Explorando los genes

Explore the everyday miracle of the microscopic world With spectacular macro photography and microscope images, this book reveals a hidden, living world full of intricate structures beyond the naked eye. Included are the tiniest insects and spiders; but looking deeper, you will discover truly microscopic creatures--even bacteria and viruses. Earth is home to more microbes, and more different types of microbes, than any other living organism. Bacteria on Earth outweigh humans by 1,100 to 1; and without them, all world ecosystems would collapse. This book reveals this vital, unseen realm, but...

Esta coleccion nacio de la voluntad de cinco editores europeos -Laterza, en Italia, Basil Blackwell, en Gran Bretana, Beck Verlag, en Alemania, Le Seuil, en Francia y Critica en Espana- interesados en colaborar, desde el ambito de la historia de la cultura, a la construccion de la Union Europea. Los libros que se han ido publicando en esta coleccion, que recoge autores de todos los paises y que ya ha sido traducida a lenguas como el turco, el japones, el portugues, el checo o el bulgaro, han sido consensuados siempre por los cinco editores y refrendados por el prestigioso historiador...

In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to...

New observations of the period between the cosmic recombination and the end of reionization are posing intriguing questions about where the first generations of stars were formed, how the first galaxies were assembled, whether these galaxies have low redshift counterparts, and what role the early galaxies played in the reionization process. Combining the new observational data with theoretical models can shed new light on open issues regarding the star formation process, its role in the reionization of the Universe, and the metal enrichment in galaxies at those early epochs. This volume...