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• Author(s): Robert Rosen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiophysicsFrom the Back CoverCompiling twenty articles on the nature of life and on the objective of the natu...

• Author(s): Robert Rosen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyA collection of twenty articles on the nature of life and on the objective of the natural sciences. It...

• Author(s): Michael Mckinney • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyFrom the Back CoverHow will patterns of human interaction with the earth's ecosystem impact biodiv...

• Author(s): Quentin Wheeler • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionFrom the Back CoverNo question in theoretical biology has been more controversial or perplexing t...

• Author(s): Niles Eldredge • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionAll organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution ...

• Author(s): Evelyn Fox Keller • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyFrom the Back CoverRefiguring Life begins with the history of genetics and embryology, showing ho...

• Author(s): Erwin Fleissner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Molecular BiologyThe year 2003 marked the fiftieth anniversary of James Watson's and Francis Crick's disco...

• Author(s): Marie Di Berardino • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyThis book is a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge about the influence of genetic or ge...

• Author(s): Peter Stevens • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyA reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-...

• Author(s): Michael Novacek • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionComprising research papers in evolutionary and systematic biology, this text encompasses chapters...

• Author(s): Quentin Wheeler • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionPresents a debate among systematic biology theorists to consider the strengths and weaknesses of ...

• Author(s): Gregg Hartvigsen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyDrawing on Gregg Hartvigsen's extensive experience teaching biostatistics and modeling biological ...

• Author(s): Erwin Fleissner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Molecular BiologyWritten by a cancer researcher and teacher, this book offers a personal and professional ...

• Author(s): Betsey Dexter Dyer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Cell BiologyDrawing evidence from molecular biology and the fossil record, this study discusses the evo...

• Author(s): Joe Cherry • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Botany

• Author(s): Scott Gilbert • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Developmental BiologyHow does one make decisions today about in vitro fertilization, abortion, egg freezing,...

• Author(s): George Ronald Williams • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThe Gaia hypothesis, set forth by British scientist James Lovelock, has widely influenced en...

• Author(s): David Schwartzman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Inside FlapThe idea that living things and the atmosphere, oceans, and soils comprise an...

• Author(s): John Avise • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyWhile it is true that members of most sexually reproducing species can be defined as either male or fema...

• Author(s): Jay Schulkin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceThe neuroscientist Jay Schulkin argues that biology and culture do more than coexist when we play...

• Author(s): John Rappole • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThe purpose of migration, regardless of the distance involved, is to exploit two or more environments ...

• Author(s): J. David. Archibald • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyLeading paleontologist J. David Archibald explores the rich history of visual metaphors for bio...

• Author(s): Donald R. Prothero • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PaleontologyOne of the leading textbooks in its field, Bringing Fossils to Life applies paleobiological principles to t...

• Author(s): René Dubos • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyThe author evaluates the consequences of the application of scientific knowledge to all aspects of human...

• Author(s): Sheldon Krimsky • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsDo advances in genomic biology create a scientific rationale for long-discredited r...

• Author(s): Richard Bird • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsWhy, in a scientific age, do people routinely turn to astrologers, mediums, cultists, and ever...

• Author(s): Gregory Edgecombe • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionWhat light do fossils shed on the deep history of life's most diverse phylum, the Arthropoda? A...

• Author(s): John Wiens • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyWhat forces influence a person's decision to pursue a career in science? And what factors determine whic...

• Author(s): Spencer G Lucas • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press

• Author(s): Tod F. Stuessy • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BotanyDesigned to help students make better taxonomic judgments, this case book contains exercises and case...

• Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyHonorable Mention, 2024 Richard Frisbie Award for Adult Nonfiction, Society of Midland Authors A new science is reengineering t...

• Author(s): Michael Patrick Ghiglieri • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - Primatology

• Author(s): Mark A. S. McMenamin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionDuring an expedition in Sonora, Mexico, paleontologist Mark A. S. McMenamin unearthed fossil...

• Author(s): Charles Maurer | Daphne Maurer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceTo socialize, your brain needs to see and hear other people, yet your brain is ...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Zubay • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - MicrobiologyThis new work offers a clear and thorough account of the threats posed by bioterrorism from the...

• Author(s): George Mcghee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionPicture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with t...