eBooks - Prof. Eiden; SPRING 2021 - General Biology 1 (115) - (20646) - Harold L. Drimmer Library Research Guides at Westchester Community College Library

Genetics

Everyone Is African / Daniel J. Fairbanks
Call Number: EBook
ISBN: 9781633880184
Publication Date: 2015
"A distinguished research geneticist presents abundant evidence showing that traditional notions about distinct racial differences have little scientific foundation."
The Social Life of DNA : Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome / Alondra Nelson
Call Number: EBook
ISBN: 9780807033012
Publication Date: 2016
Nelson explains how DNA can be an ally to spur social change and transform twenty-first-century racial politics.

Messages from Islands : A Global Biodiversity Tour / Ilkka Hanski
ISBN: 9780226406305
Publication Date: 2016
Ilkka Hanski draws upon the many islands on which he performed fieldwork to explain how species and communities interact in fragmented landscapes, how evolution generates biodiversity, and how this biodiversity is maintained over time.
A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age / David J. Helfand
Call Number: EBook
ISBN: 0231541023
Publication Date: 2016
The author teaches how to develop scientific thinking to counter the encroachment of misinformation on climate change, the food and water crises, biodiversity collapse, and emerging threats to public health.

Lamarck's Revenge : How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution's Past and Present / Peter Ward
Call Number: EBook
ISBN: 9781632866158
Publication Date: 2018
Paleontologist and astrobiologist Peter Ward discusses how our inherited traits have determined our physiology, behavior, and intelligence.
Darwin's on the Origin of Species : A Modern Rendition / Daniel Duzdevich; Olivia Judson (Foreword by)
Call Number: EBook
ISBN: 9780253011749
Publication Date: 2014
A clear, modern English rendering of Darwin’s first edition for contemporary English readers.
Animal Personalities : Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution / Claudio Carere; Dario Maestripieri
Call Number: EBook
ISBN: 9780226922065
Publication Date: 2013
Essays by scholars from diverse fields (ecology, genetics, endocrinology, neuroscience, and psychology), consider the evolutionary processes that give rise to personality and provide a comprehensive overview of the current research.
Randomness in Evolution / John Tyler Bonner
Call Number: EBook
ISBN: 9780691157016
Publication Date: 2013
Bonner shows how the effects of randomness differ for organisms of different sizes and how the smaller an organism is, the more likely it is that morphological differences will be random, and selection may not be involved to any degree.