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books: biology mostly passworded wth the file name

Armand Marie Leroi The Lagoon How Aristotle invented science (Penguin Books 2014)  Lagoon, LagoonSummary


evolution

G Dover Dear Mr Darwin (California UP 2000) Dover.pdf 

E Jablonka and M J Lamb Evolution in Four Dimensions Genetic, epigenetic, behavioral. and symbolic variation in the history of life (MIT Press 2005) Evo4D.pdf

M Ridley, The Cooperative Gene, How Mendel's Demon explains the evolution of complex beings (The Free Press, 2001) CoopGene.pdf

Daniel C. Dennett Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life} DDI.pdf

M W Kirschner and J G Gerhardt The plausibility of life---resolving Darwin’s dilemma 2005 plaus.pdf

J Silvertown Demons in Eden---The paradox of plant life (U Chicago 2005) DemonE.pdf

M Ruse Darwinism and Its Discontent (2006) DDisc.pdf

M A Nowak, Evolution Dynamics---exploring the equation of life 2006 nowak.pdf 

G McGhee The Geometry of Evolution Adaptive Landscape and Theoretical Morphogenesis (Cambridge 2007) GeoEvo.pdf

M Lynch: The Origins of Genome Architecture (Synauer 2007) lynch.pdf

W D Allmon, P H Kelley and R M Ross (d): Stephen Jay Gould (Oxford 2009) sjgould.pdf

S Ohsawa  Evolution of genetic code (Oxford 1995)   evocode.pdf

D W McShea and R N Brandon (U Chicago Press, 2010)  firstlaw.pdf

S. Okasha  Evolution and the Levels of Selection (Oxford 2006)  okalevel.pdf

A Wagner  Robustness and evolvability in living systems (Princeton UP)   robust.pdf

A Wagner  The origin of evolutionary innovation a theory of transformative change in living systems (Oxford, 2011) orinno.pdf

A Wagner  Arrival of the fittest  Solving evolution's greatest puzzle (Penguin Randoomhouse 2014) arrfit.pdf

R Wesson  Beyond natural selection (MIT Press 1991)  beynat.pdf

S J Gould  The structure of evolution theory (Harvard)  setset.pdf

斎藤成也 ダーウィン入門 (ちくま新書 20110  saitod.pdf

EvoDevo

S B Carroll, J K Grenier and S D Weatherbee From DNA to Diversity,   Molecular genetics and the evolution of animal design (Blackwell Science, 2001) Carroll.pdf

S B Carroll Endless Forms Most Beautiful (W W Norton Co, 2005) EndlessF.pdf

A Minelli The Development of Animal Form --- ontogeny, morphology and evolution (Cambridge UP, 2003) DevAnim.pdf

G Schlosser and G P Wagner ed Modularity in Development and Evolution (2004) modularity.pdf

genetics

J F Crow, Basic Concepts in Population, Quantitative, and Evolutionary genetics (Freeman, 1986) JFCrow.pdf

M Lynch and B Walsh Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits (1998) LynchQTL.pdf

brain, language, consciousness, etc.

井筒敏彦 : 意識と本質 Ibol.pdf

正高信男 : 子どもはことばをからだで覚える(中公新書1583, 2001) kodomo.pdf

F R Prete ed Complex worlds from simpler nervous systems 2004 simpleN.pdf

D. L. Everett Don’t sleep, there are snakes (Pantheon, 2008) everett.pdf

N Carr The Shallows (Norton 2010) Shallows.pdf

biochemistry/cell biology

F M Harold, The way of the cell 2001 WayCell.pdf

D Voet and J D Voet  Biochemistry  4th ed   Biochemistry.pdf    93 pages

B H Kim and M Gadd (Oxford UP 2008) Bacterial physiology and metabolism   probchem.pdf  130 pages

ecology

S Levin Fragile Dominion---Complexity and the Commons (Perseus Publishing 1999) Fragile.pdf 

J H Vadermeer and D E Goldberg Population Ecology --- first principles (Princeton UP 2003)

 Better illustrated summary for math oriented people (math errors in the original corrected) PopEco.pdf

origin, general biology, etc

T Ganti, Chemoton (Kluwer 2003) Chemoton.pdf T Ganti, Principles of Life (Oxford 2003) GantiP.pdf

R Rosen Life Itself (Columbia 1991) LifeI.pdf

P Davies The Demon in the machine   deminmach.pdf

R M Hazen Genesis---The scientific quest for life's origin (Joseph Henry Press 2005) Genesis.pdf

M Barbieri Organic Code---an introduction to semantic biology OrgCode.pdf

M Mitchell Complexity a guided tour ComplexityGuidedTour.pdf

I Stewart The Mathematics of Life MathOfLife.pdf

S Camazine et al., Self-Organization in Biological Systems (Princeton 2001)  selforg.pdf

A Pross  What is life? — how chemistry becomes biology  (Oxford UP)   prosslife.pdf

Sociobiology

Mark Buchanan   The Social Atom   why the rich get richer, cheaters get caught, and your neighbor usually looks like you   (Bloomsbury 2007)  socatom.pdf