Biology
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Alison Kalett
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Hallie Schaeffer
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Sydney Carroll
Textbook Editor
The biology list publishes books on topics that range across the life sciences. It has historic and core strengths in ecology, evolutionary biology, and behavioral biology alongside emerging strengths in biological anthropology, microbiome science, global change biology, and computational and mathematical biology. We publish across genres, from monographs and textbooks to works of popular science that introduce nonexperts to exciting, relevant ideas in biology.
Whenever possible, the list foregrounds books that take a broad and integrative approach and that cross traditional divides, such as those between theory and empiricism, molecular and organismal topics, and biology and other fields.
New & Noteworthy
Featured Audiobooks
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Ideas
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The night humans learned to sleep together
Humans became one of the most successful species on Earth while doing something especially odd: we appear to sleep less than we should. Like鈥 lot less.
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The Light Between Apple Trees
Priyanka Kumar takes us on a dazzling and transformative journey to rediscover apples, unearthing a rich and complex history while illuminating how we can reimagine our relationship with nature.
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The human (or bat, or abalone) experience
In 1974, philosopher Thomas Nagel published a now-famous paper titled 鈥淲hat is it Like to be a Bat?鈥�. By imagining how another species experiences the world, Nagel hoped to explore the the notion of consciousness itself.
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Novel innovations and new spaces of possibility
In 1901 Greek fishermen diving for sponges discovered a bronze device, long encrusted with sea life, buried in the wreck of an ancient Greek boat. This mechanism is far too sophisticated not to have been preceded by more primitive devices.
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Everything Evolves
Mark Vellend describes how all observable phenomena in the universe can be understood through two sciences. The first is physics. The second is the science of evolvable systems.
