To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Evolutionary Biology  Human Evolution

Quirks of Human Anatomy An Evo-Devo Look at the Human Body

Popular Science
By: Lewis I Held, Jr.(Author)
274 pages, 24 b/w illustrations, 3 tables
Quirks of Human Anatomy
Click to have a closer look
Select version
  • Quirks of Human Anatomy ISBN: 9780521732338 Paperback May 2009 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
    £37.99
    #236792
  • Quirks of Human Anatomy ISBN: 9780521518482 Hardback May 2009 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
    £73.99
    #236791
Selected version: £37.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Biography Related titles

About this book

With the emergence of the new field of evolutionary developmental biology we are witnessing a renaissance of Darwin's insights 150 years after his On the Origin of Species. Thus far, the exciting findings from 'evo-devo' have only been trickling into college courses and into the domain of non-specialists. With its focus on the human organism, Quirks of Human Anatomy opens the floodgates by stating the arguments of evo-devo in plain English, and by offering a cornucopia of interesting case studies and examples. Its didactic value is enhanced by 24 schematic diagrams that integrate a host of disparate observations, by its Socratic question-and-answer format, and by its unprecedented compilation of the literature. By framing the 'hows' of development in terms of the 'whys' of evolution, it lets readers probe the deepest questions of biology. Readers will find Quirks of Human Anatomy educational and enjoyable, as it revels in the fun of scientific exploration.

Contents

1. Background
2. Symmetry and asymmetry
3. Mysteries of the midline
4. Merism and modularity
5. Sexual dimorphisms
6. Silly, stupid, and dangerous quirks
7. Mind and brain

Customer Reviews

Biography

Dr Lewis I. Held earned his BS in Life Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. On completion of his PhD in molecular biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977, he became a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine's Developmental Biology Center from 1977 to 1980. Following a 6-year period as an Assistant Professional Research Biologist at the University of California, Irvine, he joined Texas Tech University as an Associate Professor of Biology in 1987. He was awarded the President's Excellence in Teaching Medal from Texas Tech University in 1995 and is the author of Models for Embryonic Periodicity and Imaginal Discs: The Genetic and Cellular Logic of Pattern Formation.

Popular Science
By: Lewis I Held, Jr.(Author)
274 pages, 24 b/w illustrations, 3 tables
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides