Animal Osmoregulation (Oxford Animal Biology Series) by Tim Bradley

The Neural Crest in Development and Evolution

A dialogue of the neural crest and neural crest cells, facing their discovery, their embryological and evolutionary origins, their mobile derivatives - in either agnathan and jawed vertebrates or gnathostomes - and the large subject matters of migration and differentiation in general improvement. The booklet additionally considers what is going improper while improvement is misdirected by way of mutations, or via publicity of embryos to exogenous brokers equivalent to medicines, alcohol, or extra diet A, and contains discussions of tumours and syndromes and start defects regarding neural crest cells.

Evolving Pathways: Key Themes in Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Evolutionary developmental biology, or 'evo-devo', is the examine of the connection among evolution and improvement. Dealing in particular with the generative mechanisms of organismal shape, evo-devo is going directly to the middle of the developmental foundation of version, the uncooked fabric on which traditional choice (and random go with the flow) can paintings.

Biology of Aging

Biology of getting older offers the organic rules that experience ended in a brand new realizing of the explanations of getting older and describes how those simple ideas aid one to appreciate the human adventure of organic getting older, toughness, and age-related sickness. meant for undergraduate biology scholars, it describes how the speed of organic getting older is measured; explores the mechanisms underlying mobile getting older; discusses the genetic pathways that have an effect on durability in numerous organisms; outlines the conventional age-related alterations and the practical decline that happens in physiological structures over the lifespan; and considers the results of modulating the speed of getting older and sturdiness.

The Social Origins of Language (Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Series)

How human language advanced from the necessity for social communicationThe origins of human language stay hotly debated. regardless of becoming appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity among people and different animals, an evolutionary account of human language—in its smooth form—remains as elusive as ever.