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Endless forms most beautiful : the new science of Evo Devo and the making of the animal kingdom
Carroll, Sean B.
Paper Book
"A beautiful and very important book."--Lewis Wolpert, American Scientist For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo--Evolutionary Developmental Biology--is the new science that has finally cracked open the...
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Why evolution is true
Coyne, Jerry A., 1949-
Paper Book
Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design," there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the evidence, the empirical truth of...
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March of the microbes sighting the unseen
Ingraham, John L.
Paper Book
This title shows us how to examine, study, and appreciate microbes in the manner of a birdwatcher, by making sightings of microbial activities and thereby identifying particular microbes as well as understanding what they do and how they do it.
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The rise of yeast how the sugar fungus shaped civilization
Money, Nicholas P. author.
Paper Book
The great Victorian biologist Thomas Huxley once wrote, "I know of no familiar substance forming part of our every-day knowledge and experience, the examination of which, with a little care, tends to open up such very considerable issues as does yeast." Huxley was right. Beneath the very foundations...
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The gene : an intimate history
Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Paper Book
** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ** The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. The story begins in an...
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I contain multitudes : the microbes within us and a grander view of life
Yong, Ed
Paper Book
'Super-interesting ... He just keeps imparting one surprising, fascinating insight after the next. I Contain Multitudes is science journalism at its best' BILL GATES SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
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A planet of viruses
Zimmer, Carl
Ebook
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 ...
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