertile Ground
Peter T. Ellison
Ranging from the latest achievements of modern fertility clinics to the lives of subsistence farmers in the rain forests of Africa, this book offers both a remarkably broad and a minutely detailed exploration of human reproduction. Ellison combines the perspectives of anthropology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.
Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003
On Human Nature
With a new Preface
Edward O. Wilson
In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the understanding of human behavior.
Paperback 2004
On Integration in Plants
Rudolf Dostal
Based on the author's long life of study, observation, and experimentation, this book clears the way for the exploration of many problems in an area of botanical research about which little substantial biochemical information is yet available. Mr. Dostál's investigations largely concern the interrelations among the different organs of plants and the ways in which the various components of the plant correlate to form an integrated whole.
Hardcover 1967
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
Stephen Jay Gould
"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Gould documents the history of the idea of recapitulation from its first appearance among the pre-Socratics to its fall in the early twentieth century.
Paperback 1985
The Orchids
Robert Dressler
This lively examination of the structure, classification, evolution, and ecology of the Orchidaceae will appeal to anyone with an eye for beauty or a bent for natural history. It will provide professional biologists and amateur orchidists alike with a deeper understanding--and a thoroughly new classification--of this, the largest flowering family in the plant kingdom.
Hardcover 1981 / Paperback 1990
Organization of Insect Societies
Edited by Jürgen Gadau
Edited by Jennifer Fewell
Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
In this volume, an international group of scientists has synthesized their collective expertise and insight into a newly unified vision of insect societies and what they can reveal about how sociality has arisen as an evolutionary strategy.
Hardcover 2009
The Other Insect Societies
With a Foreword by Bert Hölldobler and a Commentary by Edward O. Wilson
James T. Costa
Foreword by Bert Hölldobler
Commentaries by Edward O. Wilson
In his exploration of insect societies that don't fit the eusocial schema, James T. Costa gives these interesting phenomena their due. He synthesizes the scattered literature about social phenomena across the arthropod phylum: beetles and bugs, caterpillars and cockroaches, mantids and membracids, sawflies and spiders. This wide-ranging tour takes a rich narrative approach that interweaves theory and data analysis with the behavior and ecology of these remarkable groups. This book is likely to inspire a new generation of naturalists to take a closer look.
Hardcover 2006
Phylogeography
John C. Avise
Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene genealogies--phylogenetics--and geography. The word "phylogeography" was coined in 1987, and since then the scientific literature has reflected an exploding interest in the topic. Yet, to date, no book-length treatment of this emerging field has appeared. Phylogeography fills that gap. It captures the conceptual and empirical richness of the field, and also the sense of genuine innovation that phylogeographic perspectives have brought to evolutionary studies.
Hardcover 2000
The Platypus and the Mermaid
Harriet Ritvo
This thoroughly absorbing book on taxonomy captures the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing. As she depicts a complex of competing groups--naturalists and zoologists, farmers and showmen, butchers and artists--deploying rival schemes to impose order on nature, Harriet Ritvo offers a new perspective on the constantly shifting, ever suggestive interactions of scientific lore, cultural ideas, and popular imagination.
Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
Politics of Nature
Bruno Latour
Translated by Catherine Porter
This book establishes the conceptual context for political ecology--transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Latour proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society--and the constitution, in its place, of a community incorporating humans and nonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced.
Paperback 2004 / Hardcover 2004
Populations, Species, and Evolution
Ernst Mayr
In his extraordinary book, Animal Species and Evolution, Mr. Mayr fully explored, synthesized, and evaluated man's knowledge about the nature of animal species and the part they play in the process of evolution. Now, in this long-awaited abridged edition, Mr. Mayr's definitive work is made available to the interested nonspecialist, the college student, and the general reader.
Paperback 1970
Prairie Dogs
Constantine N. Slobodchikoff
Bianca Perla
Jennifer L. Verdolin
Slobodchikoff and colleagues synthesize the results of their long-running study of Gunnison’s prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni), one of the keystone species of the short-grass prairie ecosystem. By examining the complex factors behind prairie dog decline, we can begin to understand the problems inherent in our adversarial relationship with the natural world.
Hardcover 2009
Predator upon a Flower
Douglass H. Morse
In the crab spider, Misumena vatia, Morse and his colleagues found an ideal species on which to test basic questions of lifetime fitness. Ecologists had previously identified variables shaping populations, but lacked the experimental data needed to comprehensively test individuals making foraging decisions. Predator upon a Flower recounts Morse's influential experimental discoveries, moving from individuals to communities to ecosystems, and suggests directions for future research in spider biology.
Hardcover 2007
Primate Psychology
Dario Maestripieri, Editor
This book, one of the few comprehensive attempts at integrating behavioral research into human and nonhuman primates, does precisely that--and in doing so, offers a clear, in-depth look at the mutually enlightening work being done in psychology and primatology. The authors focus primarily on social processes in areas including aggression, conflict resolution, sexuality, attachment, parenting, social development and affiliation, cognitive development, social cognition, personality, emotions, vocal and nonvocal communication, cognitive neuroscience, and psychopathology.
Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
Primeval Kinship
Bernard Chapais
In this account of the dawn of human society, Chapais shows that our knowledge about kinship and society in nonhuman primates supports, and informs, ideas first put forward by the distinguished social anthropologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss. Chapais contends that only a few evolutionary steps were required to bridge the gap between the kinship structures of our closest relatives—chimpanzees and bonobos—and the human kinship configuration.
