Mahlon Hoagland

Bert Dodson

Judith Hauck

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! Dr. Mahlon Hoagland, Project Scientific Leader Dr. Mahlon Hoagland received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1948 and served on its faculty for 18 years. He was subsequently Director of the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research for 15 years. His main scientific contributions were in the area of protein biosynthesis, having discovered the mechanism of amino acid activation and, with P.C. Zamecnik, transfer RNA. He authored some 70 scientific papers, 5 books for the public (2 of which won the American Medical Writers Award) He won the Franklin Medal in 1976, was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and ended his career as Visiting Professor of Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School Bert Dodson, Graphics and Presentation Bert Dodson is a painter, teacher, author and illustrator. He has illustrated over 80 books for children. He has authored two books on drawing: Keys to Drawing (North Light, 1985), and Keys to Drawing with Imagination (North Light, 2006). In the 1980s he created the political comic strip, Nuke, which was published in two volumes, as Nuke; A Book of Cartoons (McFarland and Company, Jeffersonville, NC, 1988), and Nuke II; Another Book of Cartoons (1990). He co-authored, with the biologist, Mahlon Hoagland, The Way Life Works (Times Books, 1995), and Intimate Strangers; Unseen Life on Earth (ASM Press, 1999). He was animation designer for the four part PBS television series, Intimate Strangers (1998). He regularly exhibits his

watercolors and drawings. For several years he has been illustrating Opera Stories for Children, a series commissioned by The New York Metropolitan Opera. ! Judith Hoagland Hauck, Writing and Education Judith was a teacher of Special Education for 12 years, and has been a Developmental Editor of biology, cell biology, statistics, environmental science, astronomy, physics, chemistry and organic chemistry textbooks for the last 19 years. She is a co-author with Mahlon Hoagland and Bert Dodson of the textbook Exploring the Way Life Works. Judith received her undergraduate degree in French and Zoology from Mount Holyoke College, and her MAT from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also studied in the Critical and Creative Thinking in Science and Technology CAGS program at University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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Table of Contents
The Evolution of a New World View Further Evidence Supporting Natural Selection The Origins of Life A Brief History of Life Small Changes Add Up to Big Differences Writing Poetry Evolutions Way Even a Small Advantage Tends to Survive and Multiply Multiple Changes Variation and Selection Sex Why Do It? Mutations Evolutionary Breakthroughs Mobile Information
Doing ScienceJumping

Genes: Corn and Cold Spring Harbor

Viruses How New Species Arise Co-Evolution Can Habits Be Inherited?

Doing ScienceAn

Experiment in Evolution

Evidence of Relatedness The Evolution of Intelligence Cultural Evolution

Things you will learn about in this book

) ) ) ) Recombination) Segmentation) Selective)breeding) Selection) Sexual)reproduction) Species) Transposition) viruses) ) )

Adaptive)change) Archaea' Bacteriophages)(bacteria)eaters)) Cerebral)cortex) Chance) Common)ancestors) Conjugation) Cultural)evolution) Fossils) Gene)pools) Genealogical)trees) Genetics) Geographic)separation) Jumping)genes) Inheritance)of)acquired)characteristics) Lichens) Limbic)system) Lineage) Meiosis) Molecular)relatedness) Mutation) Natural)selection) Plasmids) RGcomplex) Radiocarbon)dating) ) ) ) ) ) )

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All the Books in This Series

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1
Patterns - An Overview of the Basic Concepts of Biology
The unity that underlies diversity. Science as an organized, accessible manifestation of human curiosity A panorama of sixteen of lifes key features

2 Energy - Light to Life

How living creatures transform energy, and how energy flows through organisms and through communities

3 DNA The Cells Library of Information

How the four-letter language of DNA spells out instructions for building millions of life forms

4 Proteins - Building the Machinery that Builds Life

How DNAs Instructions are transcribed into molecules of RNA and then translated into proteins

5 Feedback - Signaling, Sensing, Reacting

Homeostasis: how cells, organisms and communities regulate their internal environments

6 Community - E Pluribus Unum

How a cell diversifies into communities of specialized cells, organs, system feedback loops, and how individuals interact and organize

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Evolution The Source of Endless Variety
How the river of DNA information flows across generations, and how the information in DNA is sifted and sorted by cells and selected by environments
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