The Biology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

Big Ideas Simply Explained

by D.K. Publishing

You don't have to be a scientist to find this beginners biology book fascinating!

What is life? Why do bees dance? How do animals know their mothers? Who discovered germs? Discover the living world, how it interacts with the environment, and stand in awe of the most interesting biology facts, theories, and discoveries.

The Biology Book is written in plain English making complex biological ideas accessible to everyone! Whether you're a student or a science enthusiast, you'll find these pages exciting and educational because

- Combines creative typography, graphics, and accessible text to explore the most famous and important ideas in biology and the people behind them
- Includes a directory section for easy localisation
- Profiles more than 95 ideas and events key to the development of biology and the life sciences, with thought-provoking graphics throughout that demystify the central concepts behind each idea
- Features insightful and inspiring quotes from leading biologists and scientists, such as 2020 Nobel Laureates, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, as well as thinkers in other fields

Over the last few centuries, humans have been enamoured by the world around us. Trace the history of scientific thought and meet the scientists who shaped the natural sciences, such as Carl Linnaeus, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Charles Darwin, and Gregor Mendel. From the mechanics of plants, animals, and the human body; to DNA and genetic inheritance; and the development of vaccines, explore the crucial discoveries to understand how our world works.

The Biology Book uncovers over 95 key ideas in the field of biology. Step by step flowcharts, diagrams and accessible text will help demystify complex biological processes and help you enhance your understanding. This biology book also discusses current trends such as cloning, neuroscience, human evolution, and gene editing. Whether you're new to the subject, a budding scientist or keen to keep up with and understand current ethical and scientific debates, The Biology Book is for you.

Complete the Series

DK Books has published a series of books that cover educational topics such as religion, astronomy, art, science, maths, and more. These books simplify complex ideas, making it easy to understand - and learning fun. Look out for titles such as The History Book , The Astronomy Book , and The Science Book .

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Biology, Reference, History, Nature, Education

336 pages, Hardcover

Published June 24, 2021

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Alicia Bayer · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a very text-heavy light primer on all kinds of biology. It's more about the history of biology than the most recent knowledge that we have today. There are many photos and illustrations and it's broken down into very small sections on a large number of topics. I found these kind of lacking as a science nerd, as they're presented in rather black-and-white, outdated ways with far more focus on what someone discovered 200 years ago than what we are just starting to discover. It often oversimplifies and leaves out important information, so it's definitely a "dip your toes" kind of book rather than a full text. I was considering it for my teenage sons for part of their homeschool biology curriculum but I do not feel that it would be a good fit for that. It seems better suited for adults because of the wordiness, though you really need additional materials to get the full picture of most topics covered. It's still a very interesting and visually appealing book that many are likely to find educational.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

[Cary Morton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received a copy of this book directly from the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review.

This book wasn't exactly what I was expecting. The book does a good job of presenting a huge amount of information on Biology and its study. If you have more than a casual interest in the topic but don't want to slog through scientific papers, then this book would be an excellent fit for you.

Although the book is toted as explaining big biology concepts simply, I don't think that description is entirely accurate. This isn't a beginner book - it's more of a mid-range read. It isn't something I'd recommend to a younger reader, but I do think it's an excellent source of information, so I'd recommend it to someone who wants to learn more about biology, past what you'd find in the average textbook.

[Jokim Toon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m not blessed with the best long-term memory hardware, so I like to periodically take a refresher course, even on basic topics. The DK books serve well as such “refreshers.” Clear. Concise. Streamlined like the sand skimming across our windy beach here in the Northwest of Ireland.

But this is also their shortcoming. For instance, it summarized Alfred Russel Wallace’s life like this: “As well as being an exceptional naturalist, Wallace was a keen environmentalist, social reformer, and advocate of women’s rights and land reform.” A more accurate summary would have been something like this: “As well as being an exceptional naturalist, Wallace was a keen environmentalist, social reformer, vaccine critique, and advocate of women’s rights and land reform, and a staunch defender of phrenology.”

