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This is a list of important
publications in
biology, organized by
field.
Some reasons why a
particular publication might
be regarded as important:
- Topic creator A
publication that created a
new topic
- Breakthrough A
publication that changed
scientific knowledge
significantly
- Introduction A
publication that is a good
introduction or survey of a
topic
- Influence A
publication which has
significantly influenced the
world
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Description: Henry
Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body,
commonly known as Gray's
Anatomy, is an anatomy
textbook widely regarded as a
classic work on
human anatomy. The book was
first published under the title
Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and
Surgical in
Great Britain in
1858, and the following year
in the
United States. The book's
British author died after the
publication of the
1860 second edition, at the
age of 34, but his much-praised
book was continued by others and
on
November 24,
2004, the 39th British edition
was released.
Importance: Influence
Molecular Biology of the
Cell
- Alberts, Bruce; Johnson,
Alexander; Lewis, Julian; Raff,
Martin; Roberts, Keith; Walter,
Peter
- New York,
Garland Publishing
- 1983-2002
Description: . This is a
must-have introduction to cell
biology, suitable for both
undergraduates as well as for
graduate students. The book covers
a wide range of concepts, spanning
from the internal organization of
cells and molecular genetics - to
cellular functions in the larger
context of the organism. For
beginners, it serves as an
excellent introduction to the
field of cell and molecular
biology. Graduate students and
post-graduates may furthermore use
this book for refreshing their
memory on basic biological
principles.
Importance:
Introduction.
Genomic Regulatory Systems:
Development and Evolution
- E. H. Davidson
- Genomic Regulatory Systems:
Development and Evolution
(Academic Press, San Diego, CA,
2001).
Description An important
work based on a lifetime of solid
research in developmental biology.
The book is unique because it
attempts to give a semi formal
theory of regulatory networks as
the basis of developmental
biology.
Importance: Impact
In silico multicellular
systems biology and minimal
genomes
- E. Werner
- Drug Discovery Today, Volume
8, Issue 24, 15 December 2003,
Pages 1121-1127
-
Online version
Description This article
presents a new paradigm for
understanding multicellular
development of organisms. It
combines in vivo methods
with in silico methods
using minimal genomes for
multicellular systems. While the
article is futuristic, its vision
may well dominate future research.
It is the next step based on
research on minimal genomes for
single cell organisms.
Importance: Impact
Description: This book
is based on the author two years
of living near lake Walden.
Thoreau summaries in the book his
observations and offers
information about the history of
nature investigation. Thoreau
offers a unique attitude to nature
preservation.
Importance: Impact
Description: Until the
publication of this encyclopedia
the scientific community thought
that all animals were created
together by
God before about 6,000 years.
Not only that this 44 volume
encyclopedia contained all
biological knowledge of its time,
it offered different theory. 100
years before Darwin, Buffon
claimed that man and ape might
have a common ancestor. His work
also had significant impact on
ecology.
Importance: Topic
creator, Breakthrough, Impact
Description: This
publication suggested
natural selection as the cause
of
evolution. Wallace was afraid
to publish his work due to the
church but he sent it to
Charles Darwin and help him
develop what is somewhat
mistakenly called today
Darwinism.
Importance: Topic
creator, Breakthrough, Impact
Description: The Origin
of Species is one of the hallmark
works of
biology. In it, Darwin details
his
theory that
organisms gradually
evolve through
natural selection. It was
first published on
November 24,
1859 and immediately sold out
its initial print run. Darwin
presents a
theory of evolution that is in
most aspects identical to the
theories now accepted by
scientists. He carefully argues
out this theory of
evolution of
species by
natural selection by
presenting all the accumulated
scientific evidence from his
voyage on the
HMS Beagle in the
1830s.
Importance: Topic
creator, Breakthrough, Impact
Description: This book
discusses
Fisher's fundamental theorem of
natural selection
Importance: Impact
The Evolution of
Individuality
-
Leo W. Buss
- 1987, The Evolution of
Individuality, Princeton
University Press.
