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Understanding Biology through Everyday Life: Exploring Life within Homes, Suburban Areas, and Urban Landscapes - Softcover

Yap, Chee Kong

 
9786209731358: Understanding Biology through Everyday Life: Exploring Life within Homes, Suburban Areas, and Urban Landscapes

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Understanding Biology through Everyday Life: From Our Homes to Suburban and Urban Environments presents biology not as a subject restricted to textbooks, laboratories, forests, or distant ecosystems, but as a living reality surrounding us every day. Through observations, experiences, and reflections, this book encourages readers to rediscover biology in ordinary places often overlooked in daily life. The book explores why humans cannot escape biology by connecting the human body, emotions, stress, and modern lifestyles with biological principles. It then moves into the hidden ecosystems within homes, revealing the unseen roles of microorganisms and biological processes involved in food changes, smells, and decay. The journey continues into suburban and urban environments where plants, birds, insects, and other organisms demonstrate adaptation and resilience within human-modified landscapes. Beyond scientific explanations, the book integrates personal reflections to show that biology is not merely a subject to study but a way of understanding life and the world around us.

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Dr. Chee Kong Yap is a full professor of biology and ecotoxicology at Universiti Putra Malaysia. He has authored over 470 publications, including 300 indexed in Scopus (May 2026). His research centres on intertidal molluscs as biomonitors of coastal pollution, with broad contributions to environmental biology and psychology, and planetary health.

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