Human Biology

Key differences between 14th and 13th editions

• Time lapse between current and previous editions: 2 years (2015 vs 2013).
• The First edition of Sylvia S. Mader's Human Biology was published in 1988.
• New material in the Fourteenth Ed:
• Chapter 1: Exobiology (also called astrobiology), the branch of science investigating the life in space.
• Chapter 2: Illustration of the nucleotide structure.
• Chapter 5: Science in your life box on safety of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.
• New Chapter 8 "Biology of Infectious Diseases" includes information about bacteria, viruses, infectious diseases, and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (a viral respiratory infection).
• Chapter 19:
• Picture comparing meiosis I and meiosis II.
• Material on gametogenesis (spermatogenesis and oogenesis) in the section 19.4.
• Illustration of chromosomal non-disjunction.
• Chapter 22: Illustrations of DNA translation and semi-conservative replication.
• Chapter 23:
• Latest discoveries in human evolution.
• Picture of migration patterns of early humans.
• Chapter 24: New illustration of the major terrestrial biomes in the world.
• Chapter 25: Science feature on wildlife conservation and DNA analysis.