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The Serengeti rules : the quest to discover how life works and why it matters / Sean B. Carroll.

by Carroll, Sean B.

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Princeton University Press, [2016]

Biological control systems.

Nature -- Effect of human beings on.

Serengeti National Park (Tanzania) -- Anecdotes.

9780691167428 (hc.)

263 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Miracles and wonder -- I. Everything is regulated. 1. The wisdom of the body ; 2. The economy of nature -- II. The logic of life. 3. General rules of regulation ; 4. Fat, feedback, and a miracle fungus ; 5. Stuck accelerators and broken brakes -- III. The Serengeti rules. 6. Some animals are more equal than others ; 7. Serengeti logic ; 8. Another kind of cancer ; 9. Take 60 million walleye and call us in 10 years ; 10. Resurrection -- Afterword: Rules to live by.

How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? Biologist Sean Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answers to such simple yet profoundly important questions. In the natural world everything is regulated - there are rules that regulate the amount of every molecule in our bodies and rules that govern the numbers of every animal and plant in the wild. And the most surprising revelation about the rules that regulate life at such different scales is that they are remarkably similar. Our deep knowledge of the rules and logic of the human body has spurred the advent of revolutionary life-saving medicines, and makes the compelling case that it is now time to use the Serengeti Rules to heal our ailing planet.

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