[PDF] Developing Animals eBook

Author : Matthew Brower
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0816654786

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How the emergence of wildlife photography changed the way we think about animals.

Author : Temple Grandin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0151014892

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The author of "Animals in Translation" employs her own experience with autism and her background as an animal scientist to show how to give animals the best and happiest life.

Author : Paul Shepard
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0820342343

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In a world increasingly dominated by human beings, the survival of other species becomes more and more questionable. In this brilliant book, Paul Shepard offers a provocative alternative to an "us or them" mentality, proposing that other species are integral to humanity's evolution and exist at the core of our imagination. This trait, he argues, compels us to think of animals in order to be human. Without other living species by which to measure ourselves, Shepard warns, we would be less mature, care less for and be more careless of all life, including our own kind.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 1988-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309038391

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Scientific experiments using animals have contributed significantly to the improvement of human health. Animal experiments were crucial to the conquest of polio, for example, and they will undoubtedly be one of the keystones in AIDS research. However, some persons believe that the cost to the animals is often high. Authored by a committee of experts from various fields, this book discusses the benefits that have resulted from animal research, the scope of animal research today, the concerns of advocates of animal welfare, and the prospects for finding alternatives to animal use. The authors conclude with specific recommendations for more consistent government action.

Author : C. H. Waddington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1317352483

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First published in 1935 (this edition in 1946), this short account of the science of embryology was the first book in English to provide a simple outline of the whole of this important subject. The study of development is perhaps the best method of approach to the most fundamental of all biological problems, the problem of how all the diverse activities are integrated so as to make up a complete individual organism. The book gives a short sketch of the general pattern on which all animals are built, but devotes more attention to the factors which cause the development of the elements in the pattern, and which then bring them into correct relations with one another. This volume is simply written in order to enable the general reader to understand the revolutionary advances made in the subject at that time.

Author : Wolfgang Hennig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 22,88 MB
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 354047191X

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Four of the major animal systems studied for the mechanisms of their early embryonic development are treated in this volume. The articles address the specific questions studied in the various systems, discuss the fundamental questions raised by the particular organism and explain the techniques used to find answers to these questions. Questions of patternformation, early organogenesis and the genetics of the early development arecovered as well as the question of parental imprinting phenomena in mammals which are important for the early differentiation. The development of the mouse, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis and the zebrafish is emphasized by leading experts of their fields, and current problems in each system are exposed. For the zebrafish the advantages of this new system for developmental biology studies are summarized and discussed in their values, while in the other system the emphasis is laid on one of the actual field of research.

Author : F. S. Billett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401168849

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The purpose of this book is twofold: it is meant to serve both as a practical manual for the study of animal development and as a general introduction to the subject. Central to our en deavour is the belief that developmental biology is best taught and learnt at the laboratory bench, with specimens which are either alive and can be seen to develop or with fresh material derived directly from the egg (as in birds) or mother (as in mammals). Once the dynamic nature of development is appreci ated and the overall structure of the developing organism discerned the more conventional study of sections and whole mounts is more likely to become a delight rather than a diffi cult, and often meaningless, chore. We have laid considerable stress on the early development of animal embryos and the ways in which they can be obtained from a relatively few, but reliable, sources. In addition, emphasis has been placed on fairly simple experiments which make use of the embryos and larvae chosen for the purpose of illustrating develop ment. Embryology ceased to be a descriptive science at the beginning of this century and any practical course, at what ever level, should attempt to reflect this change. It is true that the analysis of development, particularly the genesis of chor date structure, owed much to the invention of the microtome.