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      Why Size Matters

      John Tyler Bonner

      John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he…

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      The Evolution of Culture in Animals

      John Tyler Bonner

      More than fifty illustrations highlight a provocative study tracing the origins of culture as man now knows it back to the early biological evolution of animals.

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      First Signals: The Evolution of Multicellular Development

      John Tyler Bonner

      This work investigates a moment in evolution when development was at its most basic - the moment when signalling between cells began. Using slime mould as an example, the author…

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      The Evolution of Complexity by Means of Natural Selection

      John Tyler Bonner

      How is it that an egg turns into an elaborate adult? How is it that a bacterium, given many millions of years, could have evolved into an elephant? The author…

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      The Social Amoebae: The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds

      John Tyler Bonner

      Slime molds are very different from other organisms; they feed as individual amoebae before coming together to form a multicellular organism that has a remarkable ability to move and orient…

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      Randomness in Evolution

      John Tyler Bonner

      John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology. In this concise, elegantly written book, he makes the bold and…

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      Life Cycles: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist

      John Tyler Bonner

      Within a single captivating narrative, John Bonner combines an intensely personal memoir of scientific progress and an overview of what we now know about living things. Bonner, a major participant…

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      Cellular Slime Molds

      John Tyler Bonner

      Professor Bonner has rewritten more than half of this standard treatise to take account of the great amount of recent research on the cellular slime molds. He has included a…

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      Life Cycles: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist

      John Tyler Bonner

      Within a single captivating narrative, John Bonner combines an intensely personal memoir of scientific progress and an overview of what we now know about living things. Bonner, a major participant…

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      Cellular Slime Molds

      John Tyler Bonner

      Professor Bonner has rewritten more than half of this standard treatise to take account of the great amount of recent research on the cellular slime molds. He has included a…

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      Size and Cycle: An Essay on the Structure of Biology

      John Tyler Bonner

      A discussion of life cycles and individual size in organisms, and of the relationships between the two, and of their conjoint role in evolution. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton…

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      Cells and Societies

      John Tyler Bonner

      The howling monkeys of Barro Colorado Island in Panama have a rudimentary language which serves the needs of their social activities. The red deer of Scotland, the seals of the…

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      Sixty Years of Biology: Essays on Evolution and Development

      John Tyler Bonner

      This work consists of a series of essays which compare key basic biological principles at different levels, from molecular interactions through multicellular development to behaviour and social interactions. It includes…

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      Sixty Years of Biology: Essays on Evolution and Development

      John Tyler Bonner

      This work consists of a series of essays which compare key basic biological principles at different levels, from molecular interactions through multicellular development to behaviour and social interactions. It includes…

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      Size and Cycle: An Essay on the Structure of Biology

      John Tyler Bonner

      A discussion of life cycles and individual size in organisms, and of the relationships between the two, and of their conjoint role in evolution. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton…

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      Cells and Societies

      John Tyler Bonner

      The howling monkeys of Barro Colorado Island in Panama have a rudimentary language which serves the needs of their social activities. The red deer of Scotland, the seals of the…

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      Lives of a Biologist: Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science

      John Tyler Bonner

      Part autobiography, part history of the extraordinary transformation of biology in his time, Bonner’s book is truly a life in science, the story of what it is to be a…

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      On Development: The Biology of Form

      John Tyler Bonner

      On Development is, as John Tyler Bonner says, a book on ideas, the ideas at stake in the contest to unravel the mechanisms of life. This fluent discussion of developmental…

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      Evolution Und Entwicklung: Reflexionen Eines Biologen

      John Tyler Bonner,Professor of Biology John Tyler Bonner (Princeton University)

      Ich bin mir des vernichtenden Kommentars bewusst, der hinter den Ku- lissen getuschelt wird - namlich, dass ich wie ein Professor klinge -, aber nach all den professoralen Jahren ist…

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      On Growth and Form

      D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

      Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. It is now…

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      On Growth and Form

      D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

      D'Arcy Thompson’s classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take.

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      The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

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      In the resurgence of interest in the biological basis of animal behavior and social organization, the ideas and questions pursued by Charles Darwin remain insightful. This title describes that human…

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