Biofundamentals 2.0

Our goal is to present the key observations andunifying concepts upon which modern biology isbased; it is not a survey of all biology! Onceunderstood/ these foundational observations andconcepts should enable you to approach any biologicalprocess/ from disease to kindness/ from a scientificperspective. To understand biological systems we need toconsider them from two complementary perspectives;how they came to be (the historic/ that is/ evolutionary) and how their structures/ traits/ and behaviors areproduced (the mechanistic/ that is/ the physicochemical).https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1293/thumbnail.jp