Beginning with the discovery of genes on chromosomes and culminating with the unmasking of the most minute genetic mysteries, the twentieth century saw astounding and unprecedented progress in the science of biology. In an illustrious career that spanned most of the century, biologist John Bonner witnessed many of these advances firsthand. Part autobiography, part history of the extraordinary transformation of biology in his time, Bonner's book is truly a life in science, the story of what it is to be a biologist observing the unfolding of the intricacies of life itself.
Bonner's...
Beginning with the discovery of genes on chromosomes and culminating with the unmasking of the most minute genetic mysteries, the twentieth century...
In the current resurgence of interest in the biological basis of animal behavior and social organization, the ideas and questions pursued by Charles Darwin remain fresh and insightful. This is especially true of The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Darwin's second most important work. This edition is a facsimile reprint of the first printing of the first edition (1871), not previously available in paperback.
The work is divided into two parts. Part One marshals behavioral and morphological evidence to argue that humans evolved from other animals. Darwin...
In the current resurgence of interest in the biological basis of animal behavior and social organization, the ideas and questions pursued by Charle...
Animals do have culture, maintains this delightfully illustrated and provocative book, which cites a number of fascinating instances of animal communication and learning. John Bonner traces the origins of culture back to the early biological evolution of animals and provides examples of five categories of behavior leading to nonhuman culture: physical dexterity, relations with other species, auditory communication within a species, geographic locations, and inventions or innovations. Defining culture as the transmission of information by behavioral rather than genetical means, he...
Animals do have culture, maintains this delightfully illustrated and provocative book, which cites a number of fascinating instances of animal comm...
The enormous recent success of molecular developmental biology has yielded a vast amount of new information on the details of development. So much so that we risk losing sight of the underlying principles that apply to all development. To cut through this thicket, John Tyler Bonner ponders a moment in evolution when development was at its most basic--the moment when signaling between cells began. Although multicellularity arose numerous times, most of those events happened many millions of years ago. Many of the details of development that we see today, even in simple organisms, accrued...
The enormous recent success of molecular developmental biology has yielded a vast amount of new information on the details of development. So much ...
John Tyler Bonner makes a new attack on an old problem: the question of how progressive increase in the size and complexity of animals and plants has occurred. "How is it," he inquires, "that an egg turns into an elaborate adult? How is it that a bacterium, given many millions of years, could have evolved into an elephant?" The author argues that we can understand this progression in terms of natural selection, but that in order to do so we must consider the role of development--or more precisely the role of life cycles--in evolutionary change. In a lively writing style that will be...
John Tyler Bonner makes a new attack on an old problem: the question of how progressive increase in the size and complexity of animals and plants h...
On Development is, as John Tyler Bonner says, "a book on ideas," the ideas at stake in the contest to unravel the mechanisms of life. This fluent discussion of developmental biology synthesizes decades of intensive progress in specialized areas of the science: from the dramatic deciphering of the genetic code to detailed analyses of animal behavior patterns. Placing these discoveries in an evolutionary context, Bonner explores the continuities and the transitoriness of individual lives and individual forms.
He begins by discussing the ubiquity among organisms of developmental...
On Development is, as John Tyler Bonner says, "a book on ideas," the ideas at stake in the contest to unravel the mechanisms of life. This f...
Ich bin mir des vernichtenden Kommentars bewusst, der hinter den Ku lissen getuschelt wird - namlich, dass ich wie ein Professor klinge -, aber nach all den professoralen Jahren ist es mir fast unmoglich, die Hauptbe schaftigung meines Lebens zu verbergen. Seit uber vierzig Jahren habe ich den Kursus "allgemeine Biologie" fur Anfanger und Fortgeschrittene Eines Tages besuchte mich eine an der Universitat Princeton gelehrt. Soziologiestudentin und bat mich um ein Interview im Rahmen ihrer Diplomarbeit. Es stellte sich heraus, dass sie Lehren mit Schauspielen vergleichen wollte. Da hatte ich...
Ich bin mir des vernichtenden Kommentars bewusst, der hinter den Ku lissen getuschelt wird - namlich, dass ich wie ein Professor klinge -, aber nach a...
The howling monkeys of Barro Colorado Island in Panama have a rudimentary language which serves the needs of their social activities. The red deer of Scotland, the seals of the Pribilof Islands, the beavers, the social insects, the army ants and termites, and lastly the colonial and single-celled organisms such as amoebae all meet the same basic biological necessities of feeding, reproduction, and social coordination. Though the means of meeting the requirements are amazingly varied, Mr. Bonner shows that these three functions form a basic pattern that can be recognized in amoebae, in...
The howling monkeys of Barro Colorado Island in Panama have a rudimentary language which serves the needs of their social activities. The red deer ...
A discussion of life cycles and individual size in organisms, and of the relationships between the two, and of their conjoint role in evolution.
Originally published in 1965.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the...
A discussion of life cycles and individual size in organisms, and of the relationships between the two, and of their conjoint role in evolution.
Professor Bonner has rewritten more than half of this standard treatise to take account of the great amount of recent research on the cellular slime molds. He has included a larger selection of material, more figures and new plates. The bibliography has been greatly enlarged.
Originally published in 1967.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while...
Professor Bonner has rewritten more than half of this standard treatise to take account of the great amount of recent research on the cellular slim...
