Human Biology 15th By Sylvia Mader
Print ISBN: 9781259689796, 1259689794
eText ISBN: 9781259933646, 1259933644
By: Sylvia Mader
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Print ISBN: 9781259689796, 1259689794
eText ISBN: 9781259933646, 1259933644
Edition: 15th
Copyright year: 2018
About the Authors
Sylvia S. Mader Sylvia S. Mader has authored several nationally recognized biology texts published
by McGraw-Hill. Educated at Bryn Mawr College, Harvard University, Tufts University, and Nova
Southeastern University, she holds degrees in both Biology and Education. Over the years she has taught at
University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Massachusetts Bay Community College; Suffolk University; and
Nathan Mayhew Seminars. Her ability to reach out to science-shy students led to the writing of her first text,
Inquiry into Life, that is now in its fourteenth edition. Highly acclaimed for her crisp and entertaining writing
style, her books have become models for others who write in the field of biology.
Dr. Mader enjoys taking time to visit and explore the various ecosystems of the biosphere. Her several
trips to the Florida Everglades and Caribbean coral reefs resulted in talks she has given to various groups
around the country. She has visited the tundra in Alaska, the taiga in the Canadian Rockies, the Sonoran
Desert in Arizona, and tropical rain forests in South America and Australia. A photo safari to the Serengeti in
Kenya resulted in a number of photographs for her texts. She was thrilled to think of walking in Darwin’s footsteps when she journeyed to
the Galápagos Islands with a group of biology educators. Dr. Mader was also a member of a group of biology educators who traveled to
China to meet with their Chinese counterparts and exchange ideas about the teaching of modern-day biology.
Michael Windelspecht As an educator, Dr. Windelspecht has taught introductory biology, genetics,
and human genetics in the online, traditional, and hybrid environments at community colleges, comprehensive
universities, and military institutions. For over a decade he served as the Introductory Biology Coordinator
at Appalachian State University, where he directed a program that enrolled over 4,500 students annually.
He received degrees from Michigan State University (BS, zoology-genetics) and the University of South
Florida (PhD, evolutionary genetics) and has published papers in areas as diverse as science education,
water quality, and the evolution of insecticide resistance. His current interests are in the analysis of data from
digital learning platforms for the development of personalized microlearning assets and next generation
publication platforms. He is currently a member of the National Association of Science Writers and several
science education associations. He has served as the keynote speaker on the development of multimedia
resources for online and hybrid science classrooms. In 2015 he won the DevLearn HyperDrive competition
for a strategy