The Serengeti Rules : The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters - With a new Q&A with the author /

How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the storie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carroll, Sean B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Edición:With a new Q&A with the author edition with a New Q&A with the author
Temas:
Biological control systems.
Biologists > Anecdotes.
Biology > Research > Anecdotes.
Ecology.
Life (Biology).
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Miracles and Wonder
  • Part I. Everythings is Regulated
  • 1. The Wisdom of the Body
  • 2. The Economy of Nature
  • Part II. The Logic of Life
  • 3. General Rules of Regulation
  • 4. Fat, Feedback, and a Miracle Fungus
  • 5. Stuck Accelerators and Broken Brakes
  • Part III. The Serengeti Rules
  • 6. Some Animals Are More Equal than Others
  • 7. Serengeti Logic
  • 8. Another Kind of Cancer
  • 9. Take 60 Million Walleye and Call Us in 10 Years
  • 10. Resurrection
  • Afterword: Rules to Live By
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A Conversation with Sean B. Carroll

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