Adaptation Adrenal gland Age distribution Aggressive instinct Aging Albinism Allergy Allometric growth Altruism Amino acids Amphioxus Anabiosis Anencephaly Animals and human obligations Antibiotics Anticholinesterases Antigens and antibodies Apes Aquaculture Archaeopteryx Aristotle Arthropods Atavism Bacteriophages Barnacles Behaviorism Bilharziasis Bioengineering Biogenesis Biology in medical education Blood and its circulation Cancer Carotid artery Cell theory Centrifuge Chance and randomness Chicken and egg Chimera Chordata Chromosomes Clones Comparative anatomy Contact inhibition Coronary artery Creationism Curare Cybernetics Definition of life and other terms Demography Design, argument from Down's syndrome Ecology Electrophoresis Embryonic axis Endocrine gland Enzymes Epithelium Errors of nature Ethology Eugenics Eukaryotes Euphenies Evidence of evolution Exogenetic heredity Fertility Figures of speech Fitness Force of mortality Form and mathematics Frauds Geneticism Genetic and embryologic terms Genius and insanity Germ layer theory Gondwanaland Great chain of being Group selection Growth, laws of biological Hierarchy Historicism Holism Homology Huntington's chorea Hypothalamus Hypothesis and theory Illness Immunity Immunologic surveillance Individuality Infertility and its remedies Instinct Interferon Invertebrata Irritability King crab Lamarckism Language Lemmings Life table Lungfish Lymphatics and lymph nodes Lymphocytes Lysenkoism Malaria Man's place in nature Meiosis Meme Metabolism Mimicry Missing links Mitochondria Mitosis Molecular biology Mollusca Monotremes Mules Myasthenia gravis Natural selection Nature and nurture Neo-Darwinism Neoteny Nerve gases Nerve impulses Nucleic acids Order in biology Orders of magnitude Origin of life Ornithology Parthenogenesis Phenylketonuria Piltdown skull Pineal body Poiesis Population growth and control Primates Proteins Protoplasm Protozoa Pterodactyls Recapitulation Reductionism Reflex Rhesus factor Sense organs Sessile animals Sexual cycles Sexuality Sickle-cell anemia Sociobiology Soma Specificity Spina bifida Spontaneous generation Spores Sweating Symbiosis Sympathetic nervous system Syphilis Taxon Teleology Teratology Terminology Thermoregulation Tissue culture and storage Toxins Transformations Transplantation
P. B. Medawar, an Oxford-trained biologist, received the 1960 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. J. S. Medawar was a biologist trained at the University of Oxford.
One of the most delightful, and delightfully eccentric,
dictionaries I have ever encountered… One can learn a tremendous
amount of modern biology from it.
*New York Times Book Review*
These little essays are beautifully written, trenchant, witty and
informative… Enjoy the lovely prose and the tough precise
intelligence… If a central informing theme is to be found in the
Medawars' dictionary, it is an appeal for a disciplined and
critical mind.
*Nature*
Two distinguished scientists have made sense of their specialty
instead of mystery. Entries on altruism, clones, and simple
sweating combine authority with humanity—and even wit.
*Los Angeles Times Book Review*
Aristotle to Zoos is a recommended introduction to the problems of
life science and their profound relevance to our daily lives. P. B.
and J. S. Medawar are masterful guides… The Medawars' work is a
model of scientific prose. It is written to delight and to
teach.
*The Bloomsbury Review*
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