Research Catalog

Title

Sixty years of biology : essays on evolution and development / John Tyler Bonner.

Author

Bonner, John Tyler.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Description

x, 143 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• John Tyler Bonner, a major participant in the development of biology as an experimental science, is the author not only of important monographs but also of Life Cycles, which is both a personal memoir and a profound commentary on the central themes of biology. This volume of essays presents new material that extends the concepts from Life Cycles and his other writings.
• Its originality lies in comparing key basic biological processes at different levels, from molecular interactions through multicellular development to behavior and social interactions.
• The first chapter in the book discusses self-organization and natural selection; the second, competition and natural selection; and the third, gene accumulation and gene silencing. The fourth chapter examines the division of labor in organisms at all levels: within the organelles of a cell, within groups of cells in the guise of differentiation, within groups of individuals in an animal society, and within our culturally determined human societies.
• The work closes with a charming personal history of sixty years of changes in the field of biology, including the transformation in the ways that research work is funded.

Alternative Title

60 years of biology

Subjects

• Evolution (Biology)
• Developmental biology
• Natural selection
• Biology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-138) and index.

Contents

1. Self-Organization and Natural Selection -- 2. Competition and Natural Selection -- 3. Gene Accumulation and Gene Silencing -- 4. Why Does Labor Become Divided? -- 5. Sixty Years of Biology.

ISBN

0691021309 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95025638

OCLC

ocm33245882

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Columbia University Libraries