The Serengeti Rules : : The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters - With a new Q&A with the author / / Sean B. Carroll.
How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the storie...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | With a new Q&A with the author edition with a New Q&A with the author |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 26 halftones. 18 line illus. 1 map. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Miracles and Wonder
- Part I. Everythings is Regulated
- 1. The Wisdom of the Body
- 2. The Economy of Nature
- Part II. The Logic of Life
- 3. General Rules of Regulation
- 4. Fat, Feedback, and a Miracle Fungus
- 5. Stuck Accelerators and Broken Brakes
- Part III. The Serengeti Rules
- 6. Some Animals Are More Equal than Others
- 7. Serengeti Logic
- 8. Another Kind of Cancer
- 9. Take 60 Million Walleye and Call Us in 10 Years
- 10. Resurrection
- Afterword: Rules to Live By
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A Conversation with Sean B. Carroll