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How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answers to such simple yet profoundly important questions, and shows how their discoveries matter for our health and the health of the planet we depend upon. One of the most important revelations about the natural world is that everything is regulated - there are rules that regulate the amount of every molecule in our bodies and rules that govern the numbers of every animal and plant in the wild. And the most surprising revelation about the rules that regulate life at such different scales is that they are remarkably similar - there is a common underlying logic of life. Carroll recounts how our deep knowledge of the rules and logic of the human body has spurred the advent of revolutionary life-saving medicines, and makes the compelling case that it is now time to use the Serengeti Rules to heal our ailing planet.
Info autore
Sean B. Carroll forscht am Howard Hughes Medical Institute und ist Professor für Molekularbiologie und Genetik an der Universität von Wisconsin (USA). Er ist Fellow der American Association for the Advancement of Science, seit 2007 Mitglied der National Academy of Sciences und hat zahlreiche Preise erhalten. Das TIME-Magazine wählte ihn zu einem der vielversprechendsten Amerikaner.
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How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answ
Testo aggiuntivo
"Sean Carroll, a distinguished, erudite, and literate developmental biologist, has written a book about biological principles. Namely, the principles that control the behavior of every cell in our bodies, that determine how we, as individual organisms, respond to the outside world, and the principles that determine how ecosystems, large and small, respond to being perturbed. . . . If you read The Serengeti Rules, you will be better equipped to understand both the frailty and the resilience of the planet we share."---Bernard Wood, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture
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"In this remarkably engaging book, Carroll . . . persuasively argues that life at all levels of complexity is self-regulated, from the inner workings of cells to the larger relationships governing the Serengeti ecosystem. . . . Carroll superbly animates biological principles while providing important insights."--Publishers Weekly
