Author: Sean B. Carroll Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393330516 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 311
Book Description
A geneticist discusses the role of DNA in the evolution of life on Earth, explaining how an analysis of DNA reveals a complete record of the events that have shaped each species and how it provides evidence of the validity of the theory of evolution.
Author: Sean B. Carroll Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393069699 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 310
Book Description
DNA evidence not only solves crimes—in Sean Carroll's hands it will now end the Evolution Wars. DNA, the genetic blueprint of all creatures, is a stunningly rich and detailed record of evolution. Every change or new trait, from the gaudy colors of tropical birds to our color vision with which we admire them, is due to changes in DNA that leave a record and can be traced. Just as importantly, the DNA evidence has revealed several profound surprises about how evolution actually works.
Author: Andreas Wagner Publisher: Current ISBN: 1617230219 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
"Wagner draws on over fifteen years of research to present the missing piece in Darwin's theory. Using experimental and computational technologies that were heretofore unimagined, he has found that adaptations are not just driven by chance, but by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take"--Amazon.com.
Author: Sean B. Carroll Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393060164 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 388
Book Description
As described in this fascinating book, Evo Devo is evolutionary development biology, the third revolution in the science, which shows how the endless forms of animals--butterflies and zebras, trilobites and dinosaurs, apes and humans--were made and evolved.
Author: Jonathan Kellerman Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0345463714 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 473
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip—lured into the Santa Monica Mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle and no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the essential question: Why? “Feverish in pace and rich in characters . . . a chilling and irresistible thriller.”—People Working with Daniel Sharavi, a brilliant Israeli police inspector, Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And when death strikes again, it is Alex who must go undercover, alone, to expose an unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous brutality and total contempt for human life. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's Guilt.
Author: Stanley Fields Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262518643 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 236
Book Description
How tiny variations in our personal DNA can determine how we look, how we behave, how we get sick, and how we get well. News stories report almost daily on the remarkable progress scientists are making in unraveling the genetic basis of disease and behavior. Meanwhile, new technologies are rapidly reducing the cost of reading someone's personal DNA (all six billion letters of it). Within the next ten years, hospitals may present parents with their newborn's complete DNA code along with her footprints and APGAR score. In Genetic Twists of Fate, distinguished geneticists Stanley Fields and Mark Johnston help us make sense of the genetic revolution that is upon us. Fields and Johnston tell real life stories that hinge on the inheritance of one tiny change rather than another in an individual's DNA: a mother wrongly accused of poisoning her young son when the true killer was a genetic disorder; the screen siren who could no longer remember her lines because of Alzheimer's disease; and the president who was treated with rat poison to prevent another heart attack. In an engaging and accessible style, Fields and Johnston explain what our personal DNA code is, how a few differences in its long list of DNA letters makes each of us unique, and how that code influences our appearance, our behavior, and our risk for such common diseases as diabetes or cancer.
Author: Michael Taylor Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1462060978 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
One night, seven teenagers wake completely alone and in the dark. Their parents are gone, and it seems everyone on earth has disappeared as well. Worse, the electricity is off. Surrounded by darkness, their differences no longer matter; they are the sole survivors of an alien attack and the last hope for humanity. But in the black of night, can they outrun the hulking creatures with the glowing red eyes? Priya is the exotic girl who says what she thinks. Will was a star athlete before the attack. They find Trevor and Aiyana, the twins; Alex and Ricardo, the tough guys; and finally, Lindsey, the innocent. Together, the seven of them are the last humans on earthbut are they really humans at all? They have no idea that the government has known of the incoming alien attack for decades; to prepare they created special children with very special abilities. The chosen seven are part alien and part human, and they exist to fight off the otherworldly forces, threatening to conquer the planet. But with such differing personalities, will the seven be able to put their pride be-hind and work together? They must move beyond the grief of lost friends and family and find the strength to go on; if they dont, the world will die, taken over by monstrous creatures that can smell your fear.
Author: Tyrone Brennand Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing ISBN: 1787135594 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 445
Book Description
Want to learn how to get fit at home – in your own time and with no special equipment necessary? BE THE FITTEST is the powerful, fun and inspirational guide that will change your life. Tyrone is a personal trainer who turned his life around through fitness. In this, his first book, he shares his ground-breaking workout and meal plans so that anyone can learn to BE THE FITTEST in 12 weeks. Train the fittest: 12 weekly workout plans based on Tyrone’s unique method of combining HIIT with yoga, with clear photographs of the exercises and easy-to-use weekly workout schedules Eat the fittest: 60 recipes with photographs and accompanying meal plans, using supermarket ingredients and including time-saving and/or healthy tips and tricks Feel the fittest: essential yoga poses, with clear photographs, as well as breathwork exercises and self-care tips Be the fittest: motivational advice, goal-setting and encouragement to help you sustain the new, fittest you You’ll need no gym membership or expensive ingredients to follow Tyrone’s unbeatable fitness plan. And since the book offers questions to help you figure out what your current level of fitness is, you’ll be able to start working out at a level that suits YOU. Are you ready to BE THE FITTEST?
Author: Michael J. Behe Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743296222 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 339
Book Description
The author of Darwin's Black Box draws on new findings in genetics to pose an argument for intelligent design that refutes Darwinian beliefs about evolution while offering alternative analyses of such factors as disease, random mutations, and the human struggle for survival. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
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