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Why read Bergson now? And why as a philosopher of biology in particular? On the one hand, we are in the midst of a return to Bergson, a revival of interest in his work, and even a full-blown Bergson renaissance. Tano S. Posteraro contributes to this increasingly serious study of Bergson's philosophy with a tight focus on Bergson's theory of evolution. Moreover, he presents an alternative Bergson, not as a phenomenologist whose central datum is the conscious experience of lived time or the lived body in time, but rather as a systematic philosopher of biology with a robust, prescient and largely workable evolutionary programme. The result is a Bergson for the biology of today.
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• Publishers Note
• Introduction
• Profiles: Agricultural Engineer
• Agricultural/Food Science Technician
• Agricultural/Food Scientist
• Anthropologist/Archeologist
• Biochemist/Biophysicist
• Bioengineer/Biomedical Engineer
• Biological Technician
• Chemical Engineer
• Chemist/Materials Scientist
• Clinical Laboratory Technologist/Technician
• Conservation Scientist/Forester
• Dietitian/Nutritionist
• Environmental Engineer
• Environmental Engineering Technologist/Technician
• Environmental Science/Protection Technician
• Environmental Scientist/Specialist
• Epidemiologist
• Exercise Physiologist
• Forensic Science Technician
• Forest/Conservation Worker
• Genetic Counselor
• Mathematician/Statistician
• Medical Scientist
• Microbiologist
• Natural Sciences Manager
• Physician/Surgeon
• Postsecondary Teacher
• Radiologic/MRI Technologist
• Registered Nurse
• Veterinarian
• Zoologist/Wildlife Biologist
• Appendix A: Holland Code
• Appendix B: General Bibliography
• Appendix C: List of Organizations and Resources
• Index

Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms. A career in biology can mean the study of evolution, the study of health and disease, the study of the preservation of the natural environment, the study of pollen, or the study of animal behavior, to name a few. Biologists can work in a classroom, in a laboratory, on a farm, or under the ocean, so someone who is interested in a career in this field has many options to choose from.
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• Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Note on Quotations and Translations Introduction 1 Portraits of Coenraad Jacob Temminck 2 On Dutch Natural History 3 Summary of the Chapters 4 A Word of Caution: On Definitions
• part 1: Birds, Cabinets, and Museums 1 From Catalogs to Monographs 1 Exotic Birds on Cupboards and Plates 2 Francois Levaillant and Bernhard Meyer 3 From Listing to Classifying 4 Temminck's Earliest Monographs
• 2 From Collector to Director 1 Appointments and Politics 2 The Direction of 's Lands Kabinet 3 Collections for the Universities 4 Building Up a Network 5 The Concept of a National Museum
• 3 National Museum, National Expeditions 1 The Birth of 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie 2 Temminck's Directorate 3 Colonial Nature 4 A Worldwide Web of Collectors
• 4 A Place for Systematics 1 The Museum's Scientific Output 2 Temminck's Podium 3 The Geography of Systematics
• Part 2: Zoological Classification: 1800-1850 5 Patterns, Laws, and Types 1 Geographical Patterns and the "Type" Concept 2 Temminck's Law versus Buffon's Law 3 On the Origin and Immutability of Species 4 After Temminck's Law
• 6 Systematics Wars 1 Temminck's Debates 2 Nomenclatural Chaos 3 Establishing Genera 4 The Search for a Natural Classification System 5 The 'Parliamentary Practice'
• 7 Systematics and Natural History: 1800-1850 1 Defining 'Natural History' 2 The Issue of Philosophical Arguments 3 The Status of Anatomy and Physiology 4 Systematics within Natural History
• Conclusion: The Emergence of Systematics Appendix Bibliography Index.
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Coenraad Jacob Temminck and the Emergence of Systematics (1800-1850) is the first study to examine in detail the life and work of Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858), the Dutch naturalist who was the first director of 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie (National Museum of Natural History) in Leiden, The Netherlands. This study situates Temminck's activities in the context of European natural history during the early to the mid-nineteenth century. Three issues which defined the era are discussed in more detail: the growing European colonial territories, the rise of scientific meritocracy, and the emergence of systematics as a discipline. Temminck's biography elucidates how and why systematics developed, and why its status within the natural sciences has been a matter of discussion for more than a century.
