検索キーワード： 生物学

私たちはなぜ眠り、起きるのか？長い間、生物は「脳を休めるために眠る」と考えられてきた。それは本当なのだろうか。新発見！脳をもたない生物ヒドラも眠る――。

『土　地球最後のナゾ』で河合隼雄賞受賞を受賞した著者による、書下ろし最新作！〔前書きより〕「土とは何なのか？」「なぜ生命や土を作ることができないのか？」という本質的な問いをあいまいなままにしておくことはできない。

Join Stephen Fry for the greatest story on Earth: the story of life itself. A twelve-part exploration of the incredible diversity of living beings on our planet. Our journey starts four billion years ago with the earliest signs of life deep in the ocean. Along the way it will take in Earth’s extraordinary range of life forms, from microbes to invertebrates, birds, amphibians, mammals and humanity itself.

昆虫界を震撼させた伝説の名著、復刊。身近な自然を舞台に、奇怪な人間が奇怪な虫の謎を解く。異常なまでに虫を愛する姿から「裏山の奇人」と綽名される著者。長野の裏山で13年間、誰も気に留めないような小虫を観察・研究し、数々の新発見を成し遂げた。

最初から、心なんてものは存在しない！？Q、悲しいから泣くのか、泣くから悲しいのか？日常生活を送っていると、「わたしであってわたしでない判断、行動をしている自分」を感じるときがあるかもしれません。

★進化思考──それは、生物の進化のように二つのプロセス(変異と適応)を繰り返すことで、本来だれの中にもある創造性を発揮する思考法。

人気の「知識ゼロ」シリーズ第７弾! オールカラー＆イラスト図解で、知識ゼロから楽しく人体のしくみがわかります。

人はまちがえる。それは、どんなにがんばっても、脳がまちがいを生み出すような情報処理を行っているから。

First published more than 50 years ago, this award-winning classic brings Rachel Carson's unique vision to a new generation of listeners. The Sense of Wonder is Carson's intimate account of adventures with her young nephew, Roger, as they enjoy walks along the rocky coast of Maine and through dense forests and open fields, observing wildlife, strange plants, moonlight, and storm clouds, and listening to the "living music" of insects in the underbrush.

Sir Paul Nurse is one of Britain's greatest living scientists. Here he invites listeners on a journey of discovery of biology's five great building blocks including The Cell, The Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, Life as Information and then an inspiring piece on how we can change the world with this knowledge. Accessible and easy to listen to, Paul's engaging, personal tone will make listeners light up with excitement as they learn how all living beings are connected.

Qué son las superbacterias y por qué no estamos preparados para afrontarlas La resistencia a los antibióticos: la pandemia silenciosa a la que nos enfrentamos A lo largo de nuestra existencia los humanos hemos librado una batalla, a menudo a muerte, contra las bacterias. Enfermedades tan...

Un ensayo clarificador sobre las diferentes consecuencias que la evolución ha tenido en mujeres y hombres. Este libro fascinante se adentra en el concepto del sexo desde un punto de vista evolutivo y netamente femenino. El gran invento que fue la reproducción sexual supuso el tributo, en el...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Blueprint, written and read by Robert Plomin. The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1 percent of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, even whether we are a morning person - all of these aspects of our personality are profoundly shaped by our inherited DNA differences. 

In the best-selling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological makeup.

This classic work on the rules of sex -- updated for a new generation -- is still as provocative as the day it was published, providing simple explanations for any and all questions about what happens in the bedroom. Sex isn't as complicated as we make it. In Sperm Wars, evolutionary biologist...

The immersive deep dive into your immune system from the brains behind the most popular science channel on YouTube, KURZGESAGT - IN A NUTSHELL. Narrated by Steve Taylor, the unforgettable voice of Kurzgesagt videos. You wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You're mildly...

There is no one better qualified than Jared Diamond - renowned expert in the fields of physiology and evolutionary biology and award-winning author - to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us sexually different. With wit and a wealth of fascinating examples, he explains how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture in our rise to human status. 

More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science.

The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies, and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a solution to conundrums that have puzzled generations of scientists.

A deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell “Through wonderful analogies and a genius for clarifying complex ideas, Immune is a truly brilliant introduction to...