Biology for Non-Scientists

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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...
Endless forms most beautiful the new science of evo devo and the making of the animal kingdom
Carroll, Sean B.
Paper Book
Evo Devo is evolutionary developmental biology, the third revolution in evolutionary biology. The first was marked by the publication of The Origin of Species. The second occurred in the early twentieth century, when Darwin's theories were merged with the study of genetics. Now the insights of Evo...
The gene an intimate history
Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Ebook
I contain multitudes the microbes within us and a grander view of life
Yong, Ed author.
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller New York Times Notable Book of 2016 * NPR Great Read of 2016 * Named a Best Book of 2016 by The Economist, Smithsonian, NPR's Science Friday, MPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Times (London) From Pulitzer Prize...
Parasite rex : inside the bizarre world of nature's most dangerous creatures
Zimmer, Carl
Paper Book
Combining the literary sensibility of David Quammen with the scientific rigor of Stephen Jay Gould, Carl Zimmer reveals the power, danger, and beauty of the surprising creatures who dominate the earth: parasites. For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories,...
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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