The Problems of Biology By John Maynard Smith

Molecular biology of the cell problems book

John Maynard Smith FRS was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War he took a second degree in genetics under the well known biologist J B S HaldaneConcentrating on problems that commonly perplex general readers and beginning students John Maynard Smith discusses fundamental issues in biology with emphasis on evolution development and cognition He provides a nontechnical account of molecular genetics which is the foundation ofmodern biology and explores such issues as heredity animal behavior the definition and origin of life the brain and how we know things artificial and natural intelligence and genetics The book is unique in presenting modern ideas in terms that can be understood without an in depth knowledgeof biology The Problems of BiologyA very concise little book introducing the uninitiated reader into the unsolved problems of biology unsolved when the book was published in 1986 OUP should commission a new book that looks into how many of these problems have been now solved and to what extent 0192192132 Bardzo dobra ksi ka chocia pewne zagadnienia w niej trzeba przefiltrowa przez pryzmat najnowszych odkry Niemniej warto zna dzie a wybitnych naukowc w ze swojej dziedziny. Book the problems of biology and biology Although some of the mentioned discoveries should be checked if they re still up to date the book is very good I think every biologist should know his her discipline classical author s works 0192192132