John E Bonner

Lives of a Biologist: Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science

Beginning with the discovery of genes on chromosomes and culminating with the unmasking of the most minute genetic mysteries, the twentieth century saw astounding and unprecedented progress in the science of biology. In an illustrious career that spanned most of the century, biologist John Bonner wi...

First Signals: The Evolution of Multicellular Development.

The enormous recent success of molecular developmental biology has yielded a vast amount of new information on the details of development. So much so that we risk losing sight of the underlying principles that apply to all development. To cut through this thicket, John Tyler Bonner ponders a moment ...

The Ideas of Biology (Dover Books on Biology)

"The great achievement of this book," observed the distinguished science writer Gerald Wendt, "is that it presents the basic concepts of biology in concise, lucid, orderly form and thus gradually and understandably transforms the miracle of life into a succession of miraculously simple processes." J...

Dark Days of Horror at Dozier Rapes, Murders, Beatings and Slavery: "Unfold at Dozier Reform School for Boys

Several African-American men are telling their stories of abuse they say they suffered at the infamous state-run Dozier Reform School in the Panhandle town of Marianna as boys." They said they were worked like slaves at the school. They worked on farms, raised livestock, planted and chopped sugarcan...

On Growth and Form

Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also beco...

Randomness in Evolution

John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology. In this concise, elegantly written book, he makes the bold and provocative claim that some biological diversity may be explained by something other than natural select...

The Social Amoebae: The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds

Noted biologist and author John Tyler Bonner has experimented with cellular slime molds for more than sixty years, and he has done more than anyone else to raise these peculiar collections of amoebae from a minor biological curiosity to a major model organism--one that is widely studied for clues to...

Qabalah: A Magical Primer

"Few books succeed as well as John Bonner's work in making the Qabalah accessible through a comprehensive overview of ... the Tree of Life." - From the Foreword While it began as a mystical interpretation of Jewish scriptural texts, today Qabalah is much more. As John Bonner writes in his introducti...

On Development: The Biology of Form

On Development: The Biology of Form

Human Resources Management in Real Estate

The Ideas of Biology

On Growth and Form

On Growth and Form

On Growth and Form

Lives of a Biologist: Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science

John Tyler Bner

John Tyler Bonner (born May 12, 1920) is an emeritus professor, now lecturer with the rank of professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ...