This is a paperback edition of a translation of a book originally printed in German in 1961. Woltereck has done an excellent and very entertaining summary of many related ideas, leading from the origin of life up to some of the quite recent (1961) evolutionary and genetic discoveries. It will be excellent reading for any college student, or for other persons interested in a philosophical approach to life and evolution.
The senior author was a well known plant breeder, agronomist and administrator who realized the need for an up to date text in plant breeding. The junior author has had extensive experience in teaching and practicing the art and science of plant breeding. They have produced a comprehensive text that covers the essential phases of practical plant breeding. The authors indicate that plant breeding is applied genetics, but they do not emphasize the contributions of cytology to genetics.
An outgrowth from an earlier handbook, this volume has been expanded and improved. It covers the coastal side of the Cascade Mountains, in Washington and Oregon, and applies to the vascular plants only.
Most people who have worked or been in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains are familiar with Weber’s “Handbook of Plants of the Colorado Front Range”. The present book is a revision and expansion of the original, and it now includes excellent illustrations contributed by Dr. C. F. Yocom.
This book is an attempt to relate environments to organisms, through the use of many varied examples. The authors believe that ecology is evolution in action, and attempt to introduce the reader to the organism in its environment via the examples. Teachers can easily use the exercises.
In recent years there have been published a considerable number of anthologies representative of the literature of the biological sciences. Despite the many and far-reaching discoveries of the recent two or three decades, much interest still attaches to the earlier work in the field of biology. Indeed, the philosophy of biology cannot be understood without a knowledge of its background.
This is an excellent book which would bring you up-to-date concerning the molecular structure and the function of proteins, virus particles, cellular membranes, mitochondria, chloroplasts, visual receptors, cilia and flagella. It is a product of a lecture series held in the spring of 1965, at the University of Michigan.
This book is a compilation of 30 papers on plant systematics, carefully selected by the compiler to represent studies in anatomy and morphology, cytology, embryology, genetics and biochemical systematics, as well as field and garden studies.
This very remarkable book should be found in the head office of every biology department in the United States and Canada. Compiled under the direction of J. David Lockard, Director of the AIBS Office of Biological Education, it has been published in compliance with original guidelines set forth by an ad hoc committee under the chairmanship of Carlton M. Herman.
This is not a textbook for a course in developmental biology, although it might very well be used for such a book. It consists of a series of papers on 14 different but related topics, written by a large number of different authors, and originally published in a wide variety of separate periodicals.