Evolution, the Logic of Biology by Torday, John S.

Evolution, the Logic of Biology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781118729267)

Vendor: John S. Torday
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Format: Hardcover
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$160.95
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Evolution, the Logic of Biology by Torday, John S.

Evolution, the Logic of Biology

$160.95
Evolution, the Logic of Biology by Torday, John S.

Evolution, the Logic of Biology

$160.95
Format: Hardcover
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By focusing on the cellular mechanisms that underlie ontogeny, phylogeny and regeneration of complex physiologic traits, Evolution, the Logic of Biology demonstrates the use of homeostasis, the fundamental principle of physiology and medicine, as the unifying mechanism for evolution as all of biology. The homeostasis principle can be used to understand how environmental stressors have affected physiologic mechanisms to generate condition-specific novelty through cellular mechanisms.

Evolution, the Logic of Biology allows the reader to understand the vertebrate life-cycle as an intergenerational continuum in support of effective, on-going environmental adaptation. By understanding the principles of physiology from their fundamental unicellular origins, culminating in modern-day metazoans, the reader as student, researcher or practitioner will be encouraged to think in terms of the prevention of disease, rather than in the treatment of disease as the eradication of symptoms.

By tracing the ontogeny and phylogeny of this and other phenotypic homologies, one can perceive and understand how complex physiologic traits have mechanistically evolved from their simpler ancestral and developmental origins as cellular structures and functions, providing a logic of biology for the first time.

Evolution, the Logic of Biology will be an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers studying evolutionary development, medicine and biology, anthropology, comparative and developmental biology, genetics and genomics, and physiology.

Author: John S. Torday, Virender K. Rehan
ISBN-10: 1118729269
ISBN-13: 9781118729267
Publisher: Wiley
Language: English
Published: 08/07/2017
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.70w x 0.70d
By John S. Torday
By John S. Torday
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John S. Torday, PhD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Ob/Gyn, Director of The Henry L. Guenther Laboratory for Cell/Molecular Research, Director of Laboratory for Evolutionary Preventive Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA, USA and a member of the Faculty in the Evolutionary Medicine Program at the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Virender K. Rehan, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Torrance, CA, USA.

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