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Cellular Slime Molds by John Tyler Bonner
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.05Professor Bonner has rewritten more than half of this standard treatise to take account of the great amount of recent research on the cellular slime molds. He has included a larger selection of... -
Randomness in Evolution by John Tyler Bonner 9780691157016
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02John 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... -
The Evolution of Culture in Animals by John Tyler Bonner 9780691023731
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Animals do have culture, maintains this delightfully illustrated and provocative book, which cites a number of fascinating instances of animal communication and learning. John Bonner traces the... -
First Signals: The Evolution of Multicellular Development by John Tyler Bonner
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.19The 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... -
The Social Amoebae: The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds by John Tyler Bonner
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Noted 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... -
Size and Cycle: An Essay on the Structure of Biology by John Tyler Bonner 9780691624372
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93A discussion of life cycles and individual size in organisms, and of the relationships between the two, and of their conjoint role in evolution. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy... -
Lives of a Biologist: Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science by John Tyler Bonner 9780674007635
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £38.01Beginning with the discovery of genes on chromosomes and culminating with the unmasking of the most minute genetic mysteries, the twentieth century saw astounding and unprecedented progress in the... -
Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales by John Tyler Bonner 9780691254401
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.23John 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... -
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin 9780691023694
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65In the current resurgence of interest in the biological basis of animal behavior and social organization, the ideas and questions pursued by Charles Darwin remain fresh and insightful. This is... -
Symmetry by Hermann Weyl
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.15Symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians. Hermann Weyl explores the concept of symmetry... -
From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books by Charles Darwin 9780393061345
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.68Never before have the four great works of Charles Darwin-Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871), and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals... -
Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? by Michael Ruse 9780674016316
Booksplease Price: £29.09The intricate forms of living things bespeak design, and thus a creator: nearly 150 years after Darwin's theory of natural selection called this argument into question, we still speak of life in... -
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £52.95Booksplease Price: £45.05When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. Although voted by officers and fellows of... -
How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science by J. Michael Bishop
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. In this book, Bishop tells us how he and Varmus... -
Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction? by Michael Ruse 9780674005433
Booksplease Price: £28.62With the recent Sokal hoax--the publication of a prominent physicist's pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies--the status of science moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science...