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“jan sapp”

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  • The New Foundations of Evolution

    On the Tree of Life

    by Jan Sapp ...
    This is the story of a profound revolution in the way biologists explore life's history, understand its evolutionary processes, and reveal its diversity. It is about life's smallest entities, deepest diversity, and greatest cellular biomass: the microbiosphere. Jan Sapp introduces us to a new field of evolutionary biology and a new brand of molecular evolutionists who descend to the foundations of ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Microbial Phylogeny and Evolution

    Concepts and Controversies

    Edited by Jan Sapp ...
    The birth of bacterial genomics since the mid-1990s brought withit several conceptual modifications and wholly new controversies. Working beyond the scope of the neo-Darwinian evolutionary synthesis, a group of leading microbial evolutionists addresses the following and related issues, often with markedly varied viewpoints: · Did the eukaryotic nucleus, cytoskeleton and cilia also orginate from ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • What Is Natural?

    Coral Reef Crisis

    by Jan Sapp ...
    During the late 1960s and 1970s, massive herds of poisonous crown-of-thorns starfish suddenly began to infest coral reef communities around the world, leaving in their wake devastation comparable to a burnt-out rainforest. In What is Natural?, Jan Sapp both examines this ecological catastrophe and captures the intense debate among scientists about what caused the crisis, and how it should be ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Genes, Germs And Medicine: The Life Of Joshua Lederberg

    by Jan Sapp ...
    Genes, Germs and Medicine explores the development of modern biomedical science in the United States through the life of one of the Twentieth Century's most influential scientists.Joshua Lederberg was a scientific renaissance man. He and his collaborators founded the field of bacterial genetics, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize at the age of 33 (the second youngest in history). He helped to lay ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Coexistence

    The Ecology and Evolution of Tropical Biodiversity

    by Jan Sapp ...
    This book is about tropical biology in action- how biologists grapple with the ecology and evolution of the great species diversity in tropical rainforests and coral reefs. Tropical rainforests are home to 50% of all the plant and animal species on earth, though they cover only about 2% of the planet. Coral reefs hold 25% of the world's marine diversity, though they represent only 0.1 % of the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The New Foundations of Evolution : On the Tree of Life

    On the Tree of Life

    by Jan Sapp ...
    This is the story of a profound revolution in the way biologists explore life's history understand its evolutionary processes and reveal its diversity. It is about life's smallest entities deepest diversity and greatest cellular biomass: the microbiosphere. Jan Sapp introduces us to a new field of evolutionary biology and a new brand of molecular evolutionists who descend to the foundations of ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

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  • She Has Her Mother's Laugh

    The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

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  • Flesh Made New: The Unnatural History and Broken Promise of Stem Cells

    by John Rasko, Carl Power ...
    The dazzling promise of stem cell medicine: does it work and will it save us? Two experts look at the hypeFor decades, we've been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we've been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow, then the next day, or the day after that, and so on. We're still waiting.This book is an antidote to ... Read more

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  • The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth

    The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere

    by Eric Smith, Harold J. Morowitz ...
    Uniting the conceptual foundations of the physical sciences and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary book explores the origin of life as a planetary process. Combining geology, geochemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, evolution and statistical physics to create an inclusive picture of the living state, the authors develop the argument that the emergence of life was a necessary cascade ... Read more

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  • The Tangled Tree

    A Radical New History of Life

    by David Quammen ...
    In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology, evolutionary biology, and genetics and genomics affect our understanding of evolution and life’s history.In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequencing to ... Read more

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  • Host Manipulation by Parasites

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    Parasites that manipulate the behaviour of their hosts represent striking examples of adaptation by natural selection. This field of study is now moving beyond its descriptive phase and into more exciting areas where the processes and patterns of such dramatic adaptations can be better understood. This innovative text provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and challenging review of host ... Read more

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