Union Square & Co. Milestones
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Union Square & Co. Milestones

From the Origin of Life to Epigenetics, 250 Milestones in the History of Biology

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Union Square & Co. Milestones

From the Origin of Life to Epigenetics, 250 Milestones in the History of Biology

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From the emergence of life, to Leewenhoeks microscopic world, to GMO crops, The Biology Book presents 250 landmarks in the most widely studied scientific field. Brief, engaging, and colorfully illustrated synopses introduce readers to every major subdiscipline, including cell theory, genetics, evolution, physiology, thermodynamics, molecular biology, and ecology. With information on such varied topics as paleontology, pheromones, nature vs. nurture, DNA fingerprinting, bioenergetics, and so much more, this lively collection will engage everyone who studies and appreciates the life sciences.

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Publisher
Union Square & Co.
Year
2015
ISBN
9781454915331
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Biology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Other Books By This Author
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. c. 4 Billion BCE: Origin of Life
  10. c. 3.9 Billion BCE: Last Universal Common Ancestor
  11. c. 3.9 Billion BCE: Prokaryotes
  12. c. 2.5 Billion BCE: Algae
  13. c. 2 Billion BCE: Eukaryotes
  14. c. 1.4 Billion BCE: Fungi
  15. c. 570 Million BCE: Arthropods
  16. c. 530 Million BCE: Medulla: The Vital Brain
  17. c. 530 Million BCE: Fish
  18. c. 450 Million BCE: Land Plants
  19. c. 417 Million BCE: Devonian Period
  20. c. 400 Million BCE: Insects
  21. c. 400 Million BCE: Plant Defenses against Herbivores
  22. c. 360 Million BCE: Amphibians
  23. c. 350 Million BCE: Seeds of Success
  24. c. 320 Million BCE: Reptiles
  25. c. 300 Million BCE: Gymnosperms
  26. c. 230 Million BCE: Dinosaurs
  27. c. 200 Million BCE: Mammals
  28. c. 150 Million BCE: Birds
  29. c. 125 Million BCE: Angiosperms
  30. c. 65 Million BCE: Primates
  31. c. 55 Million BCE: Amazon Rainforest
  32. c. 350,000 BCE: Neanderthals
  33. c. 200,000 BCE: Anatomically Modern Humans
  34. c. 60,000 BCE: Plant-Derived Medicines
  35. c. 11,000 BCE: Wheat: The Staff of Life
  36. c. 10,000 BCE: Agriculture
  37. c. 10,000 BCE: Domestication of Animals
  38. c. 8000 BCE: Coral Reefs
  39. c. 7000 BCE: Rice Cultivation
  40. c. 2600 BCE: Mummification
  41. c. 2350 BCE: Animal Navigation
  42. c. 400 BCE: Four Humors
  43. c. 330 BCE: Aristotle’s The History of Animals
  44. c. 330 BCE: Animal Migration
  45. c. 320 BCE: Botany
  46. 77: Pliny’s Natural History
  47. c. 180: Skeletal System
  48. 1242: Pulmonary Circulation
  49. 1489: Leonardo’s Human Anatomy
  50. 1521: Sense of Hearing
  51. 1543: Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica
  52. 1611: Tobacco
  53. 1614: Metabolism
  54. 1620: Scientific Method
  55. 1628: Harvey’s De motu cordis
  56. 1637: Mechanical Philosophy of Descartes
  57. 1651: Placenta
  58. 1652: Lymphatic System
  59. 1658: Blood Cells
  60. 1668: Refuting Spontaneous Generation
  61. 1669: Phosphorus Cycle
  62. 1670: Ergotism and Witchcraft
  63. 1674: Leeuwenhoek’s Microscopic World
  64. 1677: Spermatozoa
  65. 1717: Miasma Theory
  66. 1729: Circadian Rhythms
  67. 1733: Blood Pressure
  68. 1735: Linnaean Classification of Species
  69. c. 1741: Cerebrospinal Fluid
  70. 1744: Regeneration
  71. 1759: Theories of Germination
  72. 1760: Artificial Selection (Selective Breeding)
  73. 1786: Animal Electricity
  74. 1789: Gas Exchange
  75. 1791: Nervous System Communication
  76. 1796: Paleontology
  77. 1798: Population Growth and Food Supply
  78. 1809: Lamarckian Inheritance
  79. 1828: Germ-Layer Theory of Development
  80. 1831: Cell Nucleus
  81. 1831: Darwin and the Voyages of the Beagle
  82. 1832: Anatomy Act of 1832
  83. 1833: Human Digestion
  84. 1836: Fossil Record and Evolution
  85. 1837: Nitrogen Cycle and Plant Chemistry
  86. 1838: Cell Theory
  87. 1840: Plant Nutrition
  88. 1842: Urine Formation
  89. 1842: Apoptosis (Programmed Cell Death)
  90. 1843: Venoms
  91. 1843: Homology versus Analogy
  92. 1845: Photosynthesis
  93. 1848: Optical Isomers
  94. 1849: Testosterone
  95. 1850: Trichromatic Color Vision
  96. 1854: Homeostasis
  97. 1856: The Liver and Glucose Metabolism
  98. 1857: Microbial Fermentation
  99. 1859: Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection
  100. 1859: Ecological Interactions
  101. 1859: Invasive Species
  102. 1861: Localization of Cerebral Function
  103. 1862: Biological Mimicry
  104. 1866: Mendelian Inheritance
  105. 1866: Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
  106. 1866: Hemoglobin and Hemocyanin
  107. 1869: Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)
  108. 1871: Sexual Selection
  109. 1873: Coevolution
  110. 1874: Nature versus Nurture
  111. 1875: Biosphere
  112. 1876: Meiosis
  113. 1876: Biogeography
  114. 1877: Marine Biology
  115. 1878: Enzymes
  116. 1880: Phototropism
  117. 1882: Mitosis
  118. c. 1882: Thermoreception
  119. 1882: Innate Immunity
  120. 1883: Germ Plasm Theory of Heredity
  121. 1883: Eugenics
  122. 1884: Gram Stain
  123. 1885: Negative Feedback
  124. 1890: Germ Theory of Disease
  125. 1890: Animal Coloration
  126. 1891: Neuron Doctrine
  127. 1892: Endotoxins
  128. 1896: Global Warming
  129. 1897: Adaptive Immunity
  130. 1897: Associative Learning
  131. 1897: Ehrlich’s Side-Chain Theory
  132. 1898: Malaria-Causing Protozoan Parasite
  133. 1898: Viruses
  134. 1899: Ecological Succession
  135. 1899: Animal Locomotion
  136. 1900: Genetics Rediscovered
  137. 1900: Ovaries and Female Reproduction
  138. 1901: Blood Types
  139. 1902: Tissue Culture
  140. 1902: Secretin: The First Hormone
  141. 1904: Dendrochronology
  142. 1905: Blood Clotting
  143. 1907: Radiometric Dating
  144. 1907: Probiotics
  145. 1907: Why Does the Heart Beat?
  146. 1908: Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
  147. 1910: Genes on Chromosomes
  148. 1911: Cancer-Causing Viruses
  149. 1912: Continental Drift
  150. 1912: Vitamins and Beriberi
  151. 1912: Thyroid Gland and Metamorphosis
  152. 1912: X-Ray Crystallography
  153. 1917: Bacteriophages
  154. 1919: Biotechnology
  155. 1920: Neurotransmitters
  156. 1921: Insulin
  157. 1923: Inborn Errors of Metabolism
  158. 1924: Embryonic Induction
  159. 1924: Timing Fertility
  160. 1925: Mitochondria and Cellular Respiration
  161. 1925: “The Monkey Trial”
  162. 1925: Population Ecology
  163. 1927: Food Webs
  164. 1927: Insect Dance Language
  165. 1928: Antibiotics
  166. 1929: Progesterone
  167. 1930: Osmoregulation in Freshwater and Marine Fish