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• Introduction.-
• Chapter 1: Michel Serres's Biosemiotic Thought: Writing the "Immense Rhapsody" or "Great Story" of Life.-
• Chapter 2: Edgar Morin's Complex, "Ecologized" Thought: The Ubiquity of "Informational Capital" on the Battlefield of Life in the COVID-19 Era.-
• Chapter 3: The Biosemiosic Gaze of the "Wholly Other" and the Philosophical Exercise of "Limitrophy" in Jacques Derrida's Posthumous Philosophy.-
• Chapter 4: Michel Onfray's Biosemiotic, Materialistic, and Post-Monotheistic Reworking of Human and Other-Than-Human Semiosis.-
• Chapter 5: Dominique Lestel's Pioneering Biosemiotic Vision of "The Enchanted Space of Trans-Specific Communication" Within Hybrid Societies.
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Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era is focused on the fields of biosemiotics, linguistics, ecocriticism, and environmental ethics. Closely aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 13.1, Keith Moser's study aims to strengthen resilience to climate-related hazards by drawing on ecological theories developed by French philosophers in conversation with biosemiotic principles. Not only does the novel theoretical framework offered by biosemiotic interpretations of the universe and our place in it represent an indispensable conceptual tool for understanding the unprecedented medical challenges at the dawn of a new millennium, but it also beckons us to think harder about the environmental crisis that threatens the continued existence of all sentient beings who call the biosphere home. This book also highlights the richness, diversity, and utility of the ecological theories developed by the French philosophers Michel Serres, Edgar Morin, Jacques Derrida, Dominique Lestel, and Michel Onfray in addition to how they engage with biosemiotic principles. Taken together, the book probes the scientific, linguistic, philosophical, and ethical implications of biosemiotic theories in a post-pandemic world from an environmental and medical perspective.
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• Part I. Perspectives on Critical Thinking
• 1. Educating critical citizens to face post-truth: the time is now
• 2. Critical thinking in the flesh: movement and metaphors in a world in flux
• 3. Emotional sense-making and critical thinking in the era of post-truth: The case of climate change
• 4. Culturally relevant science education and critical thinking in Indigenous groups: bridging the gap between community and school science
• Part II. Research about Critical Thinking in Biology and Health Education
• 5. The role of evidence evaluation in critical thinking
• 6. Supporting critical thinking through engagement in dialogic argumentation: The case of discussing genetically modified food
• 7. Critical thinking to decide what to believe and what to do regarding vaccination in schools. A case study with primary pre-service teachers
• 8. Students' thinking strategies and the role of arguments as a shared thinking tool
• 9. Fostering critical thinking about health issues. Facts of success and failure in the case of homeopathy
• Part III. Research about Critical Thinking in Environmental and Sustainability Education
• 10. Teaching science in environmentally degraded areas: An analysis from critical and ecofeminist perspective
• 11. Spatial and temporal dynamics in climate change education discourse: An ecolinguistic perspective
• 12. Social responsibility and critical disposition for considering and acting upon conflicting evidence in argumentation about sustainable diets
• 13. Epistemic beliefs as a means of understanding critical thinking in a socioscientific environmental debate
• 14. Primary school teachers understanding of critical thinking in the context of education for sustainable development
• Part IV. Concluding Remarks
• 15. The integration of critical thinking in biology and environmental education. Contributions and further directions

This volume seeks to broaden current ideas about the role of critical thinking (CT) in biology and environmental education considering educational challenges in the post-truth era. The chapters are distributed into three sections, perspectives of a theoretical character (part I), empirical research about CT in the context of biology and health education (part II), and empirical research on CT in the context of environmental and sustainability education (part III). The volume includes studies reporting students' engagement in the practice of critical thinking, and displays how CT can be integrated in biology and environmental education and why biology and environmental issues are privileged contexts for the development of CT. The chapters examine a range of dimensions of CT, such as skills, dispositions, emotions, agency, open-mindedness, or personal epistemologies. In addition, they explore topics such as climate change, sustainable diets, genetically modified food, vaccination, acceptance of evolution, homeopathy, and gene cloning. Concluding remarks regarding the connections between the chapters and future directions for the integration of critical thinking in biology and environmental education are presented in a final chapter.
