Award winning teacher Michael D. Johnson catches your interest immediately by connecting basic biology concepts to real world issues that are relevant to your life. Through a storytelling approach and extensive online support, Human Biology: Concepts and Current Issues, Sixth Edition not only demystifies how the human body works but helps you to become a better consumer of health and science information.
Each chapter now opens with Johnson's popular "Current Issue" essays, and inside each chapter are entries from the author's own, frequently updated blog. Expanded online resources are now available and conveniently referenced in chapter sections with icons and URLs. The Sixth Edition also offers you stronger self assessment tools, with new and expanded critical thinking questions throughout each chapter and in the end of chapter reviews.
1. Human biology, science, and society
2. The chemistry of living things
3. Structure and function of cells
4. From cells to organ systems
5. The skeletal system
6. The muscular system
7. Blood
8. Heart and blood vessels
9. The lmmune system and mechanisms of defense
10. The respiratory system : exchange of gases
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