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Biology, an authoritative text with a diverse author team, focuses on the process of evolution to explain biodiversity. The book emphasizes problem-solving and the scientific method in its approach to cutting-edge content. The use of historical and experimental approaches offers students not only a current view of the field, but more importantly, how it evolved. The authors have tried to keep as much historical context as possible and provide information within an experimental framework throughout the text.

Peter H. Raven, Ph.D., is director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Engelmann professor of botany at Washington University at St. Louis. He oversees the garden's internationally recognized research program in tropical botany--one of the world's most active in the study and conservation of imperiled tropical habitats. Raven's botanical research and work in the area of tropical conservation have earned him numerous honors and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship. He has written 17 textbooks and more than 400 articles, and he is a member of th National Academy of Science and the National Research Council.