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• List of Contributors
• 1. Introduction Alexandre K. Monro
• 2. Cryptic species: A product of the paradigm difference between taxonomic and evolutionary species Simon J. Mayo
• 3. Species circumscription in cryptic clades: A Nihilist's view Richard M. Bateman
• 4. Multilevel organismal diversity in an ontogenetic framework as a solution for the species concept Alexander Martynov and Tatiana Korshunova
• 5. Diagnosability and cryptic nodes in Angiosperms: A case study from Ipomoea Pablo Munoz-Rodriguez, John. R. I. Wood and Robert W. Scotland
• 6. Connecting micro- and macro-evolutionary research - extant cryptic species as systems to understand macro-evolutionary stasis Torsten H. Struck and Jose Cerca
• 7. Coexisting cryptic species as a model system in integrative taxonomy Cene Fiser and Klemen Koselj
• 8. Non-monophyletic species are common in plants: An ecological evolutionary perspective Matt Lavin and R. Toby Pennington
• 9. Guerrilla taxonomy and discriminating cryptic species - is quick also dirty? Paul H. Williams
• 10. Cryptic lineages among Seychelles herpetofauna Jim Labisko, Simon T. Maddock, Sara Rocha, David J. Gower
• 11. Cryptic diversity in European terrestrial flatworms of the genus Microplana (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) Marta Alvarez-Presas, Eduardo Mateos, Ronald Sluys and Marta Riutort.
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Cryptic species are organisms which look identical, but which represent distinct evolutionary lineages. They are an emerging trend in organismal biology across all groups, from flatworms, insects, amphibians, primates, to vascular plants. This book critically evaluates the phenomenon of cryptic species and demonstrates how they can play a valuable role in improving our understanding of evolution, in particular of morphological stasis. It also explores how the recognition of cryptic species is intrinsically linked to the so-called 'species problem', the lack of a unifying species concept in biology, and suggests alternative approaches. Bringing together a range of perspectives from practicing taxonomists, the book presents case studies of cryptic species across a range of animal and plant groups. It will be an invaluable text for all biologists interested in species and their delimitation, definition, and purpose, including undergraduate and graduate students and researchers.
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• Preface
• 1. A Study in Biophilia
• 2. It's Dogged as Does It
• 3. The Glories and Limits of Facts
• 4. The Dance of Plants, the Roots of Mind
• 5. The Varieties of Passionate Experience
• 6. Beauty Is Life, Life Beauty
• 7. The One Great Love of Two True Minds Selected Bibliography Index.
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Biophilia-the love of life-encompasses the drive to survive, a sense of kinship with all life-forms, and an instinct for beauty. In this unconventional book, Kay Harel uses biophilia as a lens to explore Charles Darwin's life and thought in deeply original ways. In a set of interrelated essays, she considers how the love of life enabled him to see otherwise unseen evolutionary truths. Harel traces the influence of biophilia on Darwin's views of dogs, facts, thought, emotion, and beauty, informed by little-known material from his private notebooks. She argues that much of what Darwin described, envisioned, and felt was biophilia in action. Closing the book is a profile of Darwin's marriage to Emma Wedgwood, his first cousin, a woman gifted in music and medicine who shared her husband's love of life. Harel's meditative, playful, and lyrical musings draw on the tools of varied disciplines-aesthetics, astronomy, biology, evolutionary theory, history of science, philosophy, psychiatry, and more-while remaining unbounded by any particular one. Taking unexpected paths to recast a figure we thought we knew, this book offers readers a different Darwin: a man full of love, joy, awe, humility, curiosity, and a zest for living.
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• Dedication Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Water
• Chapter 2: Trees
• Chapter 3: Truths
• Chapter 4: Intersections I
• Chapter 5: Intersections II
• Chapter 6: Sciences
• Chapter 7: Molecules
• Chapter 8: Identities
• Chapter 9: Bodhi
• Chapter 10: Intimacy Glossary Notes Index.
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There are more connections between spirituality and science than you might think... In 2004, biologist Dee Denver heard the Dalai Lama speak in Bloomington, Indiana. The famous Tibetan monk's speech that day exposed him to the centrality of impermanence in Buddhist thinking, a topic that directly connected to his mutation research in evolutionary biology. He left the event shocked and startled by the unexpected parallels between Buddhism and biology. This experience is not wholly unique to Denver. Spirituality and science are two inherently humane ways to approach our world. Why shouldn't more people look at them in tandem? In this book, Denver shares Buddhist ideas and the tradition's colonial and more recent interactions with biology. He then applies the scientific method to Buddhist principles and draws connections between Buddhist ideas and current research in biology. In doing this, he proposes a new approach to science, Bodhi science, that integrates Buddhist teachings and ethical frameworks. Denver's research supports a connected synergy between biological and Buddhist thinking. This scientific approach to Buddhism offers strong evidence supporting the validity of fundamentally Buddhist principles and logic. The book builds on historical evidence from Sri Lanka, Japan, and Tibetan Buddhism to illustrate these connections.
