Life Cycles (eBook)

Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist

John Tyler Bonner (Autor)

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2015 | 1. Auflage
222 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7277-0 (ISBN)

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Within a single captivating narrative, John Bonner combines an intensely personal memoir of scientific progress and an overview of what we now know about living things. Bonner, a major participant in the development of biology as an experimental science, draws on his life-long study of slime molds for an understanding of the life cycle-the foundation of all biology. In an age of increasing specialization and fragmentation among subfields of biology, this is a unique work of reflection and integration.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Zusatzinfo: 24 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Schlagworte: Aldous Huxley • Amoeba • animal culture • Ant • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek • aphid • Army ant • asexual reproduction • August Weismann • Bacteria • Baldwin effect • Barbara McClintock • Beatrix Potter • biologist • Biology • Caenorhabditis • Charles Darwin • Chimpanzee • Chloroplast • C. H. Waddington • Ciliate • Competition • Coprinus • Darwinism • Dictyostelium • Disenchantment • Drosophila • dwarfism • Embryo • Embryology • E. O. Wilson • Ernst Haeckel • Ethology • Eugenics • Eusociality • Evolution • female • flatworm • Francis Crick • fungus • Gene • Genus • G. P. Wells • grandparent • Hans Driesch • Hans Spemann • heredity • Heterocyst • Hybrid (biology) • Hymenoptera • insect • Jane Goodall • J. B. S. Haldane • Jonathan Weiner • Karl von Frisch • kingbird • kin selection • Laboratory rat • lamarckism • Machiavellian intelligence • Mammal • mating • Meiosis • Mold • Multicellular organism • Mutation • Natural selection • Nematode • Nuptial flight • Oomycete • organism • Pair bond • paramecium • Parthenogenesis • Peter Medawar • petri dish • Pheromone • Plant • Plasmodium • Population • Protein • Protozoa • Reproductive success • Sexual Dimorphism • sexual reproduction • Sexual Selection • slime mold • small RNA • Sociocultural evolution • Sperm • Systema Naturae • Termite • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex • the selfish gene • Thomas Henry Huxley • Thomas Hunt Morgan • waggle dance • W. D. Hamilton • William Keeton • worker bee
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7277-4 / 1400872774
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7277-0 / 9781400872770