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Deep Metazoan Phylogeny: The Backbone of the Tree of Life
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 182.00The growing success of molecular methods has challenged traditional views of animal evolution and a large number of alternative hypotheses are hotly debated today. For the deep metazoan phylogeny project, data sets of hitherto unmatched quality and quantity were compiled and analysed with innovative bioinformatics tools. The book begins at the base... more...
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 26.95In its 4.5 billion?year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? As a species, Homo sapiens... more...
Evolution (International Student Edition)
W. W. Norton & Company 2011; US$ 35.99Written by active researchers to present a contemporary view of the field. Evolution makes the big themes in evolutionary biology accessible by introducing them early and integrating them thoroughly. Extensive, in-depth, current research examples, an emphasis on problem solving, and a stunning art program engage students, helping them to understand... more...
Creation
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableCreation by Adam Rutherford uses the very latest science to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive account yet of the story of life -- where it came from and where it is going. 'A superbly written explanation of how the origin of life on Earth became a question for science, and what the answer might be' Brian Cox 'One of the most... more...
THE TOGAVIRUSES:BIO,STRUC,REPLICATION
Elsevier Science 1980; US$ 119.00THE TOGAVIRUSES:BIO,STRUC,REPLICATION more...
The Life of David Lack
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 58.99Most people who have taken a biology course in the past 50 years are familiar with the work of David Lack, but few remember his name. Almost all general biology texts produced during that period have a figure showing the beak size differences among the finches of the Galapagos Islands from Lack's 1947 classic, Darwin's Finches. Lack's pioneering... more...
Extinction
HarperCollins UK 2002; US$ 19.95Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs were destroyed in a mass extinction event that could not have been predicted. Out of the devastation, new life developed and the world regained its natural equilibrium. Until now. Scientists, employing radically new perspectives on the science of life, are beginning to uncover signs of similar event on the... more...
Faint Echoes, Distant Stars
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Our neighboring planets may have the answer to this question. Scientists have already identified ice caps on Mars and what appear to be enormous oceans underneath the ice of Jupiter's moons. The atmosphere on Venus appeared harsh and insupportable of life, composed of a toxic atmosphere and oceans of acid -- until scientists concluded that Earth's... more...
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt
Random House Publishing Group 2002; US$ 13.95The date is January 11, 1911 . A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, hopes to find fossil evidence... more...
The Development of Animal Form
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 61.00The Development of Animal Form integrates traditional morphology and contemporary molecular genetics while incorporating research on postembryonic development. The result is unconventional views of basic animal organization. The book will interest graduate students and researchers of evolutionary and developmental biology, and scholars in cell biology,... more...









