About Life: Concepts in Modern Biology - Couverture souple

Agutter, Paul S. S.; Wheatley, Denys N.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9048173639 ISBN 13 : 9789048173631

Editeur : Springer, 2010

Synopsis

This book uses modern biological knowledge to tackle the question of what distinguishes living organisms from the non-living world. The authors first draw on recent advances in cell and molecular biology to develop an account of the living state that applies to all organisms (and only to organisms). This account is then used to explore questions about evolution, the origin of life, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The authors also consider human evolution, intelligence, and the extent to which our species can be regarded as biologically unique. About Life makes modern cell biology comprehensible to the non-specialist. Non-technical language is used throughout and all scientific terms are clearly explained when they are introduced. The novel approach taken by this book to issues in biology will interest both the general reader as well as students and specialists in the field.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"This delightfully written book addresses major questions and some of the biggest ideas in biology today. ... The book is moderately well-illustrated with photomicrographs and line drawings ... . The book includes numerous insightful analogies and covers somewhat offbeat topics that an instructor could easily adapt to enliven classroom presentations. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above." --P. E. Hertz, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (2), 2007

It is well written, scholarly and deals with the subject in "4-D" i.e. not as we know it now but as knowledge developed in time. For me, who has lived through the development of the subject since the late 1960s and reviewed the literature as far back as Hippocrates, it was like reading a novel that I could not put down. --Prof. A Nicolaides MS FRCS

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book uses modern biological knowledge to tackle the question of what distinguishes living organisms from the non-living world. Non-technical language is used throughout and all scientific terms are clearly explained when they are introduced.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9048173639
• ISBN 13: 9789048173631
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 252
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