For many educators, the goals have shifted from communicating a great number of bits of information toward providing a deep understanding of fewer, but broader, principles. Luckily for anyone teaching or learning biology, opportunities to marvel at the natural world and the life within it abound.
Furthermore, nearly everyone realizes that the subject of biology has a significant impact on his or her own life through its connections to medicine, biotechnology, agriculture, environmental issues, forensics, and many other areas. Neil Campbell conceived of Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology as a tool to help teachers and students focus on the most important areas of biology. To that end, the book is organized into six core areas: cells, genes, evolution, ecology, animal physiology, and plant physiology.
We formulated our approach after countless conversations with teachers and students in which we noticed some important trends in how biology is taught. To help achieve these goals, every chapter of this book includes several important features. Fourth, the broad themes that unify all subjects within biology are explicitly called out in blue multiple times within each chapter. Thus, this unifying chapter thread ties together the pedagogical goals of the course, using a topic that is compelling and relevant to students.
This latest edition of Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology goes even further than previous editions to help students relate the material to their lives, understand the process of science, and appreciate how broad themes unify all aspects of biology.
A new approach to teaching the process of science. Conveying the process of science to nonscience-major undergraduate students is one of the most important goals of this course. Traditionally, we taught the scientific method as a predefined series of steps to be followed in an exact order observation, hypothesis, experiment, and so forth. Many instructors have shifted away from such a specific flow chart to a more nuanced approach that involves multiple pathways, frequent restarts, and other features that more accurately reflect how science is actually undertaken.
Accordingly, we have revised the way that the process of science is discussed within our text, both in Chapter 1 where the process is discussed in detail and in The Process of Science essay in every chapter of the textbook.
We believe that providing students with such critical-thinking tools is one of the most important outcomes of the nonscience-major introductory course. Major themes in biology incorporated throughout the book. In , the American Association for the Advancement of Science published a document that served as a call to action in undergraduate biology education.
In this edition of Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology , we repeatedly and explicitly link book content to themes multiple times in each chapter, calling out such instances with boldfaced blue text. For example, in Chapter 4 A Tour of the Cell , the interrelationships of cellular structures are used to illustrate the theme of interactions within biological systems. The plasma membrane is presented as an example of the relationship between structure and function.
The cellular structures in the pathway from DNA to protein are used to illustrate the importance of information flow. The chloroplasts and mitochondria serve as an example of the transformations of energy and matter. Students will find three to five examples of themes called out in each chapter, which will help them see the connections between these major themes and the course content.
To reinforce these connections, this edition of Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology includes new end-of-chapter questions and Mastering Biology activities that promote critical thinking relating to these themes. Accordingly, every chapter begins with an improved feature called Why It Matters showing the relevance of the chapter content from the very start. Additionally, with every edition, we introduce some new unifying chapter threads intended to improve student relevance.
For example, this edition includes new threads that discuss evolution in a human-dominated world Chapter 14 and the importance of biodiversity to human affairs Chapter Developing data literacy through infographics. Many nonscience-major students express anxiety when faced with numerical data, yet the ability to interpret data can help with many important decisions we all face. Primrack, R. Sinauer Associates, New York. Schmidly, D. Texas natural history: A century of change.
Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pullin, A. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reid, W. Ecology 43 2 —,— Primack RB Essentials of conservation biology , 6th edn. Redford KH The empty forest. BioScience — Arch Med Vet 30 1 — True to its title, the goal of this concise text is to provide an up-to-date, introductory view of essential themes in environmental science along with offering students numerous opportunities to practice scientific thinking and active Conservation biologists are by definition interested in the preservation of biodiversity.
Some fear that using their data to Principles of Conservation Biology , 2d ed. Arusha International Conference Centre, Arusha, Ramsar Primark RB Essentials of conservation biology , 4th edn.
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