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Alison Kalett
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Hallie Schaeffer
Assistant Editor, Biology
The biology list publishes books on topics that range across the life sciences. It has historic and core strengths in ecology, evolutionary biology, and behavioral biology alongside emerging strengths in biological anthropology, microbiome science, global change biology, and computational and mathematical biology. We publish across genres, from monographs and textbooks to works of popular science that introduce nonexperts to exciting, relevant ideas in biology.
Whenever possible, the list foregrounds books that take a broad and integrative approach and that cross traditional divides, such as those between theory and empiricism, molecular and organismal topics, and biology and other fields.
New & Noteworthy
Edited by Laura Kubatko and L. Lacey Knowles
Featured Audiobooks
Series
Ideas
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On origins, Africa, and the novelty of knowledge
Every living being has origins. Yes, plural, because living organisms adapt and change over time.
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In dialogue: Rethinking climate change and catastrophe
This month, in pursuit of clarity and advice, we gathered some of our authors and asked the following question: How should we think about the future in the face of climate change? Their perspectives offer us the tools to collectively rethink catastrophe in order to generate alternative possibilities of hope, action, or simple awareness regarding the planet and its beings.
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Athena Aktipis on the evolutionary drivers of cancer
When most of us consider the driving forces of cancer, not many of us would consider evolution to be one of them. It wasn’t until she began her research that Athena Aktipis realized that not only is cancer a living and ever evolving entity, but it is evolution itself that has paved the way for cancer’s ubiquity.
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Period: The Real Story of Menstruation
Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood.
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Peter Grant on Enchanted by Daphne
In his revelatory book, Grant takes readers from his childhood in World War II–era Britain to his ongoing research today in the Galápagos archipelago.
