Best Developmental Biology Books
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1. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
Author: by Nassim Nicholas Nicholas Taleb
English
444 pages
081297381X
The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was.
The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur?
Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know.
2. Essential Cell Biology
Author: by Bruce Alberts
English
864 pages
0393680363
The gold standard textbook, thoroughly updatednow with online homework This text features lively, clear writing and exceptional illustrations, making it the ideal textbook for a first course in both cell and molecular biology. Thoroughly revised and updated, the Fifth Edition maintains its focus on the latest cell biology research.
For the first time ever, Essential Cell Biology will come with access to Smartwork5, Norton’s innovative online homework platform, creating a more complete learning experience.
3. Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race
Author: by Shanna H. Swan
English
304 pages
1982113669
In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changingand endangeringhuman sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale, from renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan.
In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study. They found that over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50 percent. They came to this conclusion after examining 185 studies involving close to 45,000 healthy men.
The result sent shockwaves around the globebut the story didn’t end there. It turns out our sexual development is changing in broader ways, for both men and women and even other species, and that the modern world is on pace to become an infertile one.
How and why could this happen? What is hijacking our fertility and our health? Count Down unpacks these questions, revealing what Swan and other researchers have learned about how both lifestyle and chemical exposures are affecting our fertility, sexual developmentpotentially including the increase in gender fluidityand general health as a species.
4. The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters – With a new Q&A with the author
Author: by Sean B. Carroll
0691175683
Princeton University Press
English
Now the subject of an Emmy Awardwinning film the New York Times calls “spellbinding”How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream?
In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answers to such simple yet profoundly important questions, and shows how their discoveries matter for our health and the health of the planet we depend upon.
One of the most important revelations about the natural world is that everything is regulatedthere are rules that regulate the amount of every molecule in our bodies and rules that govern the numbers of every animal and plant in the wild.
And the most surprising revelation about the rules that regulate life at such different scales is that they are remarkably similarthere is a common underlying logic of life. Carroll recounts how our deep knowledge of the rules and logic of the human body has spurred the advent of revolutionary life-saving medicines, and makes the compelling case that it is now time to use the Serengeti Rules to heal our ailing planet.
5. 100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive
Author: by The Xerces Society
English
240 pages
1612127010
The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that support bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds.
The recommendations are simple: pick the right plants for pollinators, protect them from pesticides, and provide abundant blooms throughout the growing season by mixing perennials with herbs and annuals! 100 Plants to Feed the Bees will empower homeowners, landscapers, apartment dwellers anyone with a scrap of yard or a window box to protect our pollinators.
6. The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment
Author: by Richard Lewontin
English
144 pages
0674006771
One of our most brilliant evolutionary biologists, Richard Lewontin has also been a leading critic of thosescientists and non-scientists alikewho would misuse the science to which he has contributed so much. In The Triple Helix, Lewontin the scientist and Lewontin the critic come together to provide a concise, accessible account of what his work has taught him about biology and about its relevance to human affairs.
In the process, he exposes some of the common and troubling misconceptions that misdirect and stall our understanding of biology and evolution. The central message of this book is that we will never fully understand living things if we continue to think of genes, organisms, and environments as separate entities, each with its distinct role to play in the history and operation of organic processes.
Here Lewontin shows that an organism is a unique consequence of both genes and environment, of both internal and external features. Rejecting the notion that genes determine the organism, which then adapts to the environment, he explains that organisms, influenced in their development by their circumstances, in turn create, modify, and choose the environment in which they live.
7. Developmental Biology
Author: by Michael J.F. Barresi
ISBN: 978-1605358222
Published at: Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press; 12th edition (July 1, 2019)
Thoroughly updated, streamlined, and enhanced with pedagogical features, the twelfth edition of Barresi and Gilbert’s Developmental Biology engages students and empowers instructors to effectively teach both the stable principles and the newest front-page research of this vast, complex, and multi-disciplinary field.
This much loved, well-illustrated, and remarkably well written textbook invigorates the classical insights of embryology with cutting edge material, and makes the most complex topics understandable to a new generation of students. Designed with the undergraduate student in mind, this new, streamlined edition now contains studies of plant development, expanded coverage of regeneration, over a hundred new and revised illustrations, and deeply integrated active learning resources that build on the text’s enthusiasm and accuracy.
This is a text designed to make students become excited about how animals and plants develop their complex bodies from simple origins. The new edition makes it easier to customize one’s developmental biology course to the needs and interests of today’s students, integrating the printed book with electronic interviews, videos, and tutorials.Michael J.F.
8. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Author: by Matt Ridley
0060894083
Harper Perennial
English
The genome’s been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers.
Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. Questions that will affect the rest of your life. Genome offers extraordinary insight into the ramifications of this incredible breakthrough. By picking one newly discovered gene from each pair of chromosomes and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine.
From Huntington’s disease to cancer, from the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, Matt Ridley probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome. It will help you understand what this scientific milestone means for you, for your children, and for humankind.
9. The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix
Author: by James D. Watson Ph.D.
1476715491
Simon & Schuster
English
On the fiftieth anniversary of Watson and Crick receiving the Nobel Prize, a freshly annotated and illustrated edition of The Double Helix provides new insights into a scientific revolution. Published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Nobel Prize for Watson and Crick’s discovery of the structure of DNA, an annotated and illustrated edition of this classic book gives new insights into the personal relationships between James Watson, Frances Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin, and the making of a scientific revolution.
10. Not In Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature
Author: by Richard Lewontin
Haymarket Books
English
346 pages
Informative, entertaining, lucid, forceful, frequently witty …Never dull … Should be read and remembered for a long time.”New York Times Book Review “The authors argue persuasively that biological explanations for why we act as we do are based on faulty (in some cases, fabricated) data and wild speculation….
It is debunking at its best.”Psychology Today “An important and timely book”Stephen Jay GouldNot in our Genes systematically exposes and dismantles the claims that inequalitiesclass, race, genderare the products of biological, genetic inheritances.
11. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Author: by Matt Ridley
0060556579
Harper Perennial
English
Referring to Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity’s best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture – including why men propose marriage, the method behind our maddening notions of beauty, and the disquieting fact that a woman is more likely to conceive a child by an adulterous lover than by her husband.
Brilliantly written, The Red Queen offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved.
12. Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales Of Love, War, And Genius, As Written By Our Genetic Code
Author: by Sam Kean
Bay Back Books
English
432 pages
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA. In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In The Violinist’s Thumb, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life: DNA.
There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, why other people have no fingerprints, and why some people survive nuclear bombs. Genes illuminate everything from JFK’s bronze skin (it wasn’t a tan) to Einstein’s genius. They prove that Neanderthals and humans bred thousands of years more recently than any of us would feel comfortable thinking.
They can even allow some people, because of the exceptional flexibility of their thumbs and fingers, to become truly singular violinists. Kean’s vibrant storytelling once again makes science entertaining, explaining human history and whimsy while showing how DNA will influence our species’ future.
13. The Cell: A Molecular Approach
Author: by Geoffrey Cooper
English
816 pages
1605357073
Even the most experienced instructor can find teaching cell biology daunting, and most cell biology texts are bogged down in detail or background information. Lost in all the details are the more fascinating material and contemporary advances that represent this rapidly moving field.
With somuch to cover, creating a classroom around active learning may be difficult or nearly impossible. The Cell: A Molecular Approach, Eighth Edition, endeavors to address those issues with succinct writing, incorporation of current research, a test bank that encourages critical thinking, and an active learning framework.
With just enough detail for a one-semester, sophomore/junior level course, thetext presents fundamental concepts and current research, including chapters on Genomics and Transcriptional Regulation and Epigenetics, and new in-text boxed features on Molecular Medicine and Key Experiments. Instructors will appreciate updates to the eighth edition test bank, such as raising theBloom’s level of questions overall, and giving instructors the ability to select questions based on level.
14. The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
Author: by Antonio Damasio
Vintage
English
336 pages
Damasio undertakes nothing less than a reconstruction of the natural history of the universe…. [A] brave and honest book. The New York Times Book Review The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only survival but also the flourishing of life.
Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular existence and other primitive life-forms; and that inherent in our very chemistry is a powerful force, a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life.
The Strange Order of Things is a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture.Www.Antoniodamasio.Com
15. Human Osteology
Author: by Tim D. White
Academic Press
English
688 pages
Book by White, Tim D., Black, Michael T., Folkens, Pieter A.
16. A Million Things To Ask A Neuroscientist: The brain made easy
Author: by Mike Tranter PhD
English
232 pages
0578861690
An easy way to learn about the brain. The most interesting questions you have about the brain are finally answered. How are memories created? Do men and women have different brains? What are dreams and why do we have them?
This book makes the brain fun and easy to enjoy. Anyone who is curious about what really goes on in that mushy pink thing inside their head will enjoy this guide to the brain and neuroscience. Join neuroscientist Mike Tranter PhD as he explains the brain in his unique and funny style.
He answers questions that were submitted by the public, and the best part is, no scientific background is needed whatsoever. Includes a chapter describing some of the strange mysteries about the brain, and a behind the scenes look at how cutting-edge neuroscience research will change the future.
Learn about your brain today.
