Principles of Development (Häftad)
avLewis Wolpert, Cheryll Tickle
ISBN: 9780199549078 - UTGIVEN: 201101The process of biological development is an amazing feat of tightly regulated cellular behaviours - differentiation, movement, and growth - powerful enough to result in the emergence of a highly complex living organism from a single cell, the fertilized egg. Principles of Development clearly illus[...]
Developmental Biology (Häftad)
avLewis Wolpert
ISBN: 9780199601196 - UTGIVEN: 201108From a single cell - a fertilized egg - comes an elephant, a fly, or a human. How does this astonishing feat happen? How does the egg 'know' what to become? How does it divide into the different cells, the separate tissues, the brain, the fingernail - every tiniest detail of the growing foetus? Thes[...]
Principles of Development (Häftad)
avLewis Wolpert
ISBN: 9780199678143 - UTGIVEN: 2015-04Principles of Development opens up the fascinating field of developmental biology to those studying this complex but fundamental area of science. Key concepts are explained clearly and succinctly and are richly illustrated with a variety of custom drawn figures, animations, and links to online movie[...]
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (Pocket)
avLewis Wolpert
ISBN: 9780393332032 - UTGIVEN: 200807Why do 70 percent of Americans believe in angels, while others are convinced that they were abducted by aliens? What makes people believe in improbable things when all the evidence points to the contrary? And don't almost all of us, at some time or another, engage in magical thinking? In Six Impossi[...]
Malignant Sadness (Häftad)
avLewis Wolpert
ISBN: 9780571230785 - UTGIVEN: 200604Lewis Wolpert had a severe depressive episode, and despite a happy marriage and successful scientific career, he could think only of suicide. When he recovered, he wrote this book, an investigation into the causes and treatments of this disease. This edition features an introduction, in which Lewis [...]
Why Can't a Man Be More Like a Woman?: The Evolution of Sex and Gender (Inbunden)
avLewis Wolpert
ISBN: 9781626361263 - UTGIVEN: 2014-11How different are men and women, really? Controversy surrounds the question and makes uncovering the answers--based in evolution, genetics, and biology--increasingly difficult. Still, significant differences between the sexes are apparent everyday to both men and women. Whether it's a boyfriend's in[...]
