Authors:
- Makes modern cell biology comprehensible to the non-specialist
- Integrates cell biology with origin-of-life theories
- Adopts a distinctive position in respect of extraterrestrial life and human uniqueness
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
I have read some of the chapters and I am most impressed. It is well written, scholarly and deals with the subject in "4-D" i.e. not as we know it now but as knowledge developed in time. For me, who has lived through the development of the subject since the late 1960s and reviewed the literature as far back as Hippocrates, it was like reading a novel that I could not put down.
Prof. A Nicolaides MS FRCS
"This delightfully written book addresses major questions and some of the biggest ideas in biology today. … The book is moderately well-illustrated with photomicrographs and line drawings … . The book includes numerous insightful analogies and covers somewhat offbeat topics that an instructor could easily adapt to enliven classroom presentations. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above." (P. E. Hertz, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (2), 2007)
Authors and Affiliations
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Theoretical and Cell Biology Consultancy, Glossop, Derbyshire, U.K.
Paul S. Agutter
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BioMedES, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, U.K.
Denys N. Wheatley
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: About Life
Book Subtitle: Concepts in Modern Biology
Authors: Paul S. Agutter, Denys N. Wheatley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5418-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5417-4Published: 23 January 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7363-1Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5418-1Published: 06 March 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 244
Topics: Cell Biology, Neurosciences, Ecosystems, Evolutionary Biology