The God Molecule
Transfer RNA (tRNA) is a molecular fossil that tells the story of the evolution of the genetic code and the origin of life. Analysis of its pre-life sequences provides clear insights into how life began and shows why tRNA is required to generate life on Earth or another planet.
This book is a comprehensive guide to colloidal and supramolecular drug delivery systems, designed to conquer pharmacokinetic impediments. It covers their classification, preparation, characterization, and the regulatory strategies required to launch them in the market.
How Life Emerges from Inanimate Matter
This book describes how life emerges from inanimate matter. It analyzes this transition as it occurs in space, from simple particles to individuals; in time, through biological evolution; and in embryonic development, offering a unique, multi-disciplinary analysis of all three.
Evolution and I discusses and sheds light on human knowledge and evolution from a range of perspectives including morals and ethics, sex and gender, religion, artificial intelligence, and microorganisms, with often surprising conclusions illuminating who we are as humans.
Evolution is the mesh that connects every biological phenomenon. This book highlights how evolutionary science provides practical applications and tools to deal with current problems concerning humanity, such as disease, food production, and environmental destruction.
Measuring the Evolution Controversy
Why do so many people reject evolution? The authors postulate the “incompatibility hypothesis”: a fundamental conflict between scientific rationalism and supernatural belief. They test this by examining how education and religiosity impact evolution’s acceptance.
Protecting biodiversity requires safeguarding unique animal breeds. This book details the cryopreservation of avian stem cells and sperm, exploring methods and their applications in medicine, biotechnology, and conservation to secure genetic diversity for future generations.
Ageing is not a disease. In an era of unfulfilled social care, this book presents an anthropological view that focuses on three essential conditions of human life that become vulnerable with advancing age: relating to others, being in the world, and leaving a legacy.
This is the first modern, extensive study of Late Cretaceous planktic foraminifera, a group of paramount importance for specialists in the oil industry and academia. This volume is dedicated to globotruncanids, describing 61 species with high-quality, spectacular photographs.
Biologists in the Age of Totalitarianism
These gripping biographies reveal the hidden lives of biologists in the Third Reich. Dr. Nowak, who knew many personally, uses newly opened archives to tell the stories of victims and perpetrators caught in the ideological nets of Nazism, Stalinism, and Maoism.
Belonging to Earth
Global health threats reveal the deep interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health. This book’s fictional, evidence-based stories, rooted in true events, provide invaluable insights that will change the way we understand our place in the global ecosystem.
What Is Life and What Is Consciousness
What is life? What is consciousness? This book tackles these age-old questions with a new concept: matter-related information. It demonstrates that information is an indispensable contributor to the organization and functionality of all living systems.
Basic Biology for Born Engineers
While the laws of physics rely on calculus, this approach fails for biology. Living things are not continuous; they are discrete and amazingly exact. This book presents a novel view of biology as the science of ‘living mosaics’, made of discrete, yet interacting, ‘tiles’.
Jawless Fishes of the World
The first book to focus exclusively on various aspects of jawless fish species throughout the world, this volume provides an overview of a variety of related topics, including their taxonomy, zoogeography, phylogeny, molecular biology, evolution, and role in the ecosystem.
Healing and Saving Technology
Physician, priest, and philosopher Rev Joseph Tham explores the ethical frontiers of medicine, technology, and faith. This anthology presents a rich tapestry of insights, bridging traditional Catholic teachings with contemporary debates on suffering, dignity, and human identity.
This book explains the fundamental processes of evolutionary genetics, such as mutation, natural selection, and speciation. It provides an up-to-date overview of the field, discussing the theories of Darwin and Mendel, adaptation, and the origin of new genes.
The Genome of an Organism
This book explains the fundamental processes of evolutionary genetics, such as mutation, natural selection, and speciation. It provides an up-to-date overview of the field, discussing the theories of Darwin and Mendel, adaptation, and the origin of new genes.