McGraw-Hill Education Essentials of The Living World

A student favorite, this engaging text, now presented with a new single column format, is rich with student-oriented applications and illustrations that drive the learning. Written from scratch to be an appealing and accessible learning tool with an emphasis on "how things work and why things happen the way they do", this Essentials text features a straightforward, clear writing style with ample use of analogies to help students relate new material to familiar things. NEW digital assets for the 3rd edition include high interest video clips and animations of key biological concepts. Users who purchase Connect Plus receive access to the full online ebook version of the textbook. About the Author George B. Johnson, Ph.D., is a professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis and a professor of genetics at the university's School of Medicine. He is a prolific author of life science texts and curriculum products in a variety of media. New to his list of works are the Explorations of Human Biology CD-ROM and the textbook Human Biology, both offered by Wm. C. Brown Publishers. Johnson is acknowledged as an authority on population genetics and evolution variability, and he has published more than 50 research papers dealing with these and related topics. Visitors to the St. Louis Zoo can appreciate Johnson's work in the Living World, the educational center of which he is the founding director.