Understanding Reproduction
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Part of Understanding Life
- Authors:
- Giuseppe Fusco, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
- Alessandro Minelli, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
- Date Published: August 2023
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009225939
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Our understanding of reproduction and reproductive processes is often biased towards the behaviour of organisms most familiar to us. As such, the amazing disparity of the phenomena of reproduction and sex is often overlooked. Understanding Reproduction addresses all the main facets of this large chapter of the life sciences, including discussions of asexual reproduction, parthenogenesis, sex determination, reproductive effort, and much more. The book features an abundance of examples from across the tree of life, including animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria. Written in an accessible and easy to digest style, overcoming the intimidating diversity of the technical terminology, this book will appeal to interested general readers, biologists, science educators, philosophers and medical doctors.
Read more- Covers a wealth of unexpected phenomena in the domain of sex and reproduction, discussing a number of issues that have previously been overlooked
- Features examples from across the tree of life, providing arguments to go beyond the narrow popular perspectives on sex and reproduction
- Identifies issues across the amazing disparity of reproductive phenomena, which are concisely explained and illustrated by examples from all the main branches of the tree of life
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‘Fusco and Minelli provide a very clear and accessible overview of the strange and wonderful diversity of reproductive strategies and mechanisms in animals, plants and other organisms. They explain key concepts, define important terms, and place reproductive modes within an ecological and evolutionary context. This book will be a useful reference for biologists, students and even curious non-specialists.’ Russell Bonduriansky, University of New South Wales, Australia
See more reviews‘As a plant biologist, I often find myself trying to explain reproduction in plants as though they are somehow an anomaly rather than just another way of reaching the same goal following first principles. This perception of anomaly comes from a pedagogical bias of teaching reproduction as ‘sex in mammals’. This book ties together concepts regardless of organism, drawing clear lines between a complex diversity of patterns and their underlying reproductive processes.’ Chelsea D. Specht, Barbara McClintock Professor in Plant Biology, Cornell University, USA
‘The authors' succinct transdisciplinary approach, and their use of explanations accessible to nonspecialists, makes this an ideal resource for a general audience as students in seminars … Highly recommended.’ A. L. Jacobsen, Choice
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- Date Published: August 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009225939
- length: 225 pages
- dimensions: 178 x 127 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.21kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Individuals and Reproduction
2. Reproduction in the Life Cycle
3. Reproduction Without Sex
4. Reproduction with Sex
5. Two-Parent Sexual Reproduction
6. One-Parent (or Nearly so) Sexual Reproduction
7. Development of Sexual Traits
8. Widening the View: Reproductive Strategies
Concluding Remarks: Difficult Boundaries.
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