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  • Where Did We Come From?

    The Origin and Evolution of Life

    Where Did We Come From? The Origin and Evolution of Life is a welcoming introduction to the understanding of the origin and evolution of life. The authors capture the attention of all readers, be they well versed in theories of the origin of life and the Theory of Evolution or those that possess little knowledge of these interesting subjects. The authors discuss the origin of life from religious ... Read more

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  • It's in Your DNA

    From Discovery to Structure, Function and Role in Evolution, Cancer and Aging

    It's in Your DNA: From Discovery to Structure, Function and Role in Evolution, Cancer and Aging describes, in a clear, approachable manner, the progression of the experiments that eventually led to our current understanding of DNA. This fascinating work tells the whole story from the discovery of DNA and its structure, how it replicates, codes for proteins, and our current ability to analyze and ... Read more

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  • The Hologenome Concept: Human, Animal and Plant Microbiota

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Groundbreaking research over the last 10 years has given rise to the hologenome concept of evolution. This concept posits that the holobiont (host plus all of its associated microorganisms) and its hologenome (sum of the genetic information of the host and its symbiotic microorganisms), acting in concert, function as a unique biological entity and therefore as a level of selection in evolution.All ... Read more

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  • Beneficial Microorganisms in Multicellular Life Forms

    Edited by Uri Gophna, Eugene Rosenberg ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    All animals and plants form associations with hundreds or thousands of different beneficial microorganisms. These symbiotic microbes play an important role in the development, adaptation, health and evolution of their hosts. This book brings together a group of diverse biologists to discuss microbial interactions with multicellular life forms including insects, corals, plants, and mammals, ... Read more

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  • Microbiomes

    Current Knowledge and Unanswered Questions

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book examines an important paradigm shift in biology: Plants and animals, traditionally viewed as individuals, are now considered to be complex systems and host to a plethora of microorganisms. After first presenting historical aspects of microbiota research, bacterial compositions of individual microbiomes and the critical analysis of current methods, the book discusses how microbial ... Read more

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    How Microbes Shape Animal Biology

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  • Life's Edge

    The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

    by Carl Zimmer ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD***A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021***A SCIENCE NEWS FAVORITE BOOK OF 2021***A SMITHSONIAN TOP TEN SCIENCE BOOK OF 2021“Stories that both dazzle and edify… This book is not just about life, but about discovery itself.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times Book Review**We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists ... Read more

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  • Environmental Contaminants in Biota

    Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, Second Edition

    Discussing the interpretation of tissue concentrations of contaminants in wildlife, this updated edition of a bestseller draws on current scientific research and includes new chapters and greater emphasis on aquatic organisms. Each chapter provides a summary and review of a specific chemical along with direction on research methods and the interpretation of conflicting or insufficient data. ... Read more

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  • The Tangled Tree

    A Radical New History of Life

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  • Human Toxicology of Chemical Mixtures

    In this important reference work, Zeliger catalogs the known effects of chemical mixtures on the human body and also proposes a framework for understanding and predicting their actions in terms of lipophile (fat soluble) / hydrophile (water soluble) interactions. The author's focus is on illnesses that ensue following exposures to mixtures of chemicals that cannot be attributed to any one ... Read more

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  • Darwin's Doubt

    The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design

    When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian explosion,” many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of ... Read more

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  • Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

    The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

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