Biology: Life on Earth - Hardcover

Audesirk, Teresa; Audesirk, Gerald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0137926154 ISBN 13: 9780137926152

Publisher: Pearson, 1998

Synopsis

This best-selling text is the result of having established a strong dialogue with the biology community to meet the challenges of teaching undergraduates. Based on the dialogue, the authors have made biological concepts more relevant to students' lives, provided tools to actively engage students, and incorporated a chapter organizing system. Both WWW and CD-ROM icons have been placed in the chapters to connect the media supplements with the main text. Free Student CD-ROM.

About this title

About the Author:

Terry and Gerry Audesirk grew up in New Jersey, where they met as undergraduates. After marrying in 1970, they moved to California, where Terry earned her doctorate in marine ecology at the University of Southern California and Gerry earned his doctorate in neurobiology at the California Institute of Technology. As postdoctoral fellows at the University of Washington’s marine laboratories, they worked together on the neural bases of behavior, using a marine mollusk as a model system. The Audesirks joined the faculty of the University of Colorado, Denver, in 1982, where they taught introductory biology and neurobiology, and researched mechanisms of heavy metal toxicity and the effects of estrogen on cultured neurons until their retirement in 2006.

Terry and Gerry share a deep appreciation of nature and of the outdoors. After retirement, they moved to a ranch near Steamboat Springs, where they enjoy hiking, horseback riding, and snowshoeing. Long-time members of many conservation organizations, they do volunteer work with the Nature Conservatory. 

 

Bruce E. Byers, a midwesterner transplanted to the hills of western Massachusetts, is a professor in the biology department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has been a member of the faculty at UMass (where he also completed his doctoral degree) since 1993. Bruce teaches courses in ornithology and evolution.

            A lifelong fascination with birds ultimately led Bruce to scientific exploration of avian biology. His current research focuses on the behavioral ecology of birds, especially on the function and evolution of the vocal signals that birds use to communicate. The pursuit of vocalizations often takes Bruce outdoors, where he can be found before dawn, tape recorder in hand, awaiting the first songs of a new day.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0137926154
• ISBN 13: 9780137926152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 947