The problems of biology
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The problems of biology
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Oxford University Press, 1986
- pbk.
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Bibliography: p. [125]-131
Includes index
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ISBN 9780192192134
Description
What are genes and what do they do? How and why did evolution happen? These and other fundamental questions in biology are introduced in this book. It presents modern ideas in lay terms, concentrating on unsolved problems such as evolution, development, and cognition, and also provides a non-technical account of the recent advances in molecular genetics that underly modern biology.
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pbk. ISBN 9780192891983
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Concentrating on problems that commonly perplex general readers and beginning students, John Maynard Smith discusses fundamental issues in biology, with emphasis on evolution, development, and cognition. He provides a nontechnical account of molecular genetics, which is the foundation of modern biology, and explores such issues as heredity, animal behavior, the definition and origin of life, the brain and how we know things, artificial and natural intelligence, and genetics. The book is unique in presenting modern ideas in terms that can be understood without an in-depth knowledge of biology.
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