Marine Ecology: Processes, Systems, and Impacts offers a carefully balanced and stimulating survey of marine ecology, introducing the key processes and systems from which the marine environment is formed, and the issues and challenges which surround its future conservation.

This book introduces a new field that unites history and biology to create a fuller understanding of the past.

Reflecting new software updates, and with more advanced topics, the Fourth Edition helps the student create phylogenetic trees from protein or nucleic acid sequence data. The reader is taken step-by-step from identifying the sequences required, to drawing the tree for presentation to an intended audience.

Evolution: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the history, development and science of the theory of evolution. Beginning pre-Darwin and concluding with the latest research and controversies, readers are introduced to the origins of the idea of evolution, the ways in which it has developed and been adapted over time and the science underpinning it all. Topics addressed include: * early th...(view full description)

Is it still out there? Thousands of Australians, including dedicated and serious scientists, claim to keep seeing it still. The world's largest marsupial predator was deliberately hunted to extinction through fear, ignorance and greed.

This is the sixth edition of the leading text in the basic methodology of cell culture, worldwide. Updates on molecular hybridization, somatic cell fusion, hybridomas, and DNA transfer.

Intended for students in the biological and agricultural sciences, Animal Physiology has been written to promote the true conceptual understanding necessary to keep pace with today's rapid advance in the biological sciences.

Lets you come face to face with our ancestors and travel back 8 million years. This title takes you on a journey to discover how our species has developed from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans. It documents the story of evolution in visual detail. It profiles every human ancestor from Ardipithecus ramidus to Homo neanderthalensis.

Presents an interactive way of learning human anatomy. From cell to system, this book comprehensively covers every part of the body and offers a highly visual and intuitive approach to learning. It is suitable as a workbook for students of anatomy.

This large reference volume provides a comprehensive overview of the knowledge of vertebrate diversity within Australasia, together with discussion of the factors that influenced the evolution and distribution of the fauna we see today.