It’s remarkable, isn’t it, how the friction between a person’s intellectual greatness and their peculiarities—or, in hindsight, outright failures of judgment—tends to get smoothed over in popular depictions? Wallace, so often presented as Darwin’s shadowy double in the annals of natural selection, is a prime example of how certain aspects of a thinker’s legacy are foregrounded, while others are quietly swept aside. The polished narrative of Wallace the co-discoverer, the self-taught naturalist who climbed from working-class obscurity to stand on the shoulders of giants, is a far more palatable story than Wallace the believer in phrenology or Wallace the vaccine skeptic. A casual reader might well assume that someone brilliant enough to unravel the mechanisms of evolution would be immune to the intellectual seductions of what we now call pseudoscience. But of course, the human mind doesn’t work that way.

I think the way these omissions persist tells us something about the broader cultural project of popular science writing. Books like these often serve as introductions for a general audience—a distillation of essential ideas and achievements into something digestible. This necessitates a kind of flattening, a curation of narrative highlights. The great figures become heroes of progress, their complexities pared down, the strange or uncomfortable edges rounded off. Wallace becomes Darwin’s unlikely twin, standing shoulder-to-shoulder on the issue that matters most to the modern scientific worldview, rather than the man who devoted significant energy to defending phrenology, mesmerism, and various spiritualist phenomena. Such details are, perhaps, deemed distractions from the “main event,” or worse, embarrassing blemishes on an otherwise clean arc of genius.

But to read Wallace’s own writings—I recently perused his retrospective look at the 1800s, The Wonderful Century: Its Successes & Failures—is to be struck by the dissonance between his rigorous scientific work and what now seem to be his more credulous leanings. He not only entertained fringe theories but actively championed them, often with as much passion as he brought to evolutionary biology. Take phrenology: by the late 19th century, it was already falling into disrepute as a quackish science, yet Wallace remained convinced that the shape of one’s skull could reveal character and mental faculties. The man who charted biodiversity with such meticulous care somehow saw no contradiction in reducing human complexity to bumps on a head.

Similarly, his opposition to vaccination—what we might now call an “anti-waxer” stance—arose from his broader distrust of institutions and medical authority, aligning with his reformist tendencies. Wallace’s skepticism often stemmed from an earnest belief in the rights of the individual and a mistrust of what he viewed as exploitative or heavy-handed systems. His arguments against compulsory vaccination were, in his mind, of a piece with his advocacy for land reform and women’s rights—causes that put him ahead of his time in other respects.

This is the paradox of Wallace: the same mind capable of discerning evolutionary mechanisms in the tangled wilds of the Malay Archipelago was also capable of clinging to ideas that strike us today as irrational or unscientific. It reminds us that intellectual brilliance is not a uniform light but a patchwork of illumination and shadow. Wallace’s story is less about the clean triumph of reason than it is about the messy, often contradictory nature of human inquiry.

And yet, we might ask: why should this complexity be obscured, as The Biology Book does? Perhaps there’s a lurking discomfort in admitting that the “heroes” of science were not always as enlightened as we might wish. Popular science books like those of DK often treat figures like Wallace as emissaries of progress, their lives a straight path toward modern knowledge. Acknowledging Wallace’s devotion to phrenology or spiritualism complicates that neat image; it forces us to grapple with the uneven terrain of his intellect and the context of his time. This might be uncomfortable, but it also offers a richer, more truthful portrait—not just of Wallace, but of the scientific process itself. Science, after all, does not emerge fully formed from pure reason. It is an ongoing, often fumbling effort to separate insight from illusion.

This disparity between Wallace’s hagiography in popular books and his own writing reminds me of the way history and biography often act as filters. The judgments of posterity smooth out the contradictions, leaving us with simplified versions of complex figures. Wallace becomes a secondary hero of evolution, his eccentricities relegated to footnotes (if that). But the full, unfiltered Wallace is more fascinating: a man who could simultaneously pioneer natural selection and defend the virtues of phrenological maps; who could challenge entrenched authority on social and environmental issues while making dubious claims about vaccination. He was not, as popular science books might wish, a man wholly of the future. He was also profoundly a man of his own time—his genius and his errors inseparably bound.

In fact, what struck me in The Wonderful Century was that he tried to be just as careful a thinker about phrenology and vaccine practices as about evolution and technological inventions. There’s a difference between being wrong in a slapdash, careless way and being wrong while still exercising the full range of one’s intellect and reasoning. Wallace was clearly the latter. He approached phrenology, spiritualism, and his opposition to vaccination not with blind credulity but with the same earnest, methodical scrutiny that he brought to the natural world. The troubling—and fascinating—truth is that his reasoning on its own terms often appears sound. He weighed evidence, analyzed outcomes, and critiqued prevailing orthodoxies with the confidence of someone deeply committed to truth. That these efforts didn’t produce enduring insights says less about Wallace’s mind than about the state of knowledge in his time and, perhaps, about the perils of intellectual overreach even in the most disciplined thinkers.

To come back to his belief in phrenology: it’s tempting to dismiss it as a relic of 19th-century pseudoscience, but for Wallace, it wasn’t mere superstition. He saw it as a scientific attempt to decode the physical basis of personality and intellect—a reasonable ambition in an era when so many scientific discoveries were overturning old assumptions. Wallace’s faith in phrenology stemmed from a larger belief in empiricism; the problem wasn’t his methodology so much as the flawed foundation on which he built his inquiries. He was willing to test ideas that were fashionable at the time, ideas that seemed to offer a rational explanation of human nature. It’s easy for us to judge his conclusions with hindsight, knowing that phrenology led nowhere, but Wallace himself didn’t have the luxury of such clarity. He was trying, as he always did, to follow the evidence.

His stance on vaccination is even more striking. It wasn’t based on some knee-jerk suspicion of science or technology but on what he viewed as a critical examination of contemporary medical practice. Wallace argued that the statistical evidence for vaccines was overstated, that government mandates encroached on individual liberties, and that medicine, as an institution, was prone to self-interest and error. Many of these arguments feel eerily modern. What sets Wallace apart from today’s more reactionary skeptics is that his critique was grounded in a sincere attempt to parse the facts of his day. His distrust of vaccines wasn’t based on outright denialism but on his interpretation of public health data and anecdotal cases—interpretations that turned out to be wrong, yes, but not absurd given the limitations of the evidence available to him.

The fact that Wallace’s arguments no longer hold water doesn’t mean they were baseless or unserious. Quite the opposite: their rigor makes them more poignant and instructive. Wallace’s errors show us that even the most thoughtful and diligent minds can falter when the data is incomplete or when certain frameworks of understanding are simply unavailable. He reminds us that intellectual sincerity is no safeguard against being wrong, which is an unsettling thought. If Wallace could misstep while striving so earnestly to get it right, then what does that mean for the rest of us?

Popular history’s erasure of Wallace’s “failed” ideas subtly reinforces a false narrative about the scientific process. The simplified version of Wallace that appears in popular accounts makes it seem as though science advances in a clean, linear fashion—incremental successes piling neatly atop one another. But in reality, science is an unruly, meandering affair, full of dead ends, false starts, and ideas that, while ultimately incorrect, contribute in some way to the larger process of understanding. Wallace’s careful but mistaken defenses of phrenology and vaccine skepticism are just as much a part of his scientific legacy as his contributions to evolutionary theory. They demonstrate the way real science is done: through a continual testing of ideas, some of which inevitably fail.

There’s also something deeply human about Wallace’s intellectual trajectory. His mistakes, like his triumphs, were the product of his relentless curiosity and his willingness to challenge received wisdom. He was unafraid to explore uncharted territory, even if that meant staking his reputation on ideas that wouldn’t stand the test of time. This quality is precisely what made him capable of formulating a theory as groundbreaking as natural selection. Wallace’s intellectual courage—his insistence on questioning orthodoxy wherever he found it—was both his greatest strength and, at times, his Achilles’ heel.

In the end, the omission of Wallace’s “bad ideas” from popular science books does a disservice to both him and us. It diminishes his complexity and reduces the messiness of real intellectual life to a sterile parade of victories. But perhaps more importantly, it robs us of an opportunity to grapple with the nature of knowledge itself: how we arrive at it, how often we get it wrong along the way, and how even the sharpest minds can be misled.

And it’s not like there’s simply no space for this information in a DK book. A few extra words would have been enough to alter the picture of him quite radically. To repeat: “As well as being an exceptional naturalist, Wallace was a keen environmentalist, social reformer, vaccine critique, and advocate of women’s rights and land reform, and a staunch defender of phrenology.”

