How does the mind 'work'? In his book 'The anticipating mind', Peter Greve combines knowledge from various scientific disciplines with a new approach for describing the mind. This leads to a surprisingly coherent insight in the mental processes that underlie our thoughts and behavior. Among other things, the book offers transparent descriptions of consciousness and creativity, and it explains the way gut feeling, language and intuition cooperate within the body-and-mind systems of animals and...

Kunnen planten horen? Wat is de giftigste paddenstoel ter wereld? Hoe nemen honingbijen een echt democratische beslissing? En wat is "leven" nu eigenlijk?

Ontdek waarom korstmossen eigenlijk doen alsof en wat de Rode Koningin is. Ga in dit boek mee op reis doorheen de levende natuur, waar wetenschap echt tot leven komt. Fysica en chemie schrijven dan wel de regels, maar biologie vertelt het verhaal.

An essential introduction to microbiome science, a new cutting-edge discipline that is transforming the life sciencesThis book provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the fundamental principles of microbiome science, an exciting and fast-emerging new discipline that is reshaping many aspects of the life sciences. Resident microbes in healthy animals--including humans—can dictate many traits of the animal host. This animal microbiome is a second immune system conferring protection ...

Co-published with the IB to fully align with the new 2023 Biology Subject Guide for first assessments in 2025, with separate Standard Level and Higher Level print and digital student books to ensure that every student has the right content for their learning journey, at the right time. New and updated material with familiar features, including Nature of science, global applications, skills, TOK, key fact and ‘Challenge yourself’ boxes that signpost and extend key learning points and cont...

Helps students understand how essential statistical skills apply to analysis across life science fields.

Now available with Macmillan’s ground-breaking online learning platform Achieve, The Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences gives biology students an introduction to statistical practice all their own. It covers essential statistical topics with examples and exercises drawn from across the life sciences, including the fields of nursing, public health, and allied health.

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Principles of Life is engaging, active, and focused on skills.

Research shows that when students engage with a course, it leads to better outcomes. Principles of Life 3e Digital Update is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning system for biology. Achieve supports PoL’s holistic solution that has been designed from the ground up to actively engage students in mastering concepts and becoming skilled at solving biological problems. Achieve includes thoughtfully curated as...

A thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication, and a poignant look at how science may change our relationship with animals forever.

In 2015, wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill was whale watching when a humpback breached onto his kayak and nearly killed him. A video clip of the event went viral, and Tom found himself inundated with theories about what happened. He became obsessed with trying to find out what the whale had been thinking. He wished he could just ask it. In th...

Prompting students to question how they encounter biology in their daily lives.

Available for the first time with Achieve, What is Life? teaches students to ask the questions they need to understand how biology plays out in their daily lives. The rigorously updated fifth edition brings forward the features that made the book a classroom favorite (chapters anchored to intriguing questions about life, spectacular original illustrations, innovative learning tools) with a more focused and flexibl...

It is therefore evident that in order to understand propagation and just what is implied in the act we must make a closer analysis of cell-division, which will be attempted in the next chapters in this book.

Aside from the complex secondary aid which sex has given to the process of propagation among the higher forms of life, the most important fact which has always led to the conclusion that the two must have an elementary relation is the fact of fertilization.

We might easily understand ho...

In the following pages an attempt has been made to emphasize the value of Embryology and Comparative Anatomy in elucidating the difficult and often complicated morphological problems encountered in the study of human adult anatomy.

Moreover, in addition to the direct advance in the method and scope of anatomical teaching afforded by these aids, it is further hoped that the broader interpretation, both of structure and function, obtained by ontogenetic and phylogenetic comparison, will impar...