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• 1. An End to Ends?
• 2. What Makes Life Life-Like? The Dynamic Continuity of Living Things
• 3. Vegetable Souls in the Middle Ages
• 4. Mechanical Organisms in the Enlightenment
• 5. Who "Acts" in Biology? Biological Agents from Souls to Genes
• 6. Genes: The New Biological Agent
• 7. Can Teleology Be Saved? Three Constraints on Bioteleology
• 8. Genes and Natural Selection Finalize Nature

This book provides a straightforward introduction to teleology in biology, the work it did and the work it can do. Informed by history and philosophy, it focuses on scientific concerns. Seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century biologists proposed a menagerie of biological "actors" to explain power without appealing to Aristotelian vegetable souls and final causes. Three constraints on teleology narrowed the field, selecting among the various actors as they mutated and recombined. Methodological naturalism, local adaptation, and blind chance each represent a significant philosophical advance in biology. Kant, Darwin, and the Modern Synthesis provided a new teleology, grounded in natural selection, an etiological recursion of form and function, and the details of carbon chemistry on Earth. They naturalized teleology, but they also finalized nature, shifting conceptions about the world and science. Understanding these links historical, philosophical, and theoretical sets the stage for new work moving forward. Dr. Lucas John Mix is the Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology and an associate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. He studies life concepts at the intersection of science, philosophy and theology and has worked with NASA Astrobiology programs for the last 25 years on understanding the meaning and extent of life. His previous books include Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone (2009) and Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin: On Vegetable Souls (2018)

• The cell
• Reproduction
• Embryogenesis and development
• The nervous system
• The endocrine system
• The respiratory system
• The cardiovascular system
• The immune system
• The digestive system
• Homeostasis
• The musculoskeletal system
• Genetics and evolution.

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• Introduction: Life itself
• 1. Discovering the nanocosm
• 2. The path of carbon
• 3. From gases to life
• 4. Revolutions
• 5. To the dark side
• 6. The flux capacitor
• Epilogue: Self
• Envoi: 'Like Most Revelations'
• The forward Krebs cycle
• The reverse Krebs cycle
• Appendix 1: red protein mechanics
• Appendix 2: the Krebs line

What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. Our inheritance also includes our living metabolic network, a flame passed from generation to generation, right back to the origin of life. In Transformer, biochemist Nick Lane reveals a scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight -how the same simple chemistry gives rise to life and causes our demise. Lane is among the vanguard of researchers asking why the Krebs cycle, the "perfect circle" at the heart of metabolism, remains so elusive more than eighty years after its discovery. Transformer is Lane's voyage, as a biochemist, to find the inner meaning of the Krebs cycle-and its reverse-why it is still spinning at the heart of life and death today. Lane reveals the beautiful, violent world within our cells, where hydrogen atoms are stripped from the carbon skeletons of food and fed to the ravenous beast of oxygen. Yet this same cycle, spinning in reverse, also created the chemical building blocks that enabled the emergence of life on our planet. Now it does both. How can the same pathway create and destroy? What might our study of the Krebs cycle teach us about the mysteries of aging and the hardest problem of all, consciousness? Transformer unites the story of our planet with the story of our cells-what makes us the way we are, and how it connects us to the origin of life. Enlivened by Lane's talent for distilling and humanizing complex research, Transformer offers an essential read for anyone fascinated by biology's great mysteries. Life is at root a chemical phenomenon: this is its deep logic.
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Thanks to the ICT economy, today's world is witnessing a progressive process of transfer and movement from a society founded on the production of merchandise and material goods made by man to a new society driven by sciences and knowledge. This new society utilises human intelligence in an attempt to solve cultural problems, to support activities, to rationalize performance, to plan, to program, and to elaborate strategies and projects for the future.This book, thus, proposes a multifaceted framework where contemporary art, biology, the digital, geology, technology, physiology, chemistry and philosophy enter into debate and complete one another. It revolves around a number of questions which are logically interconnected, such as, "What is bio-art?" "Can a laboratory artist manipulate living things, make complex hybridizations, and give birth to chimeras that would coexist with human beings?" "Do we have the right to use them?" Should we authorize research that will allow the development of these techniques, prohibit it, or finance it?" "Do we have the right to create embryos for transplantation or injection?".