Admittedly, there’s something kind of mischievous about how just a few additional words can so thoroughly destabilize the tidy image of Wallace as presented in the DK summary. A minor tweak, a brief nod to his more controversial beliefs, and suddenly the portrait takes on depth and texture. You’d still have Wallace the naturalist, Wallace the reformer, but now Wallace the contradictory figure begins to emerge. The juxtaposition—staunch advocate of women’s rights and defender of phrenology—would provoke a reader’s curiosity rather than just their admiration. How could one person hold such disparate commitments? What did Wallace see in phrenology that made it so compelling to him? And how does someone so forward-thinking in one realm seem so backward-looking in another? With just a few carefully chosen words, one could invite the reader into a richer, more perplexing story.

It’s not as if including these details would require an overhaul of the narrative. But those omitted facts don’t just lie dormant; their absence actively shapes the way we perceive Wallace. Readers are given the streamlined version, the “hero of progress” who fits snugly into the story of science as a march toward enlightenment. But this impulse to sanitize history does more harm than good. It flattens human figures into sterile symbols, stripped of the contradictions and complexities that make them relatable—and instructive.

[Carolyn Bragg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing. This book is, essentially a collection of articles covering a variety of biology topics. The basics, theory updates, condensed timelines of events and discoveries, and little-mentioned facts that were so interesting, I wanted to share them with someone immediately--so they could share my awe.

I enjoyed reviews of topics I learned about in school, and new approaches that are helping us learn more. My favorite section was Brain and Behavior; specifically about the clever ways animals use tools (including fire). And there were discoveries I hadn't read about, such as combining gasses in a glass container and seeing that amino acids had formed inorganically!

I read everything I can about many areas of science--for the fun of learning. This book was a treasure trove of information I could spend months reading and learning more about. Each article gave me food for thought that I wanted to enjoy, yet I was so excited, I wanted to speed ahead as well.

The directory of scientists was wonderful, the glossary helpful, the "In Context" mini time-lines enlightening, and the index a life-saver (if you are trying to find a specific subject).

The two things I was disappointed in: 1) The lack of structure is disorienting and confusing. As much as I was charmed by the article approach, the absence of subheadings made using the book clumsy. Within the main headings, there are only article titles to give you an idea what the section is about. And when the titles are supposed to be clever, or you are going back through to find something you read, it's extremely difficult to find a topic. 2) There was no article about muscle memory. Of course, every scientist has their own favorite subjects. However, in a book of this type, I felt it deserved a mention because it is so key to our understanding of the way our brain-body connection works. Especially as cases of dementia and brain related illnesses are rising.

For content, I give The Biology Book 4/5 stars, and for organization, 3/5.

It's a wonderful collection of exciting information, and I recommend it to any child, teen, or adult, who wants to understand more of what they are learning in our fast-paced world about biology.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a non-fiction book about biology to introduce students to biology, it contains diagrams and backgrounds on historical figures that contributed to the development of biology in the book. The book is separated into 9 major subtopics with each starting with a timeline of the progression of this topic. I was amused at the large and specific information that the book presented. Every page is detailed and filled with understandable examples and illustrations about the topic.

One element that I liked about the book was the timeline at the start of every subtopic. The timeline was like a table of contents for each topic, describing the different discoveries and major advances at certain times. This timeline contained thorough information and allowed me to better understand which stage of the topic I was reading about. On the other hand, the book would have been more enjoyable if it included more descriptions and histories of the different technologies used in the early developmental stages of biology. For example, the book mentions how Antonie van Leewenhoek's microscope was able to achieve up to 300 times magnification. The book provided some background on the development of competitive microscopes, but it would have been much better to include a diagram of how Antonie van Leewenhoek's microscope worked, which can give the readers an idea of how the scientists before them used these microscopes to discover different cells and viruses.

All in all, I would recommend this book to people with a little background in chemistry and biology. Even though the book is claimed to be for beginners, I constantly find myself jumping back and forth between the computer and the book, trying to look up how inorganic reactions can create organic substances and other ways things work. In conclusion, I would rate this book a 4 star.

[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. The entries are well written, with crystal-clear explanations. From a historical perspective, the book has a fairly global view. The Directory towards the end of the book was also interesting, containing brief entries on scientists not discussed in the main body of the work. Each sub-chapter in the book also contains a Context section to show what happened chronologically before and after the subject of the entry. The timelines were also very useful. The book had an encyclopedic feel to it, with enough information to hold my interest but not too detailed, so I never felt bogged down. I found the art in the book to be excellent. I had two quibbles with the book. One is a trend towards discussing medical concepts and the other is identifying scientists by their nationalities instead of where their work was done. To me the latter is more important. This book could be of interest to people with or without a biology background. Thank you to NetGalley and DK for the advance reader copy.

