Product Description: By focusing on the cellular mechanisms that underlie ontogeny, phylogeny and regeneration of complex physiologic traits, Evolution, the Logic of Biology demonstrates the use of homeostasis, the fundamental principle of physiology and medicine, as the unifying mechanism for evolution as all of biology...read more

Product Description: Some 3.8 billion years ago, in an era of churning seas and murky skies, a few chemicals combined under the right conditions, and life emerged on planet Earth. From that first cell, life progressed to a myriad of one-celled organisms, to organisms capable of photosynthesis, to multicellular organisms, to simple plant and animal forms, up to the complex life-forms we know today...read more

Product Description: A long time has passed since the war act on Cancer declared by former USA president Nixon, almost half a century ago. Today, after so many years of feverish research and uncountable efforts worldwide, the end of the war appears far as ever, whereas the fight is leading researchers to newer and newer battlefronts while frontiers in bioscience are continuously being surpassed...read more

Product Description: It is now accepted that the first cells derived from simpler "objects", and that their descendants became more and more complicated and ordered until their evolutionary transformation into modern cells, namely, cells endowed with the same basic structures and mechanisms as those existing today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Volume 1 of the series Fundamentals of Medical Cell Biology is devoted to evolutionary biology. This is presented in two parts: in the first, the structure and dynamics of RNA, DNA, and protein are dealt with. The second part is concerned with the origins and cellular basis of life...read more

Product Description: From Contents - Endosymbiotic Theory; Diversity; Cell Evolution in Perspective; Before Cells; Evolution before Oxygen; Atmospheric Oxygen from Phtosynthesis; Symbioses in Evolution; Aerobiosis and Mitochondria; Undulipodia, Mitosis and Meiosis; Spirochetes and Undulipodia; Photosynthesis in Plastids; Phanerozoic Consequences...read more