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• Introduction
• Part I. General Issues: 1. Science, Biology, and Religion
• 2. The Origin and Nature of Life
• 3. The Question of Design in Living Systems
• 4. Biology and the Problem of Natural Evil
• 5. Progress, Purpose, and Providence
• Part II. Religion and Human Biology: 6. Human Nature and Human Uniqueness
• 7. Love and Altruism in Biology and Religion
• 8. Biology, Ethics, and Debunking Arguments
• 9. Biological Accounts of Religion
• 10. Humanity, Religion, and the Environment.
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The intersection of biology and religion has spawned exciting new areas of academic research that raise issues central to understanding our own humanity and the living world. In this comprehensive and accessible survey, Michael L. Peterson and Dennis R. Venema explain the engagement between biology and religion on issues related to origins, evolution, design, suffering and evil, progress and purpose, love, humanity, morality, ecology, and the nature of religion itself. Does life have a chemical origin - or must there be a divine spark? How can religious claims about divine goodness be reconciled with widespread predation, suffering, and death in the animal kingdom? Peterson and Venema develop a philosophical discussion around such controversial questions. The book situates each topic in its historical, scientific, and theological context, making it the perfect introduction for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, scholars, and the interested general reader.
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• 1. Introduction to Biological Concepts and Research. UNIT ONE: MOLECULES AND CELLS.
• 2. Life, Chemistry, and Water.
• 3. Biological Molecules: The Carbon Compounds of Life.
• 4. Cells.
• 5. Membranes and Transport.
• 6. Energy, Enzymes, and Biological Reactions.
• 7. Cellular Respiration: Harvesting Chemical Energy.
• 8. Photosynthesis.
• 9. Cell Communication.
• 10. Cell Division and Mitosis. UNIT TWO: GENETICS.
• 11. Meiosis: The Cellular Basis of Sexual Reproduction.
• 12. Mendel, Genes, and Inheritance.
• 13. Genes, Chromosomes, and Human Genetics.
• 14. DNA Structure, Replication, and Organization.
• 15. Gene Expression: From DNA to Protein.
• 16. Regulation of Gene Expression.
• 17. Bacterial and Viral Genetics.
• 18. DNA Technology: Making and Using Genetically Altered Organisms, and Other Applications.
• 19. Genomes and Proteomes. UNIT THREE: EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY.
• 20. The Development of Evolutionary Thought.
• 21. Microevolution: Genetic Changes within Populations.
• 22. Speciation.
• 23. Paleobiology and Macroevolution.
• 24. Systematic Biology: Phylogeny and Classification. UNIT FOUR: BIODIVERSITY.
• 25. The Origin of Life.
• 26. Prokaryotes and Viruses.
• 27. Protists.
• 28. Seedless Plants.
• 29. Seed Plants.
• 30. Fungi.
• 31. Animal Phylogeny, Acoelomates, and Protostomes.
• 32. Deuterostomes: Vertebrates and Their Closest Relatives. UNIT FIVE: PLANT STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION.
• 33. The Plant Body.
• 34. Transport in Plants.
• 35. Plant Nutrition.
• 36. Reproduction and Development in Flowering Plants.
• 37. Plant Signals and Responses to the Environment. UNIT SIX: ANIMAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION.
• 38. Introduction to Animal Organization and Physiology.
• 39. Information Flow and the Neuron.
• 40. Nervous Systems.
• 41. Sensory Systems.
• 42. The Endocrine System.
• 43. Muscles, Bones, and Body Movements
• 44. The Circulatory System.
• 45. Defenses against Disease.
• 46. Gas Exchange: The Respiratory System.
• 47. Digestive Systems and Animal Nutrition.
• 48. Regulating the Internal Environment: Osmoregulation, Excretion, and Thermoregulation.
• 49. Animal Reproduction.
• 50. Animal Development. UNIT SEVEN: ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR.
• 51. Ecology and the Biosphere.
• 52. Population Ecology.
• 53. Population Interactions and Community Ecology.
• 54. Ecosystems.
• 55. Biodiversity and Conservation Biology.
• 56. Animal Behavior.
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This updated Fifth Edition of BIOLOGY: THE DYNAMIC SCIENCE is a readable and understandable foundation for introductory biology students. Clarity of presentation, thoughtful organization, a logical and seamless flow of topics within chapters, and carefully designed illustrations are hallmarks of this text. The accompanying MindTap for Biology includes multimedia instruction, assessments, videos, personalized study tools and more. With this easy-to-read, engaging text, you'll leave your introductory biology course armed with intellectual skills that will enable you to evaluate future knowledge with a critical eye.
