In their sometimes fierce, often mysterious day-to-day lives, many plants and animals rely on the transmission and reception of chemicals for the basic function
Discusses the chemical compounds used for communicating and as weapons by plants, animals, and insects, and explores the medicinal uses of natural chemicals
This could be the most important book you will read this year. Around the office at Chelsea Green it is referred to as the "pharmaceutical Silent Spring." Well-
An analysis of convergent evolution from molecules to ecosystems, demonstrating the limited number of evolutionary pathways available to life. Charles Darwin fa