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| 1. |  | Title: The Boundaries of humanity: humans, animals, machines  Author: Sheehan, James J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | History and Philosophy of Science | Biology | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define humanity? These and other timely questions are ad . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Elephant seals: population ecology, behavior, and physiology Author: Le Boeuf, Burney J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Natural History | Biology | Ecology Publisher's Description: The largest of all seals, elephant seals rank among the most impressive of marine mammals. They are renowned for their spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the end of the nineteenth century when seal hunters nearly eliminated the entire northern species. No other vertebrate has come so close . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Justice and the human genome project Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Biology | Medicine Publisher's Description: The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body. If it works, and we are able, for instance, to identify markers for genetic diseases long before they develop, who will have the right to o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The molecular biology of plant cells Author: Smith, H. (Harry) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: Science | Botany | Biology Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: The strands of a life Author: Sinsheimer, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Biology | History and Philosophy of Science | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: From heading a campus of the largest public university in the nation to participating in the birth of molecular biology, Robert L. Sinsheimer's experiences have given him a unique vantage point from which to view the paths that science and education have taken in the twentieth century. This book tel . . . [more] Similar Items |