Biology, life sciences

This four-volume collection brings together primary sources on British food during the long nineteenth century.

Bacterial Blight of Rice offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the most destructive diseases threatening global rice production.

With increased pressure on our food systems and a growing demand for healthful options, producers seek alternative food sources to improve nutrition and mitigate food insecurity across the globe.

In our modern world, it is easy to overlook the natural world all around us.

In a world where threats of cataclysmic extinction loom and sustainable harvest approaches are essential, applied population ecology has never been more crucial.

In our modern world, it is easy to overlook the natural world all around us.

Fundamentals of Developmental Psychobiology: A Brief Account of an Interdisciplinary Science demonstrates how the science of Developmental Psychobiology (DBP) improves our understanding of non-human and human behavioral and psychological development, with consequences for better health care, animal husbandry, ecological conservation, and education.

The world’s coastlines are currently experiencing unprecedented pressures arising from both natural processes and anthropogenic activities.

Charles Darwin presented the first scientific explanation of design through evolution by natural selection, where the environment furnishes individual organisms with adaptations that help them to survive and reproduce.

For many animals, behavioural adjustments represent the first response to human-modified conditions.

Dementia diagnosis is evolving rapidly, yet one critical dimension remains overlooked: the powerful ways that sex/gender, mental health, and psychosocial context shape cognitive performance—and therefore, diagnostic accuracy.

Adaptationist Evo-Devo is a practical and inviting guide to one of biology's most vital ongoing conversations: how to explain the diversity of life by connecting natural selection to the developmental processes that make evolution possible.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolving field of exosome-based therapies for chronic diseases.

The world’s coastlines are currently experiencing unprecedented pressures arising from both natural processes and anthropogenic activities.

Ecologists and evolutionary biologists, especially those with theoretical and mathematical leanings, have tended to dismiss historical approaches as descriptive, smacking of particularities, allowing few generalizations (or even being untestable), and even antithetical to scientific explanation.

How the World Flows acts like a microscope that pulls the reader into the barely noticeable, Lilliputian world of fluids at small scales--the microfluidic world-and answers the question "e;What is microfluidics?

This book enables readers to dissect ongoing and future controversies in science-informed policy, providing a comprehensive understanding of how consensus is built—or thwarted.

Societies around the world are becoming increasingly multicultural, while the range of new or controversial medical procedures that are available to patients also grows.

How the World Flows acts like a microscope that pulls the reader into the barely noticeable, Lilliputian world of fluids at small scales--the microfluidic world-and answers the question "e;What is microfluidics?

With increased pressure on our food systems and a growing demand for healthful options, producers seek alternative food sources to improve nutrition and mitigate food insecurity across the globe.

This title is an exploration of the enzyme carbonic anhydrase (CA) and its inhibitors (CAIs), focusing on its biochemical properties, mechanisms, and wide-ranging applications.

For billions of years, microbes have produced and consumed greenhouse gases that regulate global temperature and in turn other aspects of our climate.

Adaptationist Evo-Devo is a practical and inviting guide to one of biology's most vital ongoing conversations: how to explain the diversity of life by connecting natural selection to the developmental processes that make evolution possible.

For billions of years, microbes have produced and consumed greenhouse gases that regulate global temperature and in turn other aspects of our climate.

Serving as both an accessible textbook and an original synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship, Emerging Infections traces the social and environmental determinants of human infectious diseases from the Paleolithic to the present day.

Did you know that one-third of every meal you eat exists because of bees?

Why do we love music?

Why do we love music?

Over the past few decades, the life sciences have experienced an analytical revolution.

This thought-provoking book introduces a way to study ecosystems that is resonant with current thinking in the fields of earth system science, geobiology, and planetology.

How do plants make a living?

Engineered nanomaterials have become relevant in large-scale industrial applications and are used in many common devices and products.

Uncovering the principles governing the origin and fate of biodiversity is the central goal of modern biology.

The same DNA technology that allows the analysis of a hair or tiny blood spot at a crime scene also enables sequencing the DNA of a bone fragment from a Neanderthal skeleton.

Neither cellular/molecular nor ecosystem processes can be fully understood without a detailed understanding of the biology of the whole organism.

Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, resource depletion, new emerging diseases: scientists have raised awareness on the ecological and societal consequences of the unbridled development of human activities for a long time.

Darwin's The Origin of Species is one of the most influential books ever written.

Darwin's The Origin of Species is one of the most influential books ever written.

Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, resource depletion, new emerging diseases: scientists have raised awareness on the ecological and societal consequences of the unbridled development of human activities for a long time.

Evolutionary quantitative genetics (EQG) provides a formal theoretical foundation for quantitatively linking natural selection and genetic variation to the rate and expanse of adaptive evolution.

Societies around the world are becoming increasingly multicultural, while the range of new or controversial medical procedures that are available to patients also grows.

Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essentialism among some groups, or the idea that our biology ties us to particular ethnic identities.

Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essentialism among some groups, or the idea that our biology ties us to particular ethnic identities.

This volume explores the fascinating world of plant-based bioactive compounds that have influenced healthcare systems across centuries.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

Where justice, with its emphasis on individual claim-rights, falls short of justifying our ethical responsibility to care for those suffering from illnesses that do not neatly qualify as unjust, love (agape) provides the missing moral foundation.

Recovering the forgotten discipline of Natural Philosophy for the modern worldThis book argues for the retrieval of 'natural philosophy', a concept that faded into comparative obscurity as individual scientific disciplines became established and institutionalized.

Writing scientific publications is a fundamental step in the research process.

Comprising well over half of all known animal species, insects are the most successful organisms on the planet.

These charismatic mammals, which include dogs, cats, hyenas, weasels, mongooses, seals, sea lions and bears, have always held special importance to humans throughout history and continue to do so today.