《癌生物学》将近30年来癌生物学的最新研究成果系统而全面地进行了论述，采用通过介绍经典实验的方式使读者更深入了解和体会现代癌症生物学涉及的基本概念，不仅在结构和内容上更易使本科生或研究生接受，而且还提供了多种教学功能，对协助教师教学与学习也大有裨益。《癌生物学》还包括许多对现代生物医学的研究探索，帮助读者来提高他们的分析能力，理解复杂的生物过程。灵活的版式设计及丰富的图片使《癌生物学》更具吸引力。

In a Darwinian world, religious behavior - just like other behaviors - is likely to have undergone a process of natural selection in which it was rewarded in the evolutionary currency of reproductive success. This book aims to provide a better understanding of the social scenarios in which selection pressure led to religious practices becoming an evolved human trait, i.e. an adaptive answer to the conditions of living and surviving that prevailed among our prehistoric ancestors. This aim is pursued by a team of expert authors from a range of disciplines. Their contributions examine the relevant physiological, emotional, cognitive and social processes. The resulting understanding of the functional interplay of these processes gives valuable insights into the biological roots and benefits of religion.

生物心理学是研究行为生物基础的一门科学，它试图从生物学和演化学的角度对感知觉、认知和行为进行解释。《生物心理学(第10版)》取材广泛，综合了比较心理学、生理心理学、心理药物学、神经心理学以及认知神经科学等诸多学科的最新研究成果，详细探讨了大脑与神经系统的解剖、感知觉加工、运动控制、动机情绪、精神障碍、学习与记忆、语言和认知等方面的理论及观点，着重解释了行为及心理现象背后的神经过程和神经机制。
全书内容有趣、文字浅显易懂；书中的插图色彩鲜艳，大小适中，标识清晰。《生物心理学(第10版)》适合心理学、生物学、认知神经科学等学科的广大师生和研究者使用。

《理解生物信息学》是一本集生物信息学专业参考书和教材于一体的书，共分为7部分：基础知识、序列联配、进化过程、基因组特征、二级结构、蛋白质三级结构、细胞和组织，以及附录和字符表等。每部分由不同章节构成，大多数章节可以被归为应用章节或理论章节。因此在每部分开始时，都有应用章节，描述了特定研究领域较实用的方面。理论章节则紧随其后，解释了其科学、理论基础以及在已有应用中所使用的技术。《理解生物信息学》还提供了思维导图、流程图、扩展阅读等其他书不常见的内容，以供读者能够在每一章、每一节开始时对整体内容有所把握，并能够了解更多扩展知识、发展技能的参考文献。
《理解生物信息学》适合分子生物学、生物信息学专业及生物医学领域的师生和研究者参考使用。

The synchronized flashing of fireflies at night. The spiraling patterns of an aggregating slime mold. The anastomosing network of army-ant trails. The coordinated movements of a school of fish. Researchers are finding in such patterns - phenomena that have fascinated naturalists for centuries - a fertile new approach to understanding biological systems: the study of self-organization. This book, a primer on self-organization in biological systems for students and other enthusiasts, introduces readers to the basic concepts and tools for studying self-organization and then examines numerous examples of self-organization in the natural world. Self-organization refers to diverse pattern formation processes in the physical and biological world, from sand grains assembling into rippled dunes to cells combining to create highly structured tissues to individual insects working to create sophisticated societies. What these diverse systems hold in common is the proximate means by which they acquire order and structure. In self-organizing systems, pattern at the global level emerges solely from interactions among lower-level components. Remarkably, even very complex structures result from the iteration of surprisingly simple behaviors performed by individuals relying on only local information. This striking conclusion suggests important lines of inquiry: to what degree is environmental rather than individual complexity responsible for group complexity? To what extent have widely differing organisms adopted similar, convergent strategies of pattern formation? How, specifically, has natural selection determined the rules governing interactions within biological systems? Broad in scope, thorough yet accessible, this book is a self-contained introduction to self-organization and complexity in biology - a field of study at the forefront of life sciences research.

Dealing with dynamics of processes that repeat themselves regularly, this revised and updated edition extends the thread from 1980 to the present day, concentrating on areas of interest where there will be much activity in the future. This involves going through spatial biochemical, electrophysiological, and organismic dynamical systems and patterns that were discovered by pursuing the theme of phase singularities introduced in the original book. In particular, the work on excitability in cell membranes will be thoroughly updated as will the references throughout the book.

