Sentences with phrase «book on the biology»

In one sustained series, she uses an appropriated visual lexicon of 276 images gleaned from diverse sources (books on biology, phrenology, and physics; tattoos, stamps, and cartoons; etc.), reconfiguring public information into the private space of the imagination.

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«For example, if you've got a biology test coming up and you're having problems explaining evolution in simple terms, open up the biology book and start re-reading the section on evolution.

If you don't have a background in genetics or molecular biology, perhaps the best book for you on the subject is the following.

Atheist Terry Eagleton wrote a review for the London Review of Books entitled «Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching» that began with the memorable quote: «Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.»

Without entering into the intricacies of scientific discussion itself, the present book's reflections on the meaning of revelation will presuppose the framework of the new cosmology that has been emerging for some time now out of contemporary physics, astrophysics, and biology.

He added he had just completed a book on a Whiteheadian interpretation of biology called A Contribution to the Theory of the Living Organism (CTLO).

Agar's book was such a beacon for me that I invited him in 1943, through the students» biological society in the University of Adelaide, to travel to Adelaide to give three lectures on the philosophy of biology.

Acknowledging that Darwin's book «was thought by many to have an injurious bearing on the argument from design,» Cooke's idea was to bypass biology entirely, thereby eluding the grasp of Darwin's invisible hand.

To name just four academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of rape.

A mother six times over, it quickly becomes clear that her point of view is based not only on biology and sound evidence — these practices have actually enriched her own family life and her latest book is a letter to other parents detailing how we too can strengthen our family's connection as well, when applied with practicality.

CHRISTINE STEWART FITZGERALD: So it sounds like you're looking at it from the biological standpoint and I think incorporating what we talked about earlier, some of those different cycles on looking at their individual needs and you can kind of customize that because I think you know, kind of what Jen said earlier is that there's a lot of different books out there that will talk about the new onesies of each of these but as a parent, I think you just have to find what works for you and their biology is going to be different and their temperaments are different and it's not a one size fits all approach.

And Paul Tyler literally wrote the book on deep - sea biology.

De Silva, who made the switch from astrophysics to biology, first got exposure to biology on the statistics end of a genetic - population project, which prompted him to read those biology books by moonlight.

A moist prairie plant, it has dwindled due to fire - suppression and agriculture, said Scot Duncan, a biology professor at Birmingham - Southern College and author of Southern Wonder, a book on Southern ecology.

A 57 - year - old high school biology teacher — «I'm on the front lines of the evolution issue,» he says — he describes his religion as «Einsteinian / Spinozan,» lives surrounded by books, loves dancing and blues guitar, and lists his greatest sources of enjoyment as «kids, thinking clearly and critically, walking in the woods.»

New Scientist offers help by reviewing books on chemistry, biology, computing and physics

Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last time biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution; by which they may enlist creationists and their claims, was taken out by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually by the school board members.

At the symposium, Matthew Teasdale, a postdoc in Dan Bradley's lab at Trinity College in Dublin, reported on the biology of another valuable text: the York Gospels, thought to have been written around 990 C.E. DNA from this book's eraser shavings showed that, aside from some sheep, its pages were mostly calfskin — mainly from female calves, which was unexpected because cows were usually allowed to grow up to bear offspring.

Assessment This is the best book I've reviewed on stem cell biology.

According to this excellent book on stem - cell biology, the volume of stem - cell research is now overwhelming, and the prospects for extended clinical use are great.

«Thanks to improvements in the understanding of AML biology, a multiplicity of so - called targeted therapies and therapies based on differential pathophysiology of leukemic stem cells compared with normal counterparts have emerged,» noted Richard M. Stone, MD, clinical director of the Adult Leukemia Program at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and colleagues, writing in a review for the ASCO 2017 Educational Book.

Tanya has edited several books on mycobacteria and published numerous papers on the basic biology and genetics of M. tuberculosis.

Urban evolution is a field that's «about to explode,» according to Jonathan Losos, an evolutionary ecologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and author of a recent book on the evolving science of evolutionary biology, who was not involved in the study.

