For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo--Evolutionary Developmental Biology--is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the pages of his rich and riveting book, Sean B. Carroll explains how we are discovering that complex life is ironically much simpler than anyone ever expected.
For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo--Evolutionary Developmental Biology--is the...
An award-winning biologist takes us on the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet.
Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species history was a set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. In the tradition of "The Microbe Hunters "and" Gods," "Graves," "and" "Scholars," Sean Carroll leads a rousing voyage that recounts the most important discoveries in two centuries of natural history: from Darwin s trip around the world to Charles Walcott s...
An award-winning biologist takes us on the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet.
Winner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books A modern voyage of discovery. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author of The Lightness of Being The Higgs boson is one of our era s most fascinating scientific frontiers and the key to understanding why mass exists. The most recent book on the subject, The God Particle, was a bestseller. Now, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll documents the doorway that is opening after billions of dollars and the efforts of thousands of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland into the...
Winner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books A modern voyage of discovery. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate...
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* "Vivid . . . impressive. . . . Splendidly informative."--The New York Times "Succeeds spectacularly."--Science "A tour de force."--Salon
Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on...
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* "Vivid . . . impressive. . . . Splendidly informative."--The New York Times<...