[Chuu · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve been a fan of books from DK Publishing since I was in elementary school. Their books are well-illustrated, with clean layouts. I own several other books in this series (Big Ideas Series) and have enjoyed reading all of them. Complex ideas are explained in bite-sized chunks that a layperson can easily understand. Helpful timelines, photos, and diagrams are sprinkled throughout the text. It’s a good refresher for concepts I’ve forgotten from high school and college. Teenagers to adults would all be able to learn basic Biology concepts from this book. I’d love to buy a hardcopy of this once it’s out.

#TheBiologyBook #NetGalley

[S Tondra · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Biology Book is full of facts that it reads in between a textbook and a illustrated information book. I have a masters in Life Science so I found it fascinating but might be a bit heavy for other readers that just want quick information. The book as nine main areas of study and gives some very interesting information under each area with focuses on the scientists and what impact their findings had in that focus.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC to read for a an honest review.

[Envy · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVED this book! Its a great and vast introduction to the basics of all aspects of Biology, from cells and particles, to natural selection and the ecosystem! It was written clearly in an easy way to follow, and included all the key figures and ideas discovered in the study of Biology. Also had a bunch of great pictures, photos and diagrams that made concepts easier to follow. I highly recommend this as a basic entry book for anyone interested in Biology as a whole.

[Martin Zorde · Rating 4 out of 5]

For me this was alot of review. I liked it but felt it was a bit western centric. I think an oriental centric version of this book would be interesting. Having said that this work outlines just how recently some of the discoveries have been which in some cases is surprising.

[Bitrus · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's the best Biology textbook I've ever come across.

[Jim · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not as fun as "The Science Book, in the same series.

[Frankie Christie · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5. Very wordy, focuses more on the history of biology than expected. A good read nonetheless.

[Annie]

While I like the idea of each topic being a chapter (instead of a lot of facts and unpronounceable terms), I don't like the layout of the book. I stopped reading after a few chapters.

[Joseph Hirsch · Rating 4 out of 5]

As exoplanetary science gets better and better—our chances for discovering other life also improve. Drake or Fermi might have the last word, and we might kill ourselves off before we even get close to seeing something sentient or slightly convergent with us. It’s also entirely possible that, if and when we encounter other sentient life, it will be in the form of fossils, or, if we’re really lucky, ruins. That said, the chances of encountering some tiny kind of proto-life or even bacteria are much higher. Heck, they may have found a bit of debris broken off from Mars in an impact crater preserved in polar ice that holds microbial life.
The point is, that we can’t know exactly what that life might look like. It might very well resemble our own life (convergent evolution again), but it might also be so different that we need to update our own definition. Something like this happened at the beginning of the 20th century, when great men of science claimed that all the laws of physics had been discovered. Which was true, provided they were talking about the Newtonian version, but one-hundred and eighty-degrees off true-north when talking about particles.
That’s what makes books like this one so valuable. In plain and simple language, with lots of engaging diagrams and photos, such books say: here is what we know. It’s not the entire store of human knowledge, but it is a good snapshot on the subject of life. It’s a great way for the layperson or the very young to get an overview of what humanity has accomplished, what mysteries remain, and what discoveries lay ahead.
It's also humbling to get a peek into the lives of the various people who made these things possible. There’s no doubt science has done horrible things, but on balance—barring anthropogenic-induced apocalypse—it’s done more good than harm. And many of these people not only had very rudimentary tools compared to today, but they also endured abuse from colleagues and superiors, or even worse, were totally ignored. And yet, despite that, they carried on, and our lives are arguably much better. We definitely live much longer, healthier lives (especially in the famed “Blue Zones” that boast lots of centenarians.)
The book starts with the basics, with a definition of life, at the level of the atom and the cell (the subatomic is saved for another day.) It ends with Ecology, with an emphasis on James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis, which is more a metaphor dealing with cybernetic feedback loops than an actual argument for the Earth being literally alive. In between we have crazy experiments by autodidactic polymaths, including one mad scientist who measured every bit of waste he excreted over the course of his lifetime. Considering that he, like most men of science of the time, was a “gentleman” who didn’t do his own housework, you have to feel for the charwoman who cleaned his quarters.
Also of note is that the book does a good job of not drawing a clear dividing line between pseudoscience and science. Since chemistry is very much an outgrowth of alchemy, and astronomy has roots in astrology, you’ll see why there are some true liminal cases. We haven’t yet found a philosopher’s stone, but German scientist Fritz Haber basically found a way to make food from air, and Ben Bova posits that there’s more energy in the hydrogen in a glass of water than in five-hundred million gallons of oil. Oh, and the ocean is filled with microparticles of gold that, could they be siphoned, would produce an unimaginable load of bullion, to be used for insulation, conduction, or stockpiled by greedy kings.
Not only that, but it would be the height of hubris to think that everything we believe now about science and medicine will remain unchallenged in the future. Remember that the best and brightest said everything from heroin to opioids were non-habit forming, or the pablum about certain “safe and effective” FDA approved drugs that turned out to be lethal. Heck, even DDT and Teflon coating (rejected as too dangerous a sealant for atomic bomb payloads!) were both once greeted as wonders of science. Malthusian arguments about scarcity once dismissed as scaremongering are also now being reexamined, as are attitudes about GMO foods.
Thus, sometimes it’s much better to look at a field guide like this one, than a bigger and more formidable textbook. The people who write textbooks are more inflexible, less apt to admit they got it wrong. New editions of this thing, however, can keep rolling off the presses year after year.
Recommended, though not quite as good as the best books in the series.

