Essential Biology
- 2nd ed.
- Singapore Pearson Education 2004
- xxxi, 464 p. Includes index
It is an era of breathtaking progress in our understanding of life and a time when biology weaves into the fabric of our society as never before. Modern biology is remodeling medicine, agriculture, forensics, conservation science, anthropology, psychology, sociology, and even philosophy, including ethics. This is the best time ever to take a biology course!This is also the most challenging time to teach and learn biol-ogy. The same discovery explosion that makes biology so much fun also threatens to suffocate students under an avalanche of in-formation. With each of its many subfields bustling in research ac-tivity, biology grows larger every year, while the academic semester stays the same size. Something has to give