  168. 1931: Electron Microscope
  169. 1935: Imprinting
  170. 1935: Factors Affecting Population Growth
  171. 1936: Stress
  172. 1936: Allometry
  173. 1937: Evolutionary Genetics
  174. 1938: Coelacanth: “The Living Fossil”
  175. 1939: Action Potential
  176. 1941: One Gene-One Enzyme Hypothesis
  177. 1942: Biological Species Concept and Reproductive Isolation
  178. 1943: Arabidopsis: A Model Plant
  179. 1944: DNA as Carrier of Genetic Information
  180. 1945: Green Revolution
  181. 1946: Bacterial Genetics
  182. 1949: Reticular Activating System
  183. 1950: Phylogenetic Systematics
  184. 1951: The Immortal HeLa Cells
  185. 1952: Cloning (Nuclear Transfer)
  186. 1952: Amino Acid Sequence of Insulin
  187. 1952: Pattern Formations in Nature
  188. 1952: Plasmids
  189. 1952: Nerve Growth Factor
  190. 1953: Miller-Urey Experiment
  191. 1953: The Double Helix
  192. 1953: REM Sleep
  193. 1953: Acquired Immunological Tolerance and Organ Transplantation
  194. 1954: Sliding Filament Theory of Muscle Contraction
  195. 1955: Ribosomes
  196. 1955: Lysosomes
  197. 1956: Prenatal Genetic Testing
  198. 1956: DNA Polymerase
  199. 1956: Second Messengers
  200. 1957: Protein Structures and Folding
  201. 1957: Bioenergetics
  202. 1958: Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
  203. 1958: Bionics and Cyborgs
  204. 1959: Pheromones
  205. 1960: Energy Balance
  206. 1960: Chimpanzee Use of Tools
  207. 1961: Cellular Senescence
  208. 1961: Cracking the Genetic Code for Protein Biosynthesis
  209. 1961: Operon Model of Gene Regulation
  210. 1962: Thrifty Gene Hypothesis
  211. 1962: Silent Spring
  212. 1963: Hybrids and Hybrid Zones
  213. 1964: Brain Lateralization
  214. 1964: Animal Altruism
  215. 1966: Optimal Foraging Theory
  216. 1967: Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics
  217. 1967: Endosymbiont Theory
  218. 1968: Multi-Store Model of Memory
  219. 1968: Hypothalamic-Pituitary Axis
  220. 1968: Systems Biology
  221. 1969: Cellular Determination
  222. 1970: Cell Cycle Checkpoints
  223. 1972: Punctuated Equilibrium
  224. 1972: Sustainable Development
  225. 1972: Parental Investment and Sexual Selection
  226. 1974: Lucy
  227. 1974: Cholesterol Metabolism
  228. 1974: Sense of Taste
  229. 1975: Monoclonal Antibodies
  230. 1975: Sociobiology
  231. 1976: Cancer-Causing Genes
  232. 1977: Bioinformatics
  233. 1978: In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
  234. 1979: Biological Magnification
  235. 1980: Can Living Organisms Be Patented?
  236. 1982: Genetically Modified Crops
  237. 1983: HIV and AIDS
  238. 1983: Polymerase Chain Reaction
  239. 1984: DNA Fingerprinting
  240. 1986: Genomics
  241. 1987: Mitochondrial Eve
  242. 1987: Depletion of the Ozone Layer
  243. 1990: Domains of Life
  244. 1991: Sense of Smell
  245. 1994: Leptin: The Thinness Hormone
  246. 2000: Skin Color
  247. 2003: Human Genome Project
  248. 2005: Protist Taxonomy
  249. 2006: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
  250. 2009: Viral Mutations and Pandemics
  251. 2010: Deepwater Horizon (BP) Oil Spill
  252. 2011: Translational Biomedical Research
  253. 2011: Albumin From Rice
  254. 2012: Human Microbiome Project
  255. 2012: Epigenetics
  256. 2013: American Chestnut Tree Blight
  257. 2013: De-Extinction
  258. 2013: Oldest DNA and Human Evolution
  259. Notes and Further Reading
  260. Photo Credits