The title and intro (the opening lines of chapter 1) of this audiobook suggests that this is made for non-scientists as well. Life: The Science of Biology is engaging, active, and focused on teaching the skills that students need to master the majors biology course. The new 12th edition of Life: The Science of Biology continues to be engaging, active, and focused on teaching the skills that students need to master the majors biology course.

In the lab, he utilizes different yeast species to study spontaneous mutations using a combination of both mutation-accumulation and adaptation experiments. Read online (or offline) with all the highlighting and notetaking tools you need to be successful in this course. Life's potent combination of expertly crafted pedagogy and engagement makes this new edition the best resource yet for biology students. My other favorite parts were about Mendel and his Peas that he studied and how they differ from Darwin and his Evolutionary theory. New pedagogical features work in conjunction with powerful updates to the online suite of materials in LaunchPad to support the mission of Life by teaching students the skills and understanding of experimentation and data they need to succeed in introductory biology and ultimately in their future STEM careers.For those that want to know more about biology or want to dust off their knowledge in general, this lecture is great. He teaches courses in introductory biology, genetics, evolution, biological systematics, and biodiversity, and was awarded the University of Texas Civitatis Award in recognition of his service to the University.

MAY BERENBAUM, University of Illinois, USA is the Swanlund Professor and Head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. DAVID SADAVA, Claremont Colleges, USA is the Pritzker Family Foundation Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at the Keck Science Center of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps, three of The Claremont Colleges. Another first, the new edition of Life is printed on paper earning the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) label, the “gold standard” in green paper products. Some of his recent work on the effects of temperature on human performance is featured in the opener to Chapter 40. For the past 15 years, he has investigated multi-drug resistance in human small-cell lung carcinoma cells with a view to understanding and overcoming this clinical challenge.

First, just to let you know what perspective I am reviewing this from, I am a college student, and this text was used in my 200-level introductory biology course. From its first edition, Life: The Science of Biology has set the standard for experiment-based introductory biology texts.