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• Author(s): Ricard Sole | Brian Goodwin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologySigns of Life is an entirely new approach to the problems of understanding living systems. It applies the mathemati...

• Author(s): Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Developmental BiologyA renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo rese...

• Author(s): Jane Gregory | Steven Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsDoes the general public need to understand science? And if so, is it scientists' responsibility to communi...

• Author(s): David Darling • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionTo many people, the main question about extraterrestrial life is whether it exists. But to the scientific community, that quest...

• Author(s): Charles S. Cockell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionA groundbreaking argument for why alien life will evolve to be much like life here on Earth We are all familiar with the ...

• Author(s): Alan Jasanoff • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceA pioneering neuroscientist argues that we are more than our brains To many, the brain is the seat of personal identity and...

• Author(s): Alfonso Martinez Arias • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Developmental Biology"An ingenious argument" (Kirkus) for a "novel thesis" (Publishers Weekly) that cells, not DNA, hold the ke...

• Author(s): Edward J. Steele • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsThis controversial book challenges the accepted theories on the genetic mechanism of evolution. The story thes...

• Author(s): Christian de Duve • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Evolution"Is the emergence of life on Earth the result of a single chance event or combination of lucky accidents, or is it the outc...

• Author(s): Lynn Margulis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionAlthough Charles Darwin's theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most rem...

• Author(s): Albert-Laszlo Barabasi • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Chaotic Behavior in SystemsThe best-selling guide to network science, the revolutionary field that reveals the deep links between all forms of ...

• Author(s): Ernst Mayr • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyAt once a spirited defence of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general reader, What Evol...

• Author(s): David Linden • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyInspired by the abundance of unique personalities available on dating websites, a renowned neuroscientist examines the science of ...

• Author(s): Richard Morris • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionIn their laboratories, complexity scientists have been experimenting with complex chemicals that display some of the character...

• Author(s): Jay Ingram • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyWhy does the journey to a new location always take longer than the trip home? What is the science behind the theory of "six degrees ...