The Story of Life: Great Discoveries in Biology

The Story of Life: Great Discoveries in Biology

Sean B. Carroll
$34.75
Publication Date: January 9th, 2019
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393631562
Pages:
336
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Description

Biology’s great discoveries and the people who make them

A unique opportunity for students to learn biology through stories told by one of the great science storytellers of our time: Sean B. Carroll. This enriching text follows the structure of an introductory biology course, with brief chapters that span the breadth of the life sciences. This gives maximum flexibility to assign a few stories, or all of them.

About the Author

Sean B. Carroll is professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His first book, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, was a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Carroll’s seminal scientific work has been featured in Time and The New Yorker. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.