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The Serengeti Rules

The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters

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The Serengeti Rules

By: Sean B. Carroll
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
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How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean B. Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answers to such simple yet profoundly important questions, and shows how their discoveries matter for our health and the health of the planet we depend upon. One of the most important revelations about the natural world is that everything is regulated - there are rules that regulate the amount of every molecule in our bodies and rules that govern the numbers of every animal and plant in the wild. And the most surprising revelation about the rules that regulate life at such different scales is that they are remarkably similar - there is a common underlying logic of life. Carroll recounts how our deep knowledge of the rules and logic of the human body has spurred the advent of revolutionary life-saving medicines, and makes the compelling case that it is now time to use the Serengeti Rules to heal our ailing planet.

©2016 Sean B. Carroll (P)2017 Tantor Nature & Ecology Biological Sciences Evolution & Genetics Science Biology Ecology Evolution Health Medicine

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"A thought-provoking challenge to complacency." ( Kirkus)
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This is a very well written and sweeping overview outlining some of the recurring themes guiding biological nature, from the level of molecular biology, extending to analogous processes of large-scale ecology.

A compelling perspective on the "laws" of biology.

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The book is very fascinating. It is unusual as it combines nature preservation and medicine, subjects that usually are not discussed hand in hand. Great read.

Full of surprises

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A very good, clear read that answered many questions I had. I recomend it much.

indispensable for our future.

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The insights and analogies between the workings of human body at the molecular level and how nature works in the ecology of the world outside the the body are simply beautiful. These ideas hint at what Einstein was looking for at the end of his life - a one inch equation that governs life.

The narrator is too much in your face and and tires the listener.

Extremely interesting in most chapters -

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goes right along with ecology units for biology or environmental science. hits the discovering of keystone species, trophic Cascade, carrying capacity, etc.

great ecology book

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