50 Ideias de biologia que você precisa conhecer

by J.V. Chamary, Petê Rissatti (Translator)

O guia definitivo para as questões essenciais da biologia e do estudo da vida!

Por que as espécies evoluem? Como certas características passam de uma geração para outra? Todos os organismos são feitos de células? O que nos torna humanos? Escrito pelo cientista e jornalista premiado J.V. Chamary, 50 ideias de biologia que você precisa conhecer é o guia definitivo para essas e outras questões essenciais da biologia explicadas em 50 artigos curtos e envolventes que cobrem desde as teorias clássicas até as pesquisas mais recentes.

Dos mistérios do sexo e do sono até a seleção natural, a imunidade e a genética, este livro abrirá os seus olhos para os processos vitais que garantem a vida na Terra, incluindo como os genes controlam o crescimento e o comportamento dos seres vivos, como o corpo se desenvolve a partir de uma única célula e como as forças ambientais criam a diversidade de espécies através da evolução.

Por meio de conceitos-chave explicados em termos simples e com a ajuda de diagramas e linhas do tempo que mostram as principais descobertas científicas no seu contexto histórico, o mais novo livro da premiada coleção 50 ideias proporciona um panorama completo de um dos assuntos mais fascinantes, que vem assombrando cientistas ao longo dos séculos: o estudo da vida.

Você encontrará conceitos como:

Evolução | Genética | Imunidade | Sexo | Vírus | Células-tronco | Origem da vida | Ecossistemas | Seleção natural | Hereditariedade

Genres: Nonfiction

438 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 21, 2019

Reviews

[Fraser McClennan · Rating 3 out of 5]

For a book that promises to distill key biological ideas into succinct essays for the general reader, I found this book incredibly difficult to access. I'm pretty sure I absorbed less than a third of the first half, although found the second half better. For me this has to be a significant failing, and would put off most people. In hindsight I should have abandoned it. The saving grace was the final third, which focuses on natural selection, intelligence, ecosystems, and cooperation amongst others, where I learned that I'm much more motivated by macro as opposed to microbiology. Other than that insight this book was a real slog.

[Chris Seltzer · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is better than most books in the series in that I do think most of the topics included would be interesting to a general audience and lots of main concepts from the subject are covered. I would have replaced the more niche topics like Endosymbiosis and Embryogenesis with topics like Plant Biology given their importance to life on Earth or Microbiology given how critical bacteria, archaea, fungi, and protists are.

I would have liked to have seen more on Anatomy, Physiology, and Biochemistry, given how relevant nutrition and health are to most people. Probably more important than a chapter on the double helix, coloration, or junk DNA.

They touch on synthetic biology but they could have gone much deeper with topics like genetic engineering, CRISPR, and genomics given how relevant those technologies are becoming.

The black and white format of the book doesn't do it any favors, making the diagrams hard to understand in some cases.

It's fine for what it is, you'd definitely get a lot out of reading it if you're unfamiliar with the subject but there are much better introductions to biology out there.

[Davy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very accessible refresher/introduction course to a lot (well, 50, obviously) of biology ideas.
Each chapter/topic only spans 4 pages, so it's very easy to say you'll read one or two topics a day and stick to that schedule.
The downside is of course that each and every one of those topics deserve a lot more than 4 pages. Nonetheless, the key points of each topic are covered and now, when my kids come home with biology homework, I won't be providing answers that are 25 years out of date.

[Mei · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good if u want some pleasure reading nonfiction

[John Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was a good introduction to numerous important ideas in the field of biology. I cannot give the book higher than a three-star rating due to the abundance of spelling errors and grammatical mistakes in the book, I noticed six mistakes during my reading of the book which is quite distracting and lead to a few sentences not making sense

[Wee Jiawei · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good introduction to biology. Concised and interesting.

[Electric-guitar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this book. The most interesting ideas was "The Red Queen", "Immunity", "Extinction" and "Synthetic Biology".

[Steph Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good read overall.