Description: In his book
that examines the cell lineage as
a unit of selection, Leo Buss
addresses the evolutionary
conflict between the individuality
of cells that make up a metazoan
and the metazoan individual
itself. In elaborating this idea
he presents numerous hypotheses
regarding the evolution of animal
development and life cycles. He
wraps it up by addressing
hierarchical organization in
biology. It is one of the first
texts addressing the idea of the
individual in biology, integrating
multilevel selection theory (from
the macroevolutionists and gene
selectionists) with developmental
and cell biology. Though heavy on
the theory and rather light on the
evidence, for anyone interested in
evo-devo or macroevolution this
should be an essential read.
Importance: Topic
creator.
Description: Experiments
on Plant Hybridization was the
result after years spent studying
genetic traits in pea plants.
In his paper, Mendel compared
seven discrete traits. Through
experimentation, Mendel discovered
that one inheritable trait would
invariably be dominant to its
recessive alternative. This model,
later known as
Mendelian inheritance or
Mendelian genetics, provided an
alternative to blending
inheritance, which was the
prevailing theory at the time.
Importance: Topic
creator, Breakthrough, Impact
Forel, F.-A. 1892-1902. Le
L้man, monegraphie limnologique.
Editions Rouges & Cie, Lausanne,
Translation D. A.
Description: The
structure of the
DNA molecule discovery.
Importance: Topic
creator, Breakthrough, Impact
Description: The basis
of the
DNA sequencing technique.
Importance:
Breakthrough, Impact
Description: The manual
(to which is often referred simply
as the Maniatis) is
universally recognized as the best
manual for molecular biology
techniques. The theory behind the
techniques is also discussed in
details. It is cited by thousands
of publications.
Importance: Impact
-
David H. Hubel and
Torsten Wiesel (1962)
"Receptive fields,, binocular
interaction and functional
architecture in the
cat's
visual cortex". Journal
of Physiology 160,
106-154.
- "Neuroscience" -- Dale
Purves
- "Vision Science: Photons to
Phenomenology" -- Stephen E.
Palmer
Phylogenetic Systematics
Description: This book
popularized the techniques of
cladistics in the
English-speaking world. It is
based on work published in German
starting 1950.
Willi Hennig is considered the
founder of clasdistics, which he
developed while working as an
entomologist in East Germany.
Importance:
Inferring Phylogenies
- Joseph Felsenstein
- Sinauer Associates, 2003.
Description: An
excellent technical manual to
guide any biologist wishing to
construct a phylogenetic
hypothesis.
Importance:
Description: Wilson
introduced the term
sociobiology as an attempt to
explain the
evolutionary mechanics behind
social behaviors such as
altruism,
aggression, and nurturance.
Wilson's book sparked one of the
great scientific
controversies in biology of
the
20th century.
Importnace:
The Myth of Mental Illness:
Foundations of a Theory of
Personal Conduct
Description: The
Myth of Mental Illness:
Foundations of a Theory of
Personal Conduct is a
controversial book by
Thomas Szasz. It is highly
influential in the
anti-psychiatry movement. In
it, Szasz argues that
mental illness is a
social construct created by
doctors. What
psychiatrists label mental
illness is in fact a deviation
from the
consensus reality, Szasz says.
The book extends the arguments
of Szasz's paper The Myth of
Mental Illness, first
published in
1960. In it, Szasz argues that
beliefs cannot be caused by
brain disease, although such
artifacts as visual defects can.
Importance:
Tracking an object through
feature space
- Blaser E, Pylyshyn ZW,
Holcombe AO.
- Tracking an object through
feature space. Nature. 2000 Nov
9;408(6809):196-9.
Description:
Importnace:
The organization of
behavior
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Perception of shape from
shading
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Phantoms in the Brain
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