P Calow: 3 books
Invertebrate Biology
A Functional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Courses on the invertebrates have two principal aims: (1) to introduce students to the diversity of animal life and (2) to make them aware that organisms are marvellously integrated systems with evolutionary pasts and ecological presents. This text is concerned exclusively with the second aim and...
Invertebrate Biology
A Functional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Courses on the invertebrates have two principal aims: (1) to introduce students to the diversity of animal life and (2) to make them aware that organisms are marvellously integrated systems with evolutionary pasts and ecological presents. This text is concerned exclusively with the second aim and...
Life Cycles
An evolutionary approach to the physiology of reproduction, development and ageing
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As time progresses, biology becomes more and more fragmented and specialized and it becomes increasingly difficult to see how all the dis- ! parate facts fit together. It is completely proper that biologists should have sought to reduce complex biological wholes into their parts, and it is natural...