Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 480 pages
- Published by: Brooks Cole
- Edition: 1st Edition August 6, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0495010316
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0495010319
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Book Dimensions:
10.8 x 8.9 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 2.2 pounds
Product Description
Biology: The Dynamic Science is the first general biology text with an experimental approach that connects historical research, recent advances achieved with molecular tools, and a glimpse of the future through the eyes of prominent researchers working on key unanswered questions of the day. This comprehensive framework doesn't come at the expense of essential concepts. Rather, it provides a meaningful, realistic context for learning all of the core material that students must master in their first course. Written "from the ground up" with minimal jargon and crisp, straight forward explanations of the current state of biological knowledge, the text supports students as they learn the scientific process-and how to think as scientists do.
About The Author
Peter J. Russell [Reed College (Ph.D., Cornell University)] received a B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Sussex, England, in 1968, and a Ph.D. in Genetics from Cornell University in 1972. Immediately thereafter, he joined the Biology faculty of Reed College, where he is currently a Professor of Biology. He served as Chair of the Biology Department for six years. He was Principal Investigator/Program Director of an NSF Award for the Integration of Research and Education (AIRE) to Reed College, 1998-2002; among other things, the Award funded an Undergraduate Research Mentor Program.
Stephen L. Wolfe [U of California, Davis (Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins University)] taught general biology and cell biology for many years at the University of California, Davis. His textbooks include multiple editions of Biology of the Cell, Biology: The Foundations, Cell Ultrastructure, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology.
Paul E. Hertz [ Barnard University (Ph.D.,
Harvard University)]received a bachelor's degree in Biology at
Stanford University in 1972, a master's degree in Biology at
Harvard University in 1973, and a doctorate in Biology at
Harvard University in 1977. While completing field research for the doctorate, he served on the Biology faculty of the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras. Hertz accepted a teaching position at Barnard College, where he has taught since 1979. He is currently the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Biology at Barnard College. He has also been the Program Director of the Hughes Science Pipeline Project at Barnard, an undergraduate curriculum and research program funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, since its inception in 1992. Professor Hertz is an animal physiological ecologist with a specific research interest in the thermal biology of lizards and other ectothermic vertebrates.
For the past two decades, Cecie Starr has been one of the best-selling biology textbook authors. Her texts, appreciated for their clarity in both the written word and the visual representation of biological concepts, include multiple editions of BIOLOGY: THE UNITY AND DIVERSITY OF LIFE, BIOLOGY: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS, and BIOLOGY TODAY AND TOMORROW.
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