| Description |
526 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 514-522) and index. |
| Contents |
Origin of life -- Last universal common ancestor -- Prokaryotes -- Algae -- Eukaryotes -- Fungi -- Arthropods -- Medulla : the vital brain -- Fish -- Land plants -- Devonian Period -- Insects -- Plant defenses against herbivores -- Amphibians -- Seeds of success -- Reptiles -- Gymnosperms -- Dinosaurs -- Mammals -- Birds -- Angiosperms -- Primates -- Amazon rainforest -- Neanderthals -- Anatomically modern humans -- Plant-dervied medicines -- Wheat : the staff of life -- Agriculture -- Domestication of animals -- Coral reefs -- Rice cultivation -- Mummification -- Animal navigation -- Four humors -- Aristotle's The history of animals -- Animal migration -- Botany -- Pliny's Natural history -- Skeletal system -- Pulmonary circulation -- Leonardo's human anatomy -- Sense of hearing -- Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica -- Tobacco -- Metabolism -- Scientific method -- Harvey's De motu cordis -- Mechanical philosophy of Descartes -- Placenta -- Lymphatic system -- Blood cells -- Refuting spontaneous generation -- Phosphorus cycle -- Egotism and witchcraft -- Leeuwenhoek's microscopic -- Spermatozoa -- Miasma theory -- Circadian rhythms -- Blood pressure -- Linnean classification of species -- Cerebrospinal fluid -- Regeneration -- Theories of germination -- Artificial selection (selective breeding) -- Animal electricity -- Gas exchange -- Nervous system communication -- Paleontlogy -- Population growth and food supply -- Lamarckian inheritance -- Germ-layer theory of development -- Cell nucleus -- Darwin and the voyages of the Beagle -- Anatomy Act of 1832 -- Human digestion -- Fossil record and evolution -- Nitrogen cycle and plant chemistry -- Cell theory -- Plant nutrition -- Urine formation -- Apoptosis (programmed cell death) -- Venoms -- Homology versus analogy -- Photosynthesis -- Optical isomers -- Testosterone -- Trichromatic color vision -- Homeostatis -- The liver and glucose metabolism -- Microbial fermentation -- Darwin's theory of natural selection -- Ecological interactions -- Invasive species -- Localization of cerebral function -- Biological mimicry -- Mendelian inheritance -- Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny -- Hemoglobin and hemocyanin -- Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) -- Sexual selection -- Coevolution -- Nature versus nurture -- Biosphere -- Meiosis -- Biogeography -- Marine biology -- Enzymes -- Phototropism -- Mitosis -- Thermoreception -- Innate immunity -- Germ plasm theory of heredity -- Eugenics -- Gram stain -- Negative feedback -- Germ theory of disease -- Animal coloration -- Neuron doctrine -- Endotoxins -- Global warming -- Adaptive immunity -- Associative learning -- Ehrlich's side-chain theory -- Malaria-causing protozoan parasite -- Virsuses -- Ecological succession -- Animal locomotion -- Genetics rediscovered -- Ovaries and female reproduction -- Blood types -- Tissue culture -- Secretin : the first hormone -- Dendrochronology -- Blood clotting -- Radiometric dating -- Probiotics -- Why does the heart beat? -- Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium -- Genes on chromosomes -- Cancer-causing virsuses -- Continental drift -- Vitamins and bereberi -- Thyroid gland and metamorphosis -- X-ray crystallography -- Bacteriophages -- Biotechnology -- Neurotransmitters -- Insulin -- Inborn errors of metabolism -- Embryonic induction -- Timing fertility -- Mitochondria and cellular respiration -- "The monkey trial" -- Population ecology -- Food webs -- Insect dance language -- Antibiotics -- Progesterone -- Osmoregulation in freshwater and marine fish -- Electron microscope -- Imprinting -- Factors affecting population growth -- Stress -- Allometry -- Evolutionary genetics -- Coelacanth : "the living fossil" -- Action potential -- One gene-one enzyme hypothesis -- Biological species concept and reproductive isolation -- Arabidopsis : a model plant -- DNA as carrier of genetic information -- Green revolution -- Bacterial genetics -- Reticular activating system -- Phylogenetic systematics -- The immortal HeLa cells -- Cloning (nuclear transfer) -- Amino acid sequence of insulin -- Pattern formations in nature -- Plasmids -- Nerve growth factor -- Miller-Urey experiment -- The double helix -- REM sleep -- Acquired immunological tolerance and organ transplantation -- Sliding filament theory of muscle contraction -- Ribosomes -- Lysosomes -- Prenatal genetic testing -- DNA polymerase -- Second messengers -- Protein structures and folding -- Bioenergetics -- Central dogma of molecular biology -- Bionics and cyborgs -- Pheromones -- Energy balance -- Chimpanzee use of tools -- Cellular senescence -- Cracking the genetic code for protein biosynthesis -- Operon model of gene regulation -- Thrifty gene hypothesis -- Silent spring -- Hybrids and hybrid zones -- Brain lateralization -- Animal altruism -- Optimal foraging theory -- Bacterial resistance to antibiotics -- Endosymbiont theory -- Multi-store model of memory -- Hypothalamic-pituitary axis -- Systems biology -- Cellular determination -- Cell cycle checkpoints -- Punctuated equilibrium -- Sustainable development -- Parental investment and sexual selection -- Lucy -- Cholesterol metabolism -- Sense of taste -- Monoclonal antibodies -- Sociobiology -- Cancer-causing genes -- Bioinformatics -- In Vitro fertilization (IVF) -- Biological magnification -- Can living organisms be patented? -- Genetically modified crops -- HIV and AIDS -- Polymerase chain reaction -- DNA fingerprinting -- Genomics -- Mitochondrial Eve -- Depletion of the ozone layer -- Domains of life -- Sense of smell -- Leptin : the thinness hormone -- Skin color -- Human Genome Project -- Protist taxonomy -- Induced pluripotent stem cells -- Vital mutations and pandemics -- Deepwater Horizon (BP) oil spill -- Translational biomedical rsearch -- Albumin from rice -- Human Microbiome Project - Epigenetics -- American chestnut tree blight -- De-extinction -- Oldest DNA and human evolution. |
| Subject |
Biology -- History.
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| Added Author |
Gerald, Gloria.
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| ISBN |
9781454910688 (hardcover) $29.95 |
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1454910682 (hardcover) |
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