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| Genre/Form: | Essays |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Irving W Knobloch |
| OCLC Number: | 313134 |
| Description: | ix, 491 p. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Biological beginnings. Excerpts from Nature of man, Humours, Aphorisms and regimen / Hippocrates ; Excerpts from De Generatione Animalium (On the Generation of Animals) / Aristotle ; Excerpts from Enquiry into Plants / Theophrastus ; Excerpts from The First Observations on "Little Animals" protozoa and bacteria in waters / Antony van Leeuwenhoek ; The evidence of the descent of man from some lower form / Charles Darwin -- The structure and function of animals. The unsolved problem of development / John Tyler Bonner ; The eve of meiosis (with apologies to Clement C. Moore) / Craig L. Himes ; Luminescence ; Life's mysterious clocks / Frank A. Brown, Jr. ; Avian adaptations ; Blood -- The structure and function of higher plants. Photosynthesis / Johannes van Overbeek, Harry K. Wong ; Respiration / William A. Jensen ; Photoperiod / Arthur W. Galston ; Growth hormones / Arthur W. Galston ; The agricultural sciences / R.E. Geyer ; Tree ferns / Henricks Hodge ; Of molds and men / Richard N. Shoemaker -- Nutrition, health, and disease. Food, facts and fads / Gladys Cook, May Foley ; Horizons in dentistry / George C. Paffenbargar ; Rats, bats and human diseases ; Cancer ; Your heart ; Walter Reed and the conquest of yellow fever / Grace T. Hallock, Clair E. Turner, John J. Lenz, assistant ; Plant pathology and human welfare / A.J. Riker ; Medical utopias / René Dubos -- Ecology. The ecology of man, the animal / S. Charles Kendeigh ; Biology, society, and culture in human ecology / Frederick Sargent II, Demitri B. Shimkin ; The ecology of disease / Marston Bates ; Wastebasket of the earth / William A. Albrecht ; Space tracks / Dwain W. Warner ; Bird migration ; The flower and the bee / Mary S. Percival ; The rain forest / Marston Bates -- Conservation and economic biology. The vandals / Angelo Patri ; The useful and beautiful forest / Erhard Rostlund ; Turning insects against themselves ; Science attacks the screwworm / Norris Randolph ; Bristlecone pine, oldest living thing / Edmund Schulman -- Exobiology. Significance and status of exobiology / Gilbert V. Levin ; The biology of space ; Travelers in space / Samuel Moffat, Elie A. Shneour ; What do we seek in space? / Joshua Lederberg -- Heredity. Gregor Mendel and his work / Hugo Iltis ; The language of the genes / George W. Beadle ; DNA and the chemistry of inheritance / Barry Commoner ; Heredity and Hiroshima / David M. Bonner, Stanley E. Mills -- Origin of Life. Chemical origin of life / Cyril Ponnamperuma ; Chemical evolution / Melvin Calvin ; Life begins / Samuel Moffat, Elie A. Shneour ; On the origin and evolution of living machines / Harold F. Blum ; Spontaneous generation / Irving W. Knobloch -- Evolution. Man and natural selection / Theodosius Dobzhansky ; The two-million-year-old man ; Continuity and change / Samuel Moffat, Elie A. Shneour ; The role of paleontology in the formulation of evolutionary thought / Everett C. Olson ; Flowers, insects, and evolution / Herman F. Becker ; Crop plant evolution / Sir Joseph Hutchinson -- Population and birth control. How many people have ever lived on earth? / Annabelle Desmond ; The world's no. 1 problem / Earl L. Butz ; The population explosion / Leroy Augenstein ; How good is the rhythm method? / Garrett Hardin ; Interstellar migration and the population problem / Garrett Hardin -- Philosophy and science. A biologist's reflections on history / Max Hamburgh ; Front seats for biologists / Wallace O. Fenn ; The road traversed and the road ahead / Theodosius Dobzhansky ; Earthlings in the space age / Ritchie Calder ; The logical basis of biological investigation / Herbert H. Ross ; Science and people / Warren Weaver. |
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