- The Acoustic Sense of Animals
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Anatomy of the Guinea Pig
- Hardcover 1975
- Animal Body Fluids and Their Regulation
- 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 Social Complexity
- 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
- 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
- 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 Ants
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 paintings, it is one of the most visually rich and all-encompassing views 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
- Aristotle to Zoos
- 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
- Beautiful Minds
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Biogeography and Adaptation
- Hardcover 1978 / Paperback
- The Biological Century
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback 1986
- Bumblebee Economics
- with a new preface
- 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
- Cell Fusion
- Hardcover 1970
- Cerebral Dominance
- 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
- 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
- The Code of Codes
- 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
- Comparative Physiology of Vertebrate Respiration
- 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
- Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos
- "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
- 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
- Deadly Cultures
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Paperback / Hardcover
- The Diversity of Life
- 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
- 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
- Ecology and Evolution of Communities
- 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
- Evolution and the Diversity of Life
- 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
- Hardcover 1979
- Evolutionary Dynamics
- 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
- Explorations in Developmental Biology
- Hardcover 1976
- Explorations in the Life of Fishes
- 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
- 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
- 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
- A Fly for the Prosecution
- 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 the Love of Enzymes
- 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
- 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
- Gene Sharing and Evolution
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Growth of Biological Thought
- 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
- Hierarchy in the Forest
- 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
- Historical Biogeography
- 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
- 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
- The Hot-Blooded Insects
- Hardcover
- Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World
- 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
- In Pursuit of the Gene
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Paperback
- Interfaces in Microbial Ecology
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Hardcover 1978 / Paperback
- The Life of Yeasts, 2nd rev. and enlarged ed
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Mermaid’s Tale
- 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
- 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
- Molecular Specialization and Symmetry in Membrane Function
- 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
- More than Kin and Less than Kind
- 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
- New England Life in the 18th Century
- 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
- The North American Grasshoppers, Volume 1, Acrididae
- Hardcover 1981
- On Development
- Hardcover / Paperback
- On Fertile Ground
- 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
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
- Ontogeny and Phylogeny
- "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
- Phylogeography
- 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
- Populations, Species, and Evolution
- 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
- Primate Psychology
- 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
- Qualitative Modeling of Complex Systems
- 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
- Right Hand, Left Hand
- 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
- Science as a Way of Knowing
- 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 13, The Global Coastal Ocean
- 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
- 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
- Hardcover
- Sex and Friendship in Baboons
- When it first appeared in the mid-1980s, this book transcended the traditional ethological focus on sexual interactions by analyzing male-female relationships outside the context of mating in a troop of wild baboons. Barbara Smuts used long-term friendships between males and females, documented over a two-year period, to show how social interactions between members of friendly pairs differed from those of other troop mates. Her findings, now enhanced with data from another fifteen years of field studies, suggest that the evolution of male reproductive strategies in baboons can only be understood by considering the relationship between sex and friendship: female baboons prefer to mate with males who have previously engaged in friendly interaction with them and their offspring. Smuts suggests that female choice may promote male investment in other species, and she explores the relevance of her findings for the evolution of male-female relationships in humans.
- Paperback 1999
- Sociobiology
- View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"
- Hardcover / Paperback
- Sociobiology
- View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"
When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. The controversy surrounding the book's publication--and surrounding its central claim that human social behavior has a biological foundation--reverberates to this day. In the introduction to this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Edward O. Wilson shows how research in human genetics and neuroscience over the past quarter of a century has strengthened the case for a biological understanding of human nature.
- Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000
- A Source Book in Animal Biology
- The two main aims of this book are to increase the general availability of classical contributions to animal biology and to present the development of thought in this field in the words of those who produced it.
- Hardcover 1951
- Survival Strategies
- Only in recent years have biologists and ethologists begun to apply careful evolutionary thinking to the study of animal societies--and with spectacular results. This book presents the choicest of these findings, illustrated with both photographs and explanatory diagrams.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2001
- Symmorphosis
- Are animals designed economically? The theory of symmorphosis predicts that the size of the parts in a system must be matched to the overall functional demand. In Symmorphosis, Ewald Weibel show how animals as different as shrews, pronghorns, dogs, goats--even humans--all develop from essentially the same blueprint by variation of design. This is a hidden beauty of the animal kingdom, which can be uncovered by a rigorous investigation of the quantitative relations of form and function.