His books on crystal engineering (Elsevier, 1989) and the weak hydrogen bond in structural chemistry and biology (OUP, 1999) are particularly well known.

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For example, I am always in the middle of a new book that's relevant to my business, whether it's on skin biology, aromatherapy, or nutrition.

You can find more about biohacking, the art of changing your environment and your biology so you perform better in his new book The Bulletproof Diet, and also on The Bulletproof Executive website.

You can find more about biohacking, the art of changing your environment and your biology, so you perform better in his book The Bulletproof Diet, and also on The Bulletproof Executive website, Facebook, and Twitter.

People have a complicated — and varied — biology and it is impossible to micromanage individual nutrients — if you do finish PHD you should move on to an author who really knows his stuff and has actually done nutrition / cancer research like T. Colin Campbell, in his new book Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition, and also his first book the China Study.

As his health begins to falter and Thomas Huxley (Infamous «Toby Jones), a strident comrade - in - reason, urges him on, Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book On the Origin of Species, which would of course go on to lay the foundation for much of evolutionary biologon, Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book On the Origin of Species, which would of course go on to lay the foundation for much of evolutionary biologOn the Origin of Species, which would of course go on to lay the foundation for much of evolutionary biologon to lay the foundation for much of evolutionary biology.

The other two books are centered in Earth science and biology — so they focus on the environment and on genes and DNA.

In fact, as Lise Eliot delineates in her new book, Pink Brain, Blue Brain, the way people interact with babies is based on assumptions about gender differences that have little basis in biology, but are part and parcel of our earliest socialization.

Erik is looking for the following: literary / upmarket fiction with an emphasis on plot (as in, nothing too slow / quiet / static); popular and academic / trade science nonfiction, especially evolutionary biology; narrative history and biography; contemporary culture criticism (think Klosterman); sports books, if it's got a scope that extends past just games and players and into culture / larger issues.

• Bloomsbury is launching a new popular science imprint, Sigma, which will feature books on subjects such as evolutionary biology, astronomy, robotics, bioengineering and climatology.

Add to that the pair's love of prehistoric animals and Reinhart's degree in biology, and a pop - up book on dinosaurs couldn't have been a more perfect project.

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I found one such book on a friend's shelf that was clearly spawned from the Sparkly Vampire craze (think fallen angels in biology instead) and read several chapters allowed — I laughed so hard I cried, and it was not meant to be funny.

Their prices are on the higher side compared to the other sites we've reviewed, with the cost of renting a biology book ranging from $ 64 to $ 89.

Dr. Modiano has co-authored more than 40 peer - reviewed scientific manuscripts, and over 80 abstracts, presentations, and book chapters focused on various aspects of immunology, cancer cell biology, the genetic basis of cancer and applications of gene therapy

Raymond Coppinger, 80, professor emeritus of biology and author of various books on dogs and about 50 published scientific papers passed away Monday, August 14, His Ph. D. thesis in biology at the University of Massachusetts is on the effect of experience and novelty on avian feeding behavior.

Dr. Peter Warshall (great ecologist, birder, desert denizen, Bio-neer, Northern Jaguar Alliance, author working on a book about color and vision in nature, etc) was telling me (and I wish I had taken proper notes and references) that he had read an article in a technical biology journal of some sort showing that the DNA of a ancient bacterium had been absorbed into the DNA of the host creature, and that on further looking we may find that creatures are constantly acquiring whole sections of DNA by some unknown process.

For the book, 46 experts from the fields of architecture, biology, economy and other disciplines have worked together to visualise our impact on the planet and to come up with creative proposals to create a different culture, for a more sustainable society.

My friend was able to procure a biology textbook from a friend whose child had used it and he was able to bone up on Biology and Anatomy just by reading through the book.

In his work on reproductive biology and population policy with the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and in his books on reproductive rights, he argued that institutions and people can learn the principles of scientific theory and that scientific theory should be used to enhance social policy.