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Current Issues in Biology, Volume 4

©2007 • Paper • 978-0-8053-3566-8 • 0-8053-3566-8

Give your students the best of both worlds—accessible, dynamic, relevant articles from Scientific American magazine that present key issues in biology, paired with the authority, reliability, and clarity of Pearson’s non-majors biology texts.


Articles include questions to help students check their comprehension and make connections to science and society. Available at no additional cost when packaged with a new text.


(Click here to download a correlation grid matching Volume 4 articles to the corresponding chapters in our nonmajors biology texts.)


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Current Issues in Biology, Volume 4
includes the following Scientific American articles:

  1. Preparing for a Pandemic
  2. CSI: Reality
  3. Founder Mutations
  4. Sustaining the Variety of Life
  5. His Brain, Her Brain
  6. Protecting More than Animals
  7. Buying Time in Suspended Animation

Current Issues PowerPoint® Presentations

PowerPoint® presentations for each article in Current Issues in Biology feature questions you can use to easily incorporate discussion of current issues into your classroom! They are available in the instructor media package accompanying your text. They can also be accessed by logging into the Pearson Instructor Resource Center and searching under ISBN 0321586352. For more details, please contact your Pearson representative.