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Anatomy
De humani corporis fabrica
''Gray's Anatomy''
★
Henry Gray
★ Henry Gray, Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body,
1858.
★
Online version 1918, .
'Description:' '''Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body''', commonly known as '''Gray's Anatomy''', is an anatomy textbook widely regarded as a classic work on
human anatomy. The book was first published under the title 'Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical' in
Great Britain in
1858, and the following year in the
United States. The book's British author died after the publication of the
1860 second edition, at the age of 34, but his much-praised book was continued by others and on
November 24,
2004, the 39th British edition was released.
'Importance:' Influence, introduction.
Botany
''Species Plantarum''
★
Carolus Linnaeus, 1753
★ online at
gallica
'Description :' a two-volume work, going through many editions (ever expanding), listing all plants then known, made accessible by an ordering in (artificial) classes and orders, and giving every listed species a two-part name (
Binomial nomenclature or
Binary name). With this book anybody, by counting the male and female parts present in a flower, could get to a listing of the genera the plant in question belongs to. This is the prime staring point of
botanical nomenclature. It was also the starting point of a great upsurge in the popularity of Science. Arguably the most important publication in systematic biology ever. Without Linnaeus there might have been no Darwin.
'Importance :' Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence
''Variation and Evolution in Plants''
★
G. Ledyard Stebbins, 1950
'Description:' a single volume on the role of genetics in plant evolution, the first comprehensive synthesis on the topic and a part of the canon of works of the
modern evolutionary synthesis.
Cell biology
Molecular Biology of the Cell
★
Alberts, Bruce; Johnson, Alexander; Lewis, Julian; Raff, Martin; Roberts, Keith; Walter, Peter
★ New York,
Garland Publishing, 2002
★ ISBN 0815332181
'Description:' A comprehensive introduction to cell and molecular biology, at both undergraduate and beginning graduate levels. There is a free
Online version.
'Importance:' This has long been the standard introduction to cell biology.
Developmental biology
'Genomic Regulatory Systems: Development and Evolution'
★ E. H. Davidson
★ ''Genomic Regulatory Systems: Development and Evolution'' (Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2001).
'Description' An important work based on a lifetime of solid research in developmental biology. The book is unique because it attempts to give a semi formal theory of regulatory networks as the basis of developmental biology.
'Importance:' Impact
★ ''
Developmental Biology'' (Sinauer Press), Scott Gilbert
'Systems Developmental Biology'
★ G. Forgacs and S. A. Newman
''Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo'' (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2005).
'Description' The first book to present an account of the full scope of embryonic development of vertebrate and invertebrate organisms on the basis of modern condensed matter physics and dynamical systems theory. Includes a chapter on the evolution of developmental mechanisms.
'Multicellular Systems Biology'
★ E. Werner
''In silico multicellular systems biology and minimal genomes'', Drug Discovery Today. 2003 Dec 15;8(24):1121-7.
'Description' An alternative approach to dynamical systems theory. Describes a new paradigm for understanding genomes in the development of organisms.
Ecology
Competitive exclusion
★
Georgii Frantsevich Gause
★ G. F. Gause. The struggle for existence, 1936. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins.
'Description:' In this book Gause established his
Competitive exclusion principle, through experiments involving
Paramecium. The principle holds that no two species can co-exist for long if they have to compete for highly similar resources. This outcome has two preconditions: 1) panmixis of individuals of competing species, 2) the environment is homogeneous in time and space. These conditions may be met with by aquatic microorganisms grown under laboratory conditions. However, in most real-world biotic communities, both conditions are likely to be violated from moderately to strongly.
'Importance:' Topic creator, breakthrough.
★
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
★ Hutchinson, G. E. (1959). "Homage to
Santa Rosalia or why are there so many kinds of animals?" ''
American Naturalist'', '93', 145-159.
'Description:' Hutchinson's 1959 paper went a long way to understanding community assembly in ecosystems, in addition to solving an apparent violation of competitive exclusion. His studies of ''
Corixidae'' lead to the discovery of '1:1.3' ''Hutchinson ratio'' that is ubiquitous in all community systems involving the co-existence of two ''niche-similar'' predatorial species. The size ratio difference is what permits their co-existence despite the degree of ''niche-overlap'', and formed the basis for the
limiting similarity theory - one of the most important contributions to Community Ecology to date.
'Importance:' Breakthrough.
Ecological niche
★
Joseph Grinnell
★ Grinnell, J. (1917). "The Niche relationship of the California Thrasher", ''
Auk'', '34', 427-433.
'Description:' This is the paper in which the concept of the
Ecological niche was first developed. Although Joseph Grinnell viewed the species
habitat as being analogous to its niche, which is not how niches are perceived today, it still represented a significant contribution as it got his contemporary Ecologists thinking in such a way that lay the foundations for modern day Ecology.
'Importance:' Topic creator, Impact.
★
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
★ Hutchinson, G. E. (1957). "Concluding remarks, Cold Spring Harbor Symposium." ''Quant. Biol'', '22', 415-427.
'Description:' In Hutchinson's 1957 address, for the first time in ecology, a strongly quantitative method for understanding the relationship between a species, its ecosystem and the environment at large is developed. Even if today Hutchinson's niche concept (or even the relevance of niches to ecology in general) is disputed, he fundamentally changed the orientation of ecology away from a qualitative science towards a strongly quantitative one. Hutchinson is thusly considered by many as the father of modern ecology.
'Importance:' Breakthrough.
Entomology
''History of Insects''
★
Rasnitsyn, A.P.
★ Quicke, D.L.J.
★ Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002
'Description:' This book tries to cover the whole extent of the history of the insects in time and space.
'Importance:' By a leader in the paleotology of insects.
''Souvenirs entomologiques''
★
Jean-Henri Fabre
★
His works
'Description:' Fabre investigated insects, both at the anatomical level and the behavioral level.
Evolutionary biology
''Histoire Naturelle''
★
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
★
1749-
1788
'Description:' Until the publication of this encyclopedia the scientific community thought that all animals were created together by
God before about 6,000 years. Not only did this 44 volume encyclopedia contained all descriptive biological knowledge of its time, it offered a new theory. 100 years before Darwin, Buffon claimed that man and ape might have a common ancestor. His work also had significant impact on
ecology.
'Importance:' Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact
''On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection''
★
Charles Darwin and
Alfred Russel Wallace
★
1858
★
On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection
★
★
''Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 3'': 46-50.
★
★
On The Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type
'Description:' In September 1838 Charles Darwin conceived his theory of
natural selection as the cause of
evolution, then as well as developing his career as a
naturalist worked privately on finding evidence and answering possible objections, circulating
essays written in 1842 and 1844 to his friends. Wallace, who was corresponding with Darwin from
Borneo, arrived independently at the same theory. He wrote his paper ''On The Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type'' in February 1858 and sent it to Darwin, who received it on on
18 June 1858 and passed it to
Lyell and
Hooker. They arranged for a joint publication of Wallace's paper and an extract from Darwin's 1844 essay; this was read to the
Linnean Society of London on
1 July 1858, and printed in the ''Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 3'': 46-50. It had little impact at the time, but spurred Darwin to write an "abstract" of the "big book" ''Natural Selection'' he was then working on; this condensed version was published in November 1859 as ''
On the Origin of Species''.
'Importance:' Topic creator, Breakthrough
''The Origin of Species''
★
Charles Darwin
★
On the Origin of Species, John Murray, London, 1859.
★ Retrieved on
2007-01-14
★
Origin of Species, 6th Edition (text)
'Description:' The Origin of Species is one of the hallmark works of
biology. In this shortened abstract of his intended "big book" on ''Natural Selection'', Darwin details his
theory that
organisms gradually
evolve through a process of
natural selection, and this process leads to the formation of new
species. It was first published on
November 24,
1859 and the initial print run was oversubscribed by booksellers at Murray's Autumn sale the day before.
Darwin presents a theory of natural selection that is in most aspects identical to the theories now accepted by scientists. He carefully argues out this theory by presenting accumulated scientific evidence from his
voyage on the ''Beagle'' in the 1830s, and from his continuing studies up to the date of publication. His studies continued, with the book being revised accordingly, the most extensive revisions being to the 6th and final edition.
'Importance:' Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact
''The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection''
★
Ronald Fisher
★
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, Oxford University Press;
1930, New Ed edition (May 1,
2000) ISBN 0-19-850440-3.
'Description:' This book discusses
Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection
'Importance:' Impact--this has been the basis for population genetics.
Evolutionary developmental biology
The Evolution of Individuality
★
Leo W. Buss
★ 1987, The Evolution of Individuality, Princeton University Press.
'Description:' In his book that examines the cell lineage as a unit of selection, Leo Buss addresses the evolutionary conflict between the individuality of cells that make up a metazoan and the metazoan individual itself. In elaborating this idea he presents numerous hypotheses regarding the evolution of animal development and life cycles. He wraps it up by addressing hierarchical organization in biology. It is one of the first texts addressing the idea of the individual in biology, integrating multilevel selection theory (from the macroevolutionists and gene selectionists) with developmental and cell biology. Though heavy on the theory and rather light on the evidence, for anyone interested in evo-devo or macroevolution this should be an essential read.
'Importance:' Topic creator, influence
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
★
Stephen Jay Gould
★ 1977, Ontogeny and Phylogeny, Harvard University Press
'Description:' Critically revisits
Haeckel's idea that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." Gould presents
heterochrony as a concept that allows us to describe the majority of developmental processes in evolution. This book played a significant role at the time by bringing the evolutionary biology community back to examine developmental biology, ignored for many years.
