The Principles of Biology (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Hamaker, John Irvin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440081700 ISBN 13 : 9781440081705

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the living world through clear, foundational biology that links plants, animals, and microbes.

This introduction presents core ideas about life, from how organisms adapt to environments to how they reproduce, grow, and interact with one another. It highlights key processes such as instinct and intelligence, memory and learning, and the ways brains and sense organs shape behavior. The text also surveys major groups of life, from simple sponges to complex vertebrates, and explains how scientists classify and study living things. Expect straightforward explanations of anatomy, development, and the wide variety of life cycles found in nature.

- Learn how instinct, learning, and adaptation work across different animals.
- See how organisms are organized into major groups and how classification works.
- Discover basics of body structure, growth, and developmental stages in diverse organisms.
- Get a foundation for how genetics, reproduction, and evolution shape life.

Ideal for readers new to biology, students looking for a clear overview, and anyone curious about how living things fit together in the natural world.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Principles of Biology

In an introductory course in biology a text-book is helpful because the notes taken by lower class students are usually unsatisfactory, if not useless and require much time. This volume contains an outline of a course given by the author for more than ten years. It is designed to supplement the practical work in the laboratory and field, and to relieve the student of the greater part of the burden of taking lecture notes. Purely discriptive matter is reduced to a minimum and examples are largely omitted because the teacher is supposed to have sufficient command of the subject to supply these, and local and familiar examples are always better for illustration than those less well known. The figures in the book are regarded as an important part in the presentation of the subject and should be carefully studied. Many points omitted or only briefly alluded to in the text are explained by them.

Part I is designed to acquaint the student with the fundamentals of plant organization and life processes. Part II does the same for animals but in a different and more thorough method. Part III discusses the most important general biological phenomena. The difference in treatment of plants and animals rests on well-known pedagogical principles which need not be discussed here. There is little in the book for which originality can be claimed, but justification for publishing rests on the fact that there is at present no text which even approximately covers the field in subject-matter and method of treatment.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440081700
• ISBN 13: 9781440081705
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 476
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