[anet]

Po téhle edici naučných knih pokukuju už dýl, ale čekala jsem na nějaké téma, které by mě zaujalo ještě víc. Takže když jsem viděla Knihu biologie, zaujala mě na první pohled.

U nás v minulých letech vyšla v překladu např. Kniha Ekologie, Náboženství, Politiky, Filozofie, Vědy a pár dalších.

Kniha se dělí hned do několika částí jako jsou Potrava a energie, Život, Mozek a chování, Zdraví a nemoc, Dědičnost, Ekologie a další..
Mě nejvíc zaujala část o nervové soustavě (mozek a chování) a zdraví a nemoc.

Myslím, že tahle knížka je fajn na doplnění znalostí a i když toho k danému tématu třeba tolik nevíte, všechny základy jsou tady popsány a nakresleny. Taky se mi moc líbí grafické zpracovaní.

Knihu můžu doporučit pro kohokoli, kdo se chce dozvědět nějaké zajímavosti z odvětví biologie a člověka, tohle mě vážně bavilo!:)

| #Spoluprace ~ Za poskytnutí recenzního výtisku mockrát děkuji @knizniklub, vy ten svůj seženete u @knihkupectvi_luxor 📚|

[Adrian Sandoval · Rating 4 out of 5]

No es lo mismo leer los libros de texto por obligación escolar que tomar un libro con la verdadera intención de aprender... estos libros de DK son geniales para llevarte paso a paso y en orden cronológico por los temas que cubren

La Biología es la búsqueda mas honesta de las respuestas de la vida, muchos alegarían que es la filosofía, pero sin un cerebro que trabaje, ni la comprensión de los "comos y porqués" funciona, toda verdadera búsqueda es inocua.

Leer sobre biología puede ser la cura para tanta desinformación y teorías conspiranóicas que acosan nuestra sociedad actual:

-Funcionamiento de las vacunas
-Evolución y evidencias de las teorías científicas
-Sexo y Género y sus DIFERENCIAS
-Ecología, calentamiento global y impacto en el medio ambiente

Y sobre todo, la comprensión de que la única arma que tenemos para mejorar el bienestar y la salud es conocer como funciona la vida.

[Fatima Sarder · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is more about the history of biology and than about in-depth biology itself.

It's is a visually appealing book and covers a vast array of topics, from the discovery of the scientific method to animal and plant cells and hormones and genetics and evolution; ending with ecology and the threat to the planet due to man-made pesticides and fertilizers.

A great introductory book, for anyone interested in biology. It makes for good revision material too.

[Heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another excellent DK Published book under our belts. I read this aloud to my 13yo and 15yo sons as part of their science curriculum. This series is wonderful and allows a broad look at various topics. We are looking forward to reading many more in the future.

[Minh Chau · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[cors · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the illustrations and I like the writing style, very easy to understand but not good enough to foster retention.

[Jammin Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book gives really clear explanations of all types of scientific theories and protocols. I really enjoyed reading it as I work to support researchers at a hospital.