《学习和记忆机制(原著第2版)(导读版•英文版)》迄今为止，人类遇到的最复杂莫测的生物学过程无疑是人类自身的认知与记忆。《学习和记忆机制(原著第2版)(导读版)》作者系统地介绍了学习和记忆的细胞和分子机制，主要集中在介绍学习和记忆的动物实验研究结果，将复杂的生物化学问题与记忆结合起来。《学习和记忆机制(原著第2版)(导读版•英文版)》适合作为心理学、脑科学、神经生物学等专业高年级本科生和一、二年级研究生的课程用书，以及从事该领域研究人员的参考书。

约翰·埃克尔斯爵士，一位卓著的科学家和诺贝尔奖获得者，尽其整个科学生涯专注于哺乳动物脑的研究。在这本书里，他融会了包括考古学、比较神经解剖学、脑生理学、语言学、古文学和哲学在内的多学科研究成果，来讲述我们人类由来的故事。这不仅是我们作为古猿进化产物的故事，而且也是具备反思意识的人性之人的故事。这应该是世界上最神奇的故事。这是我们的故事。约翰·埃克尔斯爵士的挚友和合作者、著名哲学家卡尔·波普尔爵士在为本书所写的序言里认为这是一部独一无二的佳作，是一项与达尔文《人类的由来》同工异曲又推陈出新的非凡成就。
埃克尔斯首先讲述了进化论的遗传基础，然后对古猿进化到人的主要特征作了形象生动的描述。早在360万年前，尽管南方古猿的脑容量还很小，但其娴熟的二足行走技能已令人惊叹不已。他推测，随后的能人更是以其大为增长了的脑容量成为人类语言的始作俑者。埃克尔斯向我们展示了我们古猿先祖的意识是怎样随其脑的增长而逐渐优化的。尼安德特人已表现出了原始的灵性，他们的葬礼和同情心点燃了自我意识的曙光。人猿进化中新近产生的新皮层脑区——新新皮层_超凡脱俗的特征成为解开自我意识之谜的关键。而每一个自我的独特性导致了灵魂及其创生的宗教观念。

《失语症》除描述汉语失语症的各种症状和不同类型失语症的临床特点外，还增加了失语法，阿尔茨海默病患者的语言障碍和原发性进行性失语内容，以及失语症患者的神经影像学、电生理学和心理障碍及其治疗。对双语失语症包括检查方法作了较多的介绍。在语言和脑的关系上，主要讨论大脑语言优势侧和对侧半球在语言上的作用。对语言康复则作了详细的描述。《失语症》还简单介绍了记忆障碍、疏忽症、空间性障碍、失用症和持续症等。详细介绍了汉语失语症成套测验（ABC）、并且将检查用的表和图附于书后。《失语症》适于临床工作者检查和研究失语患者时应用；也适于对失语症有兴趣的心理学和语言学工作者参考。

在这本书里，你可以随着著名灵长类学家达里奥·马埃斯特里皮埃里的指引，从经济学和社会生物学的角度重新审视人类的社会行为。这些“猿猴的把戏”不是横空出世，不是空中楼阁，而是跟我们的动物性有着千丝万缕的联系。为什么舌吻成了浪漫的示爱方式？要知道，这是一种身体侵略行为，还容易传播疾病。为什么老板很长时间才给你回邮件，而你早已经等得花儿都谢了？哪怕在你发了加急邮件时，情况也从未改善。为什么跟陌生人搭乘电梯时，你会觉得不自在？为什么没人推荐，在意大利军队中服役几乎就是死路一条？答案就在这本书里。除了这些，还有很多有趣的内容，等着你来一睹为快。

《上帝的迷思》是英国牛津大学教授、生物学家兼无神论者理查德·道金斯在继他的一系列科普大作后推出的又一力作。书中剖析了宗教的由来及对人类思想的禁锢和欺骗，作者认为“上帝假设”的集体非理性信仰不仅是严重背叛理智，而且导致了不宽容，压迫、固执、自大、虐待儿童、同性恋恐惧等现象，认为宗教是人类进化史的思想寄生虫。他大力提倡人们提升自我意识，亦即形成这样的意识，成为无神论者是一种现实的志向，并且是一种勇敢和值得离度赞赏的志向，从而最终成为一名幸福、安宁、有道德、充满理智的无神论者。

《进化动力学:探索生命的方程》一书阐释了生命进化所遵循的数学原理。进化动力学主要涉及复制、突变、选择、随机漂变和空间运动等过程。《进化动力学:探索生命的方程》结合生物学理论和数学语言对这些问题进行了论述。开篇简要介绍了与进化相关的基本概念、种群动力学基本模型以及准种理论；然后介绍进化动力学基本研究方法及其应用，分别就合作行为、HIV、病原体、癌症以及人类语言的进化机制展开讨论，其中所涉及的研究方法主要有进化博弈理论、囚徒困境模型、进化图论、网络博弈等。
《进化动力学:探索生命的方程》语言简洁有力，论述生动有趣。虽然书中涉及大量的数学方法，但是，读者只需具备一定的数学基础，就不会感到晦涩枯燥。该书适合于具有生物学、数学以及具有其他相关学科背景的读者阅读。

作品描写了世世代代生活在加拿大北部的一支因纽特人——伊哈尔缪特人。1946年，莫厄特访问他们时，只剩下岌岌可危的40个人，而他们还在为生存而苦苦挣扎。作者深刻地揭示出，这些靠驯鹿生存的“鹿之民”，是怎样因为殖民贸易的侵入和惟利是图的商人，而失去了生存的依托和平衡，走向了即将绝灭的道路。

This introductory text offers a clear exposition of the algorithmic principles driving advances in bioinformatics. Accessible to students in both biology and computer science, it strikes a unique balance between rigorous mathematics and practical techniques, emphasizing the ideas underlying algorithms rather than offering a collection of apparently unrelated problems.The book introduces biological and algorithmic ideas together, linking issues in computer science to biology and thus capturing the interest of students in both subjects. It demonstrates that relatively few design techniques can be used to solve a large number of practical problems in biology, and presents this material intuitively.An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms is one of the first books on bioinformatics that can be used by students at an undergraduate level. It includes a dual table of contents, organized by algorithmic idea and biological idea; discussions of biologically relevant problems, including a detailed problem formulation and one or more solutions for each; and brief biographical sketches of leading figures in the field. These interesting vignettes offer students a glimpse of the inspirations and motivations for real work in bioinformatics, making the concepts presented in the text more concrete and the techniques more approachable.PowerPoint presentations, practical bioinformatics problems, sample code, diagrams, demonstrations, and other materials can be found at the Author's website.

A manifesto for and an example of a new kind of history, a biological history, and not just of the prehistoric era Scientists have long believed that the 'great leap forward' that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked the end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this stunning account of our evolutionary history, top scholars Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending reject this conventional wisdom and reveal that the human species has undergone a storm of genetic change much more recently. Human evolution in fact accelerated after civilisation arose, they contend, and these ongoing changes have played a pivotal role in human history. They argue that biology explains the expansion of the Indo-Europeans, the European conquest of the Americas, and European Jews' rise to intellectual prominence. In each of these cases, the key was recent genetic change: adult milk tolerance in the early Indo-Europeans that allowed for a new way of life, increased disease resistance among the Europeans settling America, and new versions of neurological genes among European Jews. Ranging across subjects as diverse as human domestication, Neanderthal hybridization, and IQ tests, Cochran and Harpending's analysis demonstrates convincingly that human genetics have changed and can continue to change much more rapidly than scientists have previously believed. A provocative and fascinating look at human evolution, "The 10,000 Year Explosion" reveals the ongoing interplay between culture and biology in the making of the human race.

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《现代动物分类学导论》正如人类社会在各方面的进步一样，科学技术各领域在近20年来所呈现出的面貌是加速发展而不只是发展，动物分类学也是如此。虽然动物分类工作者并未普遍认为这个领域近年来发生了革命性的变化，但是各个方向上不同程度进展的总和却是惊人的。如何使初学者能够更快地了解动物分类学的全貌与现状，并有效率地开展工作，这是一个挑战。《现代动物分类学导论》以“新技术为分类学所用”为原则，整理了动物分类学的传统内容，系统性地介绍了分子系统学等新技术方面的基本内容，同时非常重视这两部分内容之间的联系，并对一些重点内容展开论述。
《现代动物分类学导论》分为四个部分。第一个部分讲动物分类学的经典内容，以学科简史为第一章，以学科方法方面的进展为末章，由此引出第二部分与第三部分；第二部分讲动物分类学在系统发育方面的研究如何利用分子生物学方法开展工作；第三部分讲动物分类学在物种鉴定与物种分布方面的研究如何利用分子生物学方法开展工作；第四部分为拓展性的外延内容，简介分子钟、中性论、进化发育在动物分类学未来发展中可能发挥更重要的作用。
《现代动物分类学导论》可作为动物学相关专业的研究生和生物科学高年级本科生以及相关领域工作者的参考书。

Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But there is much more to them than that. Mitochondria have their own DNA, with their own small collection of genes, separate from those in the cell nucleus. It is thought that they were once bacteria living independent lives. Their enslavement within the larger cell was a turning point in the evolution of life, enabling the development of complex organisms and, closely related, the origin of two sexes. Unlike the DNA in the nucleus, mitochondrial DNA is passed down exclusively (or almost exclusively) via the female line. That's why it has been used by some researchers to trace human ancestry daughter-to-mother, to 'Mitochondrial Eve'. Mitochondria give us important information about our evolutionary history. And that's not all. Mitochondrial genes mutate much faster than those in the nucleus because of the free radicals produced in their energy-generating role.This high mutation rate lies behind our ageing and certain congenital diseases. The latest research suggests that mitochondria play a key role in degenerative diseases such as cancer, through their involvement in precipitating cell suicide. Mitochondria, then, are pivotal in power, sex, and suicide. In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Nick Lane brings together the latest research findings in this exciting field to show how our growing understanding of mitochondria is shedding light on how complex life evolved, why sex arose (why don't we just bud?), and why we age and die. This understanding is of fundamental importance, both in understanding how we and all other complex life came to be, but also in order to be able to control our own illnesses, and delay our degeneration and death. 'An extraordinary account of groundbreaking modern science...The book abounds with interesting and important ideas.' Mark Ridley, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford