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the secret lives of cells
How do we move, think and remember? Why do we get ill, age and die? Distinguished biologist Lewis Wolpert explains how cells provide the answers to th...
This book shows that many of our understandings about scientific thought can be corrected once we realise just how "unnatural" science actually is. Qu...
Principles of Development reveals the universal principles that govern the process of development, illustrating how a highly-complex living organism f...
From a single cell - a fertilized egg - comes an elephant, a fly, or a human. How does this astonishing feat happen? How does the egg 'know' what to b...
Developmental biology is at the core of all biology. This text emphasizes the principles and key developments in order to provide an approach and styl...
Developmental biology is at the core of all biology. This text emphasises the principles and key developments in order to provide an approach and styl...
Fourteen scientists tell how they became interested in their field, decribe the principles of research, and explain why science is so rewarding...
The Evolution of Sex and Gender
Why are there two sexes? How different are they and why? Why can't a woman be more like a man? Or should the question be: why can't a man be more like...
"This is a clear and engagingly written book," declared Nature, "recommended certainly to nonspecialists, but also to developmental biologists." Its e...
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The Inner World of Scientists
The popular stereotype of the scientist as mad boffin or weedy nerd has been peddled widely in film and fiction, with the implication that the world o...
How different are men and women, really? Controversy surrounds the question and makes uncovering the answers—based in evolution, genetics, and biolo...
With contributions from a number of respected scholars, these papers locate science within ancient Greek society and culture. The writers investigate ...
The Surprising Nature of Getting Old
We now live longer today than at any time in history. In the UK, more people are aged over sixty-five than under sixteen and by 2050, over a third of ...
The Revival of the Voluntary Principle
(Ernst Mayr Lecture on 6th November 2001)