The Story of Life: Great Discoveries in Biology

by Sean B. Carroll

Overview

Biology’s great discoveries and the people who make them

A unique opportunity for students to learn biology through stories told by one of the great science storytellers of our time: Sean B. Carroll. This enriching text follows the structure of an introductory biology course, with brief chapters that span the breadth of the life sciences. This gives maximum flexibility to assign a few stories, or all of them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393631562
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/11/2019
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sean B. Carroll is professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His first book, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, was a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Carroll’s seminal scientific work has been featured in Time and The New Yorker. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Preface Why Stories? xix

Part I The Process of Science 1

1 Guts and Glory 2

2 First Do No Harm 14

Part II Heredity 23

3 Like Beads on a Necklace 24

4 Who Would Have Guessed It? 36

5 The Secret of Life 47

6 Genes as Medicine 64

Part III Evolution and the Origins of Biological Diversity 77

7 Great Minds Think Alike 78

8 An Explosion of Animals 96

9 Evolution by Merger 111

10 A Third Form of Life 123

11 Queen of the Stone Age 135

12 A Little Bit of Neanderthal in Many of Us 153

Part IV Ecology 167

13 You Are Who You Eat 168

14 Why Is the World Green? 180

15 A Rule of Thumb (to Save the World) 192

16 The Future of Life on a Hockey Stick 206

Part V Physiology and Medicine 219

17 Unleashing Potential 220

18 The Arsenal of Immunity 229

19 Everyone Has a Split Personality 240

Appendix: The Scientific Process App-1

Notes N-1

Bibliography B-1

Acknowledgments ACK-1

Index I-1