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Grays Anatomy 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 and long-term usefullness. Species Plantarum Importance Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence Variation and Evolution in Plants Molecular Biology of the Cell Description: . This is a must-have introduction to cell biology, suitable for both undergraduates as well as for graduate students. The book covers a wide range of concepts, spanning from the internal organization of cells and molecular genetics - to cellular functions in the larger context of the organism. For beginners, it serves as an excellent introduction to the field of cell and molecular biology. Graduate students and post-graduates may furthermore use this book for refreshing their memory on basic biological principles. Online version. Importance: Introduction. Genomic Regulatory Systems: Development and Evolution 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 Systems Developmental Biology 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 Description An alternative approach to dynamical systems theory. Describes a new paradigm for understanding genomes in the development of organisms. Competitive exclusion Description: In this book Gause establishes 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. The end result is always the extinction of the less fit species. Importance: Topic creator, breakthrough. 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 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. 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 fundamentaly 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. History of Insects Importance: By a leader in the paleotology of insects. Souvenirs entomologiques Description: Fabre investigated insects, both at the anatomical level and the behavioral level. Histoire Naturelle 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 Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type Description: This publication suggested natural selection as the cause of evolution. Wallace was afraid to publish his work due to the church but he sent it to Charles Darwin and help him develop what is somewhat mistakenly called today Darwinism. Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact The Origin of Species Description: The Origin of Species is one of the hallmark works of biology. In it, Darwin details his theory that organisms gradually evolve through natural selection. It was first published on November 24, 1859 and immediately sold out its initial print run. Darwin presents a theory of evolution that is in most aspects identical to the theories now accepted by scientists. He carefully argues out this theory of evolution of species by natural selection by presenting all the accumulated scientific evidence from his voyage on the HMS ''Beagle'' in the 1830s. Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection Description: This book discusses Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection Importance: Impact--this has been the basis for population genetics. The Evolution of Individuality 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 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 Experiments on Plant Hybridization 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 DNA Sequencing with Chain-Terminating Inhibitors Description: The basis of the DNA sequencing technique. (Sanger won his second Nobel prize thanks to it). Importance: Breakthrough, Impact Molecular Cloning : A Laboratory Manual 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 Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth Description: A very readable yet complete introduction to the early evolution of life. Importance: Introduction. Phylogenetic Systematics 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 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 Description: Intended for biologists interested in the mathematical theory behind phylogenetic methods, and for mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists eager to learn about this emerging area of discrete mathematics. Importance: A useful monograph on the mathematics of phylogenetic methods. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis 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: The Meaning of Systems Biology Description: A brief justification for systems biology. Importance: Systema Naturae Importance: Impact 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 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 Description: In these letters, White published his observations on birds near his house. Importance: Impact See also | |||||||
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