Books from Sinauer Associates Incorporated
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Neuroscience
By Dale PurvesThis classic textbook guides students through the challenges and excitement of the rapidly changing field of neuroscience.
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Inferring Phylogenies
By Joseph FelsensteinYet no book has summarized this work until now. Inferring Phylogenies explains clearly the assumptions and logic of making inferences about phylogenies, and using them to make inferences about evolutionary processes.
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From Neuron to Brain
By John G. Nicholls, David A. Brown, A. Robert MartinThe fifth edition of From Neuron and Brain has been thoroughly rewritten, with new chapters added, to provide a readable, up-to-date book for use in undergraduate, graduate, and medical school courses in neuroscience.
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Sensation & Perception
By Susan J. Lederman, Jeremy M. Wolfe, Keith R. KluenderBy integrating current findings alongside the basics, the authors impart to students that these are active areas of research.
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Sylvius Vg: Visual Glossary of Human Neuroanatomy
By Leonard E. White, Andrew C. Mace, S. Mark WilliamsSylviusVG: Visual Glossary of Human Neuroanatomy is an interactive CD reference guide to the structure of the human central nervous system. Users can quickly search for a neuroanatomical structure or...
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SylviusPRO: 3D Dissector and Atlas of the Human Central Nervous System
By Leonard E. White, S. Mark Williams, A. C. MaceSylviusPRO is a unique 3D dissector and digital atlas of the human central nervous system. As compared to its predecessor, Sylvius 2.0, SylviusPRO offers the user significantly more neuroanatomical content...
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A Primer of Ecological Statistics
By Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. GotelliThe book emphasizes a general introduction to probability theory and provides a detailed discussion of specific designs and analyses that are typically encountered in ecology and environmental science.
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Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution
By Scott F. Gilbert, David EpelIt looks at examples where the environment provides expected cues for normal development and where the organism develops improperly without such cues.
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Essentials of Conservation Biology
By Richard B. PrimackCombining theory and research and with examples from current literature, the book explain the links between conservation biology and other fields such as ecology, climate change, environmental economics, sustainable development and more.
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Invertebrates
By Richard C. Brusca, Gary J. BruscaSurveys the thirty-four phyla of animal invertebrates, describing the organic systems, body plans, and phylogeny of the organisms.
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Behavioral Neurobiology: The Cellular Organization of Natural Behavior
By Thomas J. CarewThe pedagogical premise of the book is that general insights into the neuronal organization of behavior can be gained by examining neural solutions that have evolved in animals to solve problems encountered in their particular environmental ...
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Animal Physiology
By Margaret Anderson, Richard W. Hill, Gordon A. WyseAnimal Physiology presents all the branches of modern animal physiology with a strong emphasis on integration among physiological disciplines, ecology, and evolutionary biology.
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Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits
By Bruce Walsh, Michael LynchThe book reflects the recent influx of quantitative-genetic thinking into evolutionary biology and includes the latest techniques for QTL (quantitative-trait loci) analysis.
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Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach
By Walter S. JuddGeared toward undergraduate students, this textbook incorporates recent developments and data (such as DNA sequences) and incorporates phylogenetic principles throughout--from the explanation of phylogenetic methods and principles to the ...
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Biogeography
By James H. Brown, Robert J. Whittaker, Mark V. LomolinoThe Fourth Edition builds on the strengths of previous ones, illustrating ideas with examples of plants and animals across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
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A Primer of Population Genetics
By Daniel L. HartlThis book is for undergraduate students, graduate students and professionals in biology and other sciences who require a concise but comprehensive introduction to population genetics.
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Speciation
By Jerry A. Coyne, H. Allen OrrAlthough several excellent symposium volumes have recently appeared, these collections do not provide a unified, critical, and up-to-date overview of the field. Speciation is designed to fill this gap.
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Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Introduction to Marine Science
By David W. TownsendThis new book overcomes that imbalance, bringing these disparate marine science text formats closer together, giving them more equal weight, and introducing more effectively the physical sciences by showing students with everyday examples ...
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Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science
By Massimo PigliucciDenying Evolution aims at taking a fresh look at the evolution-creation controversy, dividing the blame equally between creationists and scientists: the former for subscribing to various forms of anti-intellectualism, the latter for ...
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Sensation & Perception
By Jeremy M. Wolfe, Keith R. Kluender, Dennis M. LeviIt is an introductory text that provides comprehensive descriptions of vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste. The text is student-friendly with useful anecdotes and full-colour illustrations throughout.