The Problems of Biology

by John Maynard Smith

Book Overview

Concentrating on problems that commonly perplex general readers and beginning students, John Maynard Smith discusses fundamental issues in biology, with emphasis on evolution, development, and cognition. He provides a nontechnical account of molecular genetics, which is the foundation of modern biology, and explores such issues as heredity, animal behavior, the definition and origin of life, the brain and how we know things, artificial and natural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192192132
• ISBN13: 9780192192134
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.5"