'Importance:' Influence
Genetics
''Experiments on Plant Hybridization ''
★
Gregor Mendel
★
Proceedings of the Natural History Society, 1866.
★
Online version
'Description:' Experiments on Plant Hybridization was the result after years spent studying
genetic traits in pea plants. In his paper, Mendel compared seven discrete traits. Through experimentation, Mendel discovered that one inheritable trait would invariably be dominant to its recessive alternative. This model, later known as
Mendelian inheritance or Mendelian genetics, provided an alternative to blending inheritance, which was the prevailing theory at the time.
'Importance:' Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact
Molecular biology
===''
Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids''===
★
Francis Crick,
James D. Watson
★
Nature (journal)171, 737-738 (
1953)
★
Online version (Original text)
'Description:' Discovery of the structure of the
DNA molecule.
'Importance:' Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact
''DNA Sequencing with Chain-Terminating Inhibitors''
★
Frederick Sanger,
S. Nicklen, and
A. R. Coulson
★
PNAS, vol. 74, no. 12, p. 5463-5467 (
1977)
★
(Original text)
'Description:' The basis of the
DNA sequencing technique. (Sanger won his second
Nobel prize on the basis of this discovery)
'Importance:' Breakthrough, Impact
''Molecular Cloning : A Laboratory Manual''
★ original edition,
1982:
E.F.Fritsch,
Joe Sambrook,
Tom Maniatis
★ second edition,
1989:
Joe Sambrook,
E.F.Fritsch,
Tom Maniatis
★ third edition,
2001:
David W. Russell,
Joe Sambrook
★ manual published by
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
★
Official website of the book
'Description:' The manual (to which is often referred simply as the ''Maniatis'') is universally recognized as the best manual for molecular biology techniques. The theory behind the techniques is also discussed in details. It is cited by thousands of publications.
'Importance:' Impact
Origin of life
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
★
Andrew H. Knoll
★ 2003, Princeton University Press.
'Description:' A very readable yet complete introduction to the early evolution of life.
'Importance:' Introduction.
Phylogenetics
Phylogenetic Systematics
★
Willi Hennig
★ University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1966.
'Description:' This book popularized the techniques of
cladistics in the English-speaking world. It is based on work published in German starting 1950.
Willi Hennig is considered the founder of cladistics, which he developed while working as an entomologist in East Germany.
'Importance:' The origin of the subject; lasting influence
Inferring Phylogenies
★
Joseph Felsenstein
★ Sinauer Associates, 2004.
'Description:' An excellent technical manual to guide any biologist wishing to construct a phylogenetic hypothesis.
'Importance:' Possibly the most complete and authoritative work published on phylogenetics to date.
Phylogenetics
★ Charles Semple and Mike Steel
★ Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and Its Applications, 2003
★ ISBN 0198509421
'Description:' Introduction to the mathematical theory behind phylogenetic methods, both for biologists and for mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists--this is an emerging area of discrete mathematics.
'Importance:' A useful monograph on the mathematics of phylogenetic methods.
Psychobiology
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
★
Wilson, E. O
★
Sociobiology: The new synthesis. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1975.
'Description:' Wilson introduced the term
sociobiology as an attempt to explain the
evolutionary mechanics behind social behaviors such as
altruism,
aggression, and nurturance. Wilson's book sparked one of the great scientific
controversies in biology of the
20th century.
'Importance:'
Systems biology
The Meaning of Systems Biology
★ Marc W. Kirschner
★ Cell, Vol. 121, 503 – 504, May 20, 2005
'Description:' A brief justification for systems biology.
'Importance:'
Taxonomy
''Systema Naturae''
★
Carolus Linnaeus
★ First published: 10th edition
1758
'Description:' The starting point of zoological nomenclature, and the
binomen. Follows the similar starting point for plants in 1753.
'Importance:' Impact
Zoology
''History of Animals''
★
Aristotle
★ 350 BC
★
The history of animals
'Description:' A work in which Aristotle describes the anatomy of organisms, with a particular emphasis on morphology. Consists of ten books of facts and descriptions. Many claim the book seems unscientific by today's standards.
'Importance:' Topic creator, Impact
''Naturalis Historia''
★
Gaius Plinius Secundus
★
70
★
Naturalis Historia
'Description:' Encyclopedia of nature. It included many areas that are not considered to be part of nature sciences today - from
geography,
botany,
zoology to
painting. The encyclopedia was also novel with respect to its structure. It was to first book to use references, table of contents and tables of animals characteristics.
'Importance:' Impact
''The Natural History of Selborne''
★
Gilbert White
★
1813
★
The letters
'Description:' In these letters, White published his observations on birds near his house.
'Importance:' Impact
See also
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List of publications in science
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