Carl Zimmer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We are most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 657 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. The birth of genetics in the early 1900s seemed to do precisely that. Gradually, people translated their old notions about heredity into a language of genes. As the technology for studying genes became cheaper, millions of people ordered genetic tests to link themselves to missing parents, to distant ancestors, to ethnic...
8) Virus
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Contrary to popular belief, not all viruses are bad for you. In fact, several are beneficial to their hosts, and many are crucial to the health of our planet. Virus offers an unprecedented look at 101 incredible microbes that infect all branches of life on Earth-- from humans and other animals to insects, plants, fungi, and bacteria."--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
256 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Eldredge's groundbreaking work is now accepted as the definitive statement of how life as we know it evolved on Earth. This book chronicles how Eldredge made his discoveries and traces the history of life through the lenses of paleontology, geology, ecology, anthropology, biology, genetics, zoology, mammalogy, herpetology, entomology and botany. While rigorously accurate, the text is accessible, engaging and free of jargon.
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 269 pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 364 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the development and spread of the theory of evolution, from Darwin's "Origin of Species" to the Human Genome Project and beyond, and explains how the process works.
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
xix, 248 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The essays in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing probe at the ordinary and urge us to think more deeply about our place in the world around us. From a hopeful portrait of a future for people with Alzheimer's disease, to a fascinating exploration of the rise of nearsightedness in children, to the heroic story of a herd of cows that evaded a hurricane, these selections reveal how science and nature shape our everyday lives. With tremendous...
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 318 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2013, including works by such authors as Katherine Bagley, Barbara Kingsolver, Fred Pearce, and Carl Zimmer.