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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Blending together the most cutting-edge research and stories from habitats all over the world, a molecular biologist explores what nature has to teach us about aging, revealing life spans we cannot imagine and physiological gifts that feel closer to magic than reality.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human life. To be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo-such as birth, puberty, and death, but also laughter, sleeping, and healing-and those that only some of our bodies will: like getting a tattoo, experiencing psychosis,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 2017, scientists removed a tiny piece of flesh from Philip Ball's arm and turned it into a rudimentary "mini-brain." The skin cells, removed from his body, did not die but were instead transformed into nerve cells that independently arranged themselves into a dense network and communicated with each other, exchanging the raw signals of thought. This was life-but whose? That disconcerting question is the focus of Philip Ball's How...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"We all had three origins: the origin of our own individual life, the origin of life on Earth, and the origin of our planetary home from a universe that initially had neither stars nor planets. This book tells the stories of these three origins and the evolutionary processes connected with them. It tells the stories in an intertwined way; and it considers the likelihood that intelligent life-forms on other planets exist--indeed are numerous--and had...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species appeared a little more than 150 years ago. Although Darwin had already been developing his theory for more than twenty years and others before him had advocated evolutionary views, the book was transformative and marked the beginning of the development of evolutionary biology. The story of the development of evolutionary theory over the last century and a half is fascinating and conceptually rich; it has...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive -- but deceit and self-deception carry the costs of being alienated from reality and can lead to disaster. So why does deception play such a prominent role in our everyday lives? In short, why do we deceive?
In his bold new work, prominent biological theorist Robert Trivers...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 280
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"The development of a single cell, a fertilized egg, into a fly, an elephant, or a human baby is one of the most remarkable near-miracles achieved by nature. How does this astonishing feat happen? How does the egg 'know' what to become? These are the questions that the field of developmental biology seeks to answer. It is an area closely linked to genetics, evolution, and cell biology. This Very Short Introduction, written by the distinguished developmental...
18) Nursery earth: the wondrous lives of baby animals and the extraordinary ways they shape our world
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An astonishing safari of infant animals, from baby kangaroos to flamingos to squid, and the essential role they play in Earth's ecosystems"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After tracking the lives of thousands of people from birth to midlife, four of the world's preeminent psychologists reveal what they have learned about how humans develop. Does temperament in childhood predict adult personality? What role do parents playin shaping how a child matures? Is day care bad-or good-for children? Does adolescent delinquency forecast a life of crime? Do genes influence success in life? Is health in adulthood shaped by childhood...
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