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Biological Rhythms

by Daniel B. Forger

ISBN: 9780262553148

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 9, 2025

The secret language of your vital signs—and how to read and understand it.

Bird Brains and Behavior

A Synthesis

by Georg Striedter and Andrew Iwaniuk

ISBN: 9780262552738

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 5, 2025

Forthcoming from the MIT Press

Principles of Biological Autonomy, a new annotated edition

Principles of Biological Autonomy

by Francisco J. Varela

Foreword by Amy Cohen Varela

Edited by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo and Evan Thompson

ISBN: 9780262551403

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 13, 2025

A new, updated edition of the 1979 classic from one of the foremost authors in cognitive science and theoretical biology, with the original text as well as more than 200 citations to current scientific developments.

Feminism in the Wild

How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior

by Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer

ISBN: 9780262049634

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 11, 2025

How dominant culture—from sexism and homophobia to racism, capitalism, ableism, and more—has limited the science of animal behavior, and how we can free ourselves from these limited perspectives.

Laws of Human Behavior

Steps Toward Hard Science

by Donald Pfaff and Sandra Sherman

ISBN: 9780262550895

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 4, 2025

How scientific studies of human behavior can be replicated with the consistency and rigor characteristic of the physical sciences, yielding scientific “laws.”

Gain of Function

by Nicholas G. Evans

ISBN: 9780262551359

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 25, 2025

How a small number of risky experiments creates many unwieldy problems for life science research.

Mathematics in Biology

by Markus Meister, Kyu Hyun Lee and Ruben Portugues

ISBN: 9780262049405

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 18, 2025

A concise but rigorous textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students across the biological sciences that provides a foundation for understanding the methods used in quantitative biology.