- Hardcover 2000
- Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist
- Ernst Mayr is perhaps the most distinguished biologist of the twentieth century, and Systematics and the Origin of Species may be one of his greatest and most influential books. This classic study, first published in 1942, helped to revolutionize evolutionary biology by offering a new approach to taxonomic principles and correlating the ideas and findings of modern systematics with those of other life science disciplines. This book is one of the foundational documents of the "Evolutionary Synthesis." It is the book in which Mayr pioneered his new concept of species based chiefly on such biological factors as interbreeding and reproductive isolation, taking into account ecology, geography, and life history. In his new introduction for this edition, Mayr reflects on the place of this enduring work in the subsequent history of his field.
- Paperback 1999
- The Tangled Field
- Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), a geneticist who integrated classical genetics with microscopic observations of the behavior of chromosomes, was regarded as a genius and as an unorthodox, nearly incomprehensible thinker. Using McClintock's research notes, newly available correspondence, and dozens of interviews with McClintock and others, Comfort replaces the "McClintock myth" with a new story, rich with implications for our understanding of women in science and scientific creativity.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003
- This Is Biology
- An eyewitness to this century's relentless biological advance and the originator of some of its most important concepts, Ernst Mayr is uniquely qualified to offer a vision of science that places biology firmly at the center, and a vision of biology that restores the primacy of holistic, evolutionary thinking. Both as an overview of the life sciences and as the culmination of a remarkable life in science, This Is Biology will richly reward professionals and general readers alike.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- The Tinkerer's Accomplice
- Physiologist Scott Turner argues eloquently that the apparent design we see in the living world only makes sense when we add to Darwin's towering achievement the dimension that much modern molecular biology has left on the gene-splicing floor: the dynamic interaction between living organisms and their environment. Only when we add environmental physiology to natural selection can we begin to understand the beautiful fit between the form life takes and the way life works.
- Hardcover 2007
- Toward a New Philosophy of Biology
- Paperback 1989
- The Tree of Life
- Did you know that you are more closely related to a mushroom than to a daisy? That dinosaurs are still among us? That the terms "fish" and "invertebrates" do not indicate scientific groupings? All this is the result of major changes in classification, whose methods have been totally revisited over the last thirty years. This book diagrams the tree of life according to the most recent methods of classification.
- Hardcover 2007
- The Triple Helix
- One of our most brilliant evolutionary biologists, Richard Lewontin here provides a concise, accessible account of what his work has taught him about biology and about its relevance to human affairs. In the process, he exposes some of the common and troubling misconceptions that misdirect and stall our understanding of biology and evolution. Rejecting the notion that genes determine the organism, which then adapts to the environment, he explains that organisms, influenced in their development by their circumstances, in turn create, modify, and choose the environment in which they live.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- The Variation and Adaptive Expression of Antibodies
- George P. Smith presents a critical study of these theories in this detailed treatment of immunological problems from the point of view of molecular genetics. This is a timely book offering a succinct and coherent summary of the various lines of evidence in a confused and controversial field.
- Hardcover 1973
- The Whale Problem
- Whales--are they destined for immediate extinction or will a workable method of controlling their harvest soon appear? The topics discussed include cetacean biology and natural history; methods of estimating the numbers of whales; population counts before, during, and after intensive whaling; recovery rates as whaling diminishes or stops; improved ways of managing whales as a resource; and suggestions for further research.
- Hardcover 1974
- Whose View of Life?
- Saving lives versus taking lives: These are the stark terms in which the public regards human embryo research--a battleground of extremes, a war between science and ethics. Such a simplistic dichotomy, encouraged by vociferous opponents of abortion and proponents of medical research, is precisely what Maienschein seeks to counter with this book. This book brings the current debates into sharper focus by examining developments in stem cell research, cloning, and embryology in historical and philosophical context and by exploring legal, social, and ethical issues at the heart of what has become a political controversy.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- The Wisdom of the Hive
- This book describes and illustrates the results of more than fifteen years of elegant experimental studies conducted by the author to investigate how a colony of bees is organized to gather its resources. The results of his research--including studies of the shaking signal, tremble dance, and waggle dance--offer the clearest, most detailed picture available of how a highly integrated animal society works.
- Hardcover 1996
- The X in Sex
- An enlightening and entertaining tour of the cultural and natural history of this intriguing member of the genome, The X in Sex traces the journey toward our current understanding of the nature of X. From its chance discovery in the nineteenth century to the promise and implications of ongoing research, David Bainbridge shows how the X evolved and where it and its counterpart Y are going.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004