Operators and Promoters: The Story of Molecular Biology and Its Creators
by Harrison Echols
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The structure of DNA was discovered in 1953. This book continues from there, presenting the molecular revolution that took place between1955-90: how major players from genetics, biochemistry, and cell biology discovered how genes work and how they can be...
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The Top 10 Myths about Evolution
by Cameron Smith and Charles Sullivan
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In this concise, accessible, "myth-busters handbook," two renowned educators clearly dispel the ten most common myths about evolution. Using a refreshing, jargon-free style, they set the record straight that evolution is "just a theory." Illustrations....
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I Have Landed Splashes & Reflections In
by Stephen Jay Gould
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This collection of essays from "Natural History" magazine illuminate and elucidate key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the discovery of the new scourge of syphilis by Fracastoro in the 16th century to Freud's weird speculations about...
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An Enthusiasm for Orchids: Sex and Deception in Plant Evolution
by John Alcock
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The male thynnine wasp's extreme sexual enthusiasm is crucial to reproduction of hammer orchids in the wild. Hammer orchids have co-evolved to produce odors identical to those manufactured by female thynnine wasps. The male wasp's superb sensitivity to...
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Looks: Why They Matter More Than You Ever Imagined
by Gordon L Patzer
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Very few of us realize just how much looks affect every aspect of our lives. People blessed with good looks earn more than their average-looking colleagues and are more likely to get hired and promoted at work. They also tend to be luckier in love, more...
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The Implicit Genome
by Lynn Caporale
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For over half a century, we have been in the thrall of the double-helicaln structure of DNA, which, in an instant, revealed that information can be transferred between generations by a simple rule, A pairs with T, G pairs with C. In its beautiful...
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Our Fragile Coastal Fisheries
by Don Phillips
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Author Don Phillips takes the reader on a broad tour of the issues that are threatening the survival of our coastal fisheries. Don's three years of research for this book have included dozens of interviews with fishery managers and biologists around the...
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The Second Tree: An Investigation Into Stem Cells, Cloning, and the Quests for Immortality
by Elaine Dewar
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An award-winning journalist seriously reexamines humanity's identity, rights, and responsibilities in a world where scientists can invent new creatures at their whim....
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An Obsession With Butterflies
by Sharman Apt Russell
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Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with...
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Illegal Beings: Human Clones and the Law
by Kerry Lyn Macintosh
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Discusses the pros and cons of laws against human reproductive cloning....
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Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution
by David Rains Wallace
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A general interest exploration of mammal evolution and the scientific history of major fossil discoveries, their discoverers, and changing ideas about these extinct "beasts."It's both a grand mystery and a Cinderella story: mammal origins were one of...
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The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey
by Chris Beard
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A leading primate paleontologist describes how his provocative fossil discoveries from China, the United States, and elsewhere are toppling old hypotheses about when and where the ancestors of monkeys, apes, and humans evolved....
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I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
by Stephen Jay Gould
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As always in his popular writing, Gould conveys the ideas that science professionals exchange among themselves, minus only the technical jargon. In the title essay, he details his grandfather's journey from Hungary to America, and in a moving epilogue...
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Mcgraw Hill Dictionary of Bioscience 2ND Edition
by Mcgraw Hill
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THE LANGUAGE OF BIOSCIENCE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Derived from the world-renowned McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Sixth Edition, this vital reference offers a wealth of essential information in a portable, convenient, quick-find...
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A Natural History of Families
by Scott Forbes
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"This book is excellent. Having started reading it, I could not put it down but read it all at one go in a day. Extremely readable, it deals elegantly and succinctly with some of the more complex issues and topics in behavioral ecology of parental...
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In My Family Tree: A Life with Chimpanzees
by Sheila Siddle
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Sheila Siddle's life was changed forever one fateful day in 1983 when a local game ranger brought a battered, malnourished chimpanzee to the door of her cattle ranch in central Zambia and asked her to do whatever she could to save it. As Sheila and her...
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Advances in Molecular and Cellular Microbiology #9: Salmonella Infections: Clinical, Immunological and Molecular Aspects
by Pietro Mastroeni
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Integrated view of clinical, molecular and immunological aspects of the biology of Salmonella enterica infections....
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Beauty & the Beasts: Woman, Ape, and Evolution
by Carole Jahme
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What is it with female primatologists and their chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas? The sheer number of women in this field is startling, as are the dangers they risk pursuing their beloved subjects. Fiercely dedicated and devoted, they go to...
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Discoveries: Darwin and the Science of Evolution (Discoveries)
by Patrick Tort
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Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D Watson
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The personal account of one of the great scientific discoveries of the century. By identifying the structure of DNA, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won a Nobel Prize. His honest account of their sprint against other world...
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