E.O. Wilson's Life on Earth Unit 4: Animal Physiology

E.O. Wilson's Life on Earth #4

by Edward O. Wilson, Morgan Ryan, Gael McGill

Designed to give students a deep understanding of the central topics of introductory biology, E. O. Wilson’s Life on Earth is a captivating iBooks Textbook presented as a seven-unit collection. This fourth unit explores the physiology of animals, shining a light on complex systems of interacting structures and organs. We examine how animals sense their environments, move around, process energy, regulate their internal systems, protect themselves, and reproduce. Each unit of the engagingly interactive E. O. Wilson’s Life on Earth features video, photo galleries, and Multi-Touch images and illustrations that inspire students to study, enjoy, and help protect the wonders of life on Earth.

Available exclusively as an Apple iBook.

Genres: Biology

241 pages, ebook

First published July 8, 2014

About the author

Edward Osborne Wilson, sometimes credited as E.O. Wilson, was an American biologist, researcher, theorist, and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, a branch of entomology. A two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Wilson is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism, and his secular-humanist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters. He was the Pellegrino University Research Professor in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent basic introduction to animal physiology.

[Fernando Fernandes · Rating 4 out of 5]

To read about life's core logic is like reviewing a ~4 billion years old code with no documentation, no tests, no design patterns, no standards or best practices. A product whose original writers are long gone. Maintenance and adding new features are hard as the solution as a whole is very fragile: even a small change into a single line of code can break production... And yet, here we are!

[Harris Silverman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful and serious introduction to biology. More of a text book than a popular narrative.