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• 1. Invitation to Biology. UNIT I: HOW CELLS WORK.
• 2. Molecules of Life.
• 3. Cell Structure.
• 4. Energy and Metabolism.
• 5. Photosynthesis.
• 6. Releasing Chemical Energy. UNIT II: GENETICS.
• 7. DNA Structure and Function.
• 8. Gene Expression and Control.
• 9. How Cells Reproduce.
• 10. Patterns of Inheritance.
• 11. Biotechnology. UNIT III: EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY.
• 12. Evidence of Evolution.
• 13. Processes of Evolution.
• 14. Prokaryotes, Protists, and Viruses.
• 15. Plants and Fungi.
• 16. Animal Evolution. UNIT IV: ECOLOGY.
• 17. Population Ecology.
• 18. Communities and Ecosystems.
• 19. The Biosphere and Human Effects. UNIT V: HOW ANIMALS WORK.
• 20. Animal Tissues and Organs.
• 21. How Animals Move.
• 22. Circulation and Respiration.
• 23. Immunity.
• 24. Digestion and Excretion.
• 25. Neural Control and the Senses.
• 26. Endocrine Control.
• 27. Reproduction and Development. UNITY VI: HOW PLANTS WORK.
• 28. Plant Form and Function.
• 29. Plant Reproduction and Development.
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Succeed in your biology course with this updated Sixth Edition of BIOLOGY TODAY AND TOMORROW WITH PHYSIOLOGY. Packed with real-world applications, the book offers chunked content in a clear, straightforward writing style, beautiful art and a variety of in-text learning tools. The accompanying MindTap for Biology includes multimedia instruction, assessments, videos, personalized study tools and more. With this easy-to-read, engaging text, you'll learn about biology from the perspective of issues relevant to your daily life.
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• Biophilia
• Diversity of life
• Naturalist

"Library of America presents three environmental classics from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner E. O. Wilson, a masterful writer-scientist whose graceful prose is equal to his groundbreaking discoveries. These books illuminate the evolution and complex beauty of our imperiled ecosystems and the flora, fauna, and civilization they sustain, even as they reveal the personal evolution of one of the greatest scientific minds of our age. Here are the lyrical, thought-provoking essays of Biophilia, a field biologist's reflections on the manifold meanings of wilderness. Here too is his magisterial, dazzlingly informative Diversity of Life: a sweeping tour of global biodiversity and a prophetic call to preserve the planet, filled on every page with little-known creatures, unique habitats, and fascinating ecological detail. Also included is Wilson's moving autobiography, Naturalist. Following him from his outdoor boyhood in Alabama and the Florida panhandle to the rainforests of Surinam and New Guinea--from his first discoveries as a young ant specialist to his emergence as a champion of conservation and rewilding--it rounds out a collection that will inspire wonder, curiosity, and love for a natural world

• Introduction: The Genesis of Biosemiotic Criticism: How the Future "Presents" the Past
• 1. Modeling "Nature-Texts" in Literature and Literary Criticism
• 2. Evolutionary Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism
• 3. Communicative Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism
• 4. Hierarchical Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism
• 5. Significational Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism
• 6. Analogical Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism Conclusion: Hybrid Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism: A Prospectus.
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This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise. For Jurij Lotman and Thomas A. Sebeok, "nature writing is essentially a model of the relationship between humans and nature" (Timo Maran); biosemiotic literary criticism, itself a form of nature writing and thus itself an ecological-niche-making enterprise, will be considered to be a model of modeling, a model of nature naturing. Modes and models of analysis drawn from Thomas A. Sebeok and Marcel Danesi's Forms of Meaning: Modeling Systems Theory and Semiotic Analysis as well as from Timo Maran's work on "modeling the environment in literature, " Edwina Taborsky's writing on Peircean semiosis, and, of course, Jesper Hoffmeyer's formative work in biosemiotics are among the most important organizing elements for this volume. .
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• Chemical Earth
• Physical Earth
• Biological Earth
• Oxygen Earth
• Animal Earth
• Green Earth
• Catastrophic Earth
• Human Earth

"A sublime chronicle of our planet." -Booklist, STARRED review Harvard's acclaimed geologist "charts Earth's history in accessible style" (AP) How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of the above. The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we've been and where we're going. Features original illustrations depicting Earth history and nearly 50 figures (maps, tables, photographs, graphs).
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