Evolution of Culture in Animals, The (Pocket)
avJohn Tyler Bonner
ISBN: 9780691023731 - UTGIVEN: 1983-05-01
First Signals: The Evolution of Multicellular Development (Övrig)
avJohn Tyler Bonner
ISBN: 9780691070384 - UTGIVEN: 2001-01-03The enormous recent success of molecular developmental biology has yielded a vast amount of new information on the details of development. So much so that we risk losing sight of the underlying principles that apply to all development. To cut through this thicket, John Tyler Bonner ponders a moment [...]
The Social Amoebae (Inbunden)
avJohn Tyler Bonner
ISBN: 9780691139395 - UTGIVEN: 200812Noted biologist and author John Tyler Bonner has experimented with cellular slime molds for more than sixty years, and he has done more than anyone else to raise these peculiar collections of amoebae from a minor biological curiosity to a major model organism - one that is widely studied for clues t[...]
Why Size Matters (Häftad)
avJohn Tyler Bonner
ISBN: 9780691152332 - UTGIVEN: 201112John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the universal impact of being the right size. By examining stories ranging from "Alice in Wonderland" to "Gul[...]
Randomness in Evolution (Inbunden)
avJohn Tyler Bonner
ISBN: 9780691157016 - UTGIVEN: 201304John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology. In this concise, elegantly written book, he makes the bold and provocative claim that some biological diversity may be explained by something other than natural select[...]
On Growth and Form (Pocket)
avD'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, John Tyler (EDT) Bonner, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
ISBN: 9781107672567 - UTGIVEN: 2014-07Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also beco[...]