Hardcover 2008
Promiscuity
Tim Birkhead
Males are promiscuous and ferociously competitive. Females--both human and of other species--are naturally monogamous. That at least is what the study of sexual behavior after Darwin assumed, perhaps because it was written by men. Only in recent years has this version of events been challenged. Females, it has become clear, are remarkably promiscuous and have evolved an astonishing array of strategies, employed both before and after copulation, to determine exactly who will father their offspring. Tim Birkhead reveals a wonderful world in which males and females vie with each other as they strive to maximize their reproductive success.
Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
Punctuated Equilibrium
Stephen Jay Gould
In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the controversial idea that the majority of species originates in geological moments (punctuations) and persists in stasis. Now, thirty-five years later, Punctuated Equilibrium offers his only book-length testament on a theory he fiercely promoted, repeatedly refined, and tirelessly defended.
Paperback 2007
Qualitative Modeling of Complex Systems
Charles J. Puccia
Richard Levins
In this modern era of mathematical modeling, applications have become increasingly complicated. As the complexity grows, it becomes more and more difficult to draw meaningful conclusions about the behavior of theoretical models and their relations to reality. Qualitative Modeling of Complex Systems will be useful to a broad readership from the biological and social sciences as well as the physical sciences and technology.
Hardcover 1986
The Question of Animal Culture
Edited by Kevin N. Laland
Edited by Bennett G. Galef
The issue of animal culture is hotly debated. Laland and Galef have gathered key voices in the often rancorous debate to summarize the views along the continuum from “Culture? Of course!” to “Culture? Of course not!” The result is essential reading for anyone interested in the validity of animal culture, and what it might say about our own.
Hardcover 2009
Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings
William C. Wimsatt
Analytic philosophers once pantomimed physics, trying to understand the world by breaking it down. Thinkers from the Darwinian sciences now pose alternatives to this simplistic reductionism. In a tour of essays spanning thirty years, Wimsatt argues that scientists seek to atomize phenomena only when necessary to understand how entities, events, and processes articulate at different levels. This book offers a philosophy for error-prone humans trying to understand messy systems in the real world.
Hardcover 2007
The Relationship Code
David Reiss
Robert Plomin
Jenae M. Neiderhiser
E. Mavis Hetherington
The Relationship Code is the report of a longitudinal study, conducted over a ten-year period, of the influence of family relationships and genetic factors on competence and psychopathology in adolescent development. The sample for this landmark study included 720 pairs of same-sex adolescent siblings--including twins, half siblings, and genetically unrelated siblings--and their parents. Using a clear expressive style, David Reiss and his coinvestigators propose a striking hypothesis: family relationships are crucial to the expression of genetic influences and may constitute a code for translating genetic influences into the ontogeny of behaviors, a code every bit as important for behavior as DNA-RNA.
Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2003
A Reunion of Trees
Stephen Spongberg
Prologue by Sam Bass Warner
Stephen Spongberg's vividly written and lavishly illustrated "travel story" of trees and shrubs tells of intrepid explorers who journeyed to the far corners of the globe and brought back to Europe and North America a wealth of exotic plant species.
Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1998
Right Hand, Left Hand
Chris McManus
This book takes the reader on a trip through history, around the world, and into the cosmos, to explore the place of handedness in nature and culture. McManus considers evidence from anthropology, particle physics, the history of medicine, and the notebooks of Leonardo to answer questions like: Why are most people right-handed? Why does European writing go from left to right, while Arabic and Hebrew go from right to left? And how do we know that Jack the Ripper was left-handed?
Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
The Sand Wasps
Howard E. Evans
Kevin M. O'Neill
Foreword by Mary Alice Evans
Howard Evans was a brilliant ethologist and systematist, describing over 900 species in over a dozen entomology and natural history books. Upon his death in 2002, he left behind an unfinished manuscript, intended as an update of his classic 1966 work, The Comparative Ethology and Evolution of the Sand Wasps. O'Neill, Evans's former student and coauthor, has completed and enlarged this work into a tribe-by-tribe, species-by-species review of Bembicinae studies from the last four decades.
Hardcover 2007
Science as a Way of Knowing
John A. Moore
This book makes Moore's uncommon wisdom available to students in a lively and richly illustrated account of the history and workings of life. Employing a breadth of rhetoric strategies--including vividly written case histories, hypotheses and deductions, and chronological narrative--Science as a Way of Knowing provides not only a cultural history of biology but also a splendid introduction to the procedures and values of science.
Paperback 1999 / Hardcover / Hardcover
The Sea, Volume 12, Biological-Physical Interactions in the Sea
Edited by Allan R. Robinson
Edited by James J. McCarthy
Edited by Brian J. Rothschild
Hardcover
The Sea, Volume 13, The Global Coastal Ocean
Edited by Allan R. Robinson
Edited by Kenneth H. Brink
A continuing, comprehensive and timely survey of the state of knowledge of ocean science, this distinguished series provides an overview of research frontiers as ocean science progresses. Areas covered include physical, biological, and chemical oceanography, marine geology, and geophysics and the interactions of the oceans with the atmosphere, the solid earth, and ice.
Hardcover 2005
The Sea, Volume 14A, The Global Coastal Ocean
Edited by Allan R. Robinson
Edited by Kenneth H. Brink
A continuing, comprehensive and timely survey of the state of knowledge of ocean science, this distinguished series provides an overview of research frontiers as ocean science progresses. Areas covered include physical, biological, and chemical oceanography, marine geology, and geophysics and the interactions of the oceans with the atmosphere, the solid earth, and ice.
Hardcover 2006
The Sea, Volume 8, Deep-Sea Biology
Edited by Gilbert T. Rowe
Hardcover