Biology - Hardcover

Raven, Peter; Johnson, George; Singer, Susan; Losos, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0072921641 ISBN 13: 9780072921649

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2004

Synopsis

BIOLOGY is an authoritative majors textbook with evolution as a unifying theme. In revising the text, McGraw-Hill has consulted extensively with previous users, noted experts and professors in the field. It is distinguished from other texts by its strong emphasis on natural selection and the evolutionary process that explains biodiversity.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter H. Raven, Ph.D., is director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Engelmann professor of botany at Washington University at St. Louis. He oversees the garden's internationally recognized research program in tropical botany--one of the world's most active in the study and conservation of imperiled tropical habitats. Raven's botanical research and work in the area of tropical conservation have earned him numerous honors and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship. He has written 17 textbooks and more than 400 articles, and he is a member of th National Academy of Science and the National Research Council.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0072921641
• ISBN 13: 9780072921649
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1238