Innovative, authoritative, and captivating - Life is the most balanced experimentally-based biology text available. It offers an engaging and coherent presentation of the fundamentals of biology by describing the landmark experiments that revealed them.
The ninth edition remains at the cutting edge of the subject through new authorship, new experimental content, more real-life examples, enhanced art, and new media tools. It also contains three new chapters on increasingly important topics: Nucleic Acids and the Origin of Life, Genomes, and Interaction Ecology.