Biology for Non-Scientists

Updated September 17, 2024
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What a fish knows the inner lives of our underwater cousins
Balcombe, Jonathan, 1959- author.
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses...
Domesticated evolution in a man-made world
Francis, Richard C., 1953-
Paper Book
We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of civilization--the Middle East--is where sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, and cats commenced their fatefully intimate association with humans. Before the agricultural...
A planet of viruses
Zimmer, Carl
Paper Book
For years, scientists have been warning us that a pandemic was all but inevitable. Now it's here, and the rest of us have a lot to learn.  Fortunately, science writer Carl Zimmer is here to guide us. In this compact volume, he tells the story of how ...
She has her mother's laugh the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity
Zimmer, Carl, 1966- author.
Paper Book
2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist "Science book of the year"--The Guardian One of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2018 One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2018 One of Kirkus's Best Books...

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