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The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters - With a new Q&A with the author
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About The Serengeti Rules: The Quest To Discover How Life
Review "One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Science Books of 2016""One of Nature.com’s Top 20 Books for 2016""Shortlisted for the 2017 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science""In The Serengeti Rules, the author goes from E. coli to elephants to lay out the basic rules that shape so much of what's around us and inside us."---Brian Switek, Wall Street Journal"In this remarkably engaging book, Carroll . . . persuasively argues that life at all levels of complexity is self-regulated, from the inner workings of cells to the larger relationships governing the Serengeti ecosystem. . . . Carroll superbly animates biological principles while providing important insights." ― Publishers Weekly"The Serengeti Rules is one of the best biology books for general readers I've ever encountered. It should be required reading for every college student, regardless of major."---Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard University, "A compelling read filled with big, bold ideas." ― Nature"A thought-provoking challenge to complacency." ― Kirkus"Carroll's book is fantastic, a success story in going form the specific to the general. It helps that Carroll is a gifted writer, captivating and thoughtful, and highly respectful of the reader. Carroll brings in the history of thought and research in the relevant areas of physiology, ecology etc. His messages are framed in the larger context of the Earth's overall health and important environmental issues. He links the subject matter to key central themes in biological theory (such as natural selection and evolution). And this is all done very well. You've seen the synthetic overviews of life and evolution framed in chaos theory, complexity theory, even quantum physics. This is better. This is a book to give to your favorite biology teacher (high school or college), and that teacher will take from it examples, connections, lessons, ways of telling, that will enrich their teaching immeasurably."---Greg Laden, ScienceBlog"[A]s a subject for popular science, regulation seems to fail the thrill test; genetics and neuroscience appear more alluring. Now Sean B. Carroll. . . . Has risen to the challenge with this wonderful book about the natural control of numbers in living systems. Carroll is one of the top storytellers in contemporary science, as his previous writings about evolutionary biology have shown. Here he uses his narrative skills to take us on a scientific journey through time and space--making his case through the work of researchers around the world who have built up rules of life over the past century. . . . [The Serengeti Rules] is wholeheartedly recommended for its entertaining view of biology from an original perspective."---Clive Cookson, Financial Times"[A] deep journey into the rules of life on Earth. . . . By introducing us to the great pioneers of molecular biology, like Jacques Monod (enzyme regulation), Akira Endo (lovastatin developer) and Janet Rowley (cancer and inheritance of genetic diseases), Carroll sets the reader up with a strong foundation in the natural processes that go on within our own bodies, and describes how breakthroughs happen, such as the discovery of ‘repressors' and ‘suppressors,' (which act, not by ‘doing things,' but by preventing things), and double-negative regulatory logic. We also learn what happens when these mechanisms fail."---Cathy Taibbi, Examiner.com, "Carroll is both a distinguished scientist. . . and one of our great science writers. . . . [The Serengeti Rules] is a visionary book, which celebrates the new wisdom and the men and women who have brought the vision to pass." ― Guardian"Sean Carroll's new book, with his thesis that everything is regulated backed by stories of discovery and inquiry, will enhance the way I teach biology. I am convinced that The Serengeti Rules should be required reading for students in all fields of science, but especially those pursuing careers in biology education."---Paul K. Strode, American Biology Teacher"This book offers hope that we can mak
