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Biology: How Life Works, Volume 1
Second Edition| ©2016 James Morris; Daniel Hartl; Andrew Knoll; Robert Lue; Melissa Michael; Andrew Berry; Andrew Biewener; Brian Farrell; N. Michele Holbrook
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Biology: How Life Works was written in response to recent and exciting changes in biology, education, and technology with the goal of helping students to think like biologists. The text, visual program, and assessments were developed together to provide students with the best resources to gain an understanding of modern biology.
Content is selected carefully, is integrated to illustrate the connections between concepts, and follows six themes that are crucial to biology: the scientific method, chemical and physical processes, cells, evolution, ecological interactions, and human impact. The second edition continues this approach, but includes expanded coverage of ecology, new in-class activities to assist instructors in active teaching, new pedagogical support for visual synthesis maps, and expanded and improved assessment.Features
- The scientific method is a deliberate way of asking and answering questions about the natural world.
- Life works according to fundamental principles of chemistry and physics.
- The fundamental unit of life is the cell.
- Evolution explains the features that organisms share and those that set them apart.
- Organisms interact with one another and with their physical environment, shaping ecological systems that sustain life.
- In the 21st century, humans have become major agents in ecology and evolution.
New to This Edition
Expanded ecology coverage on physical processes and global ecology provides additional emphasis on ecological concepts, while ensuring that content is integrated into the larger theme of evolution.Lead Author Melissa Michael guides the assessment team in refining and expanding our collection of thoughtful, well-curated assessment questions. Dr. Michael’s role ensures a tight alignment between the assessment and the media and text. Visual Synthesis Figures and Online Maps on Cellular Communities, Viruses, and the Flow of Matter and Energy through Ecosystems allow students to explore connections between concepts through dynamic and interactive visualizations. A Rich Collection of In-class Activities provides active learning materials for instructors to use in a variety of settings. Improved LaunchPad functionality makes it easier to search and filter within our expansive collection of assessment questions.Biology: How Life Works, Volume 1
Second Edition| ©2016
James Morris; Daniel Hartl; Andrew Knoll; Robert Lue; Melissa Michael; Andrew Berry; Andrew Biewener; Brian Farrell; N. Michele Holbrook
Biology: How Life Works, Volume 1
Second Edition| 2016
James Morris; Daniel Hartl; Andrew Knoll; Robert Lue; Melissa Michael; Andrew Berry; Andrew Biewener; Brian Farrell; N. Michele Holbrook
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Biology: How Life Works, Volume 1
Second Edition| 2016
James Morris; Daniel Hartl; Andrew Knoll; Robert Lue; Melissa Michael; Andrew Berry; Andrew Biewener; Brian Farrell; N. Michele Holbrook
Authors
James Morris
James Morris is Professor of Biology at Brandeis University. He teaches a wide variety of courses for majors and non-majors, including introductory biology, evolution, genetics and genomics, epigenetics, comparative vertebrate anatomy, and a first-year seminar on Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards from Brandeis and Harvard. His research focuses on epigenetics. He currently pursues this research with undergraduates to give them the opportunity to do genuine, laboratory-based research. Dr. Morris received a PhD in genetics from Harvard University and an MD from Harvard Medical School. He was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University and a National Academies Education Fellow and Mentor in the Life Sciences. He is also a reader for the AP® Biology exam and an author of Biology for the AP® Course.
Daniel Hartl
Daniel L. Hartl is Higgins Professor of Biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He has taught highly popular courses in genetics and evolution at both the introductory and advanced levels. His lab studies molecular evolutionary genetics and population genetics and genomics. Dr. Hartl has been awarded the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal from the Genetics Society of America, the Samuel Weiner Outstanding Scholar Award, and the Gold Medal of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples, Italy. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as President of the Genetics Society of America and President of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. Dr. Hartl’s PhD is from the University of Wisconsin, and he did postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he served on the faculties of the University of Minnesota, Purdue University, and Washington University Medical School. In addition to publishing more than 450 scientific articles, Dr. Hartl has authored or coauthored 35 books.
Andrew Knoll
Andrew H. Knoll is Fisher Research Professor of Natural History in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is also Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and taught introductory courses for many years in both departments. Dr. Knoll’s research focuses on the early evolution of life, Earth dynamic environmental history, and the interconnections between the two. He has also worked extensively on the early evolution of animals, mass extinction, and plant evolution, and he served on the science team for NASA’s MER mission to Mars. Dr. Knoll received the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science for Life on a Young Planet. In 2018, he was awarded the International Prize for Biology and in 2022, he received the prestigious Crafoord Prize in Geosciences for his research on Earth’s early history. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the Royal Society of London. Dr. Knoll received his PhD from Harvard University and taught at Oberlin College before returning to Harvard.
Robert Lue
Robert Lue was Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University and the Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Dr. Lue had a longstanding commitment to interdisciplinary teaching and research and chaired the faculty committee that developed the first integrated science foundation in the country to serve science majors as well as pre-medical students. The founding director of Life Sciences Education at Harvard, Dr. Lue led a complete redesign of the introductory curriculum, redefining how the university can more effectively foster new generations of scientists as well as science-literate citizens. Dr. Lue also developed award-winning multimedia, including the animation The Inner Life of the Cell. He coauthored undergraduate biology textbooks and chaired education conferences on college biology for the National Academies and the National Science Foundation and on diversity in science for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of Health. In 2012, Dr. Lue’s extensive work on using technology to enhance learning took a new direction when he became faculty director of university-wide online education initiative HarvardX. Dr. Lue earned his PhD from Harvard University.
Melissa Michael
Melissa Michael is Associate Director for Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A cell biologist, Dr. Michael primarily focuses on the continuing development of the School’s undergraduate and graduate curricula. Her research focuses on the ways in which formative assessment strategies affect student learning outcomes in large-enrollment courses. She leads a new initiative to bring inclusive teaching practices to STEM courses. A member of the leadership for Mobile Summer Institutes for Scientific Teaching, she is now serving as an officer on the inaugural Executive Committee for the National Institute on Scientific Teaching.
Andrew Berry
Andrew Biewener
Brian Farrell
Brian D. Farrell is the Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America, a faculty member in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Curator in Entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He is an authority on coevolution between insects and plants and a specialist on the biology of beetles. He teaches the large introductory course in organismic biology and a Freshmen Seminar in acoustic biology, and is interested in the impact of biophilia on human health. In 2011–2012, he was a Fulbright Scholar to the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Dr. Farrell received a BA in Zoology and Botany from the University of Vermont and MS and PhD from the University of Maryland.
N. Michele Holbrook
N. Michele Holbrook is Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, Head Tutor in Harvard’s undergraduate program in Environmental Policy and Public Policy, and Director of the Harvard Forest. She teaches introductory and advanced courses on plant biology and plant physiology, as well as courses on trees, forests, and climate change. Her research focuses on the physics and physiology of vascular transport in plants. Dr. Holbrook received her PhD from Stanford University.
Biology: How Life Works, Volume 1
Second Edition| 2016
James Morris; Daniel Hartl; Andrew Knoll; Robert Lue; Melissa Michael; Andrew Berry; Andrew Biewener; Brian Farrell; N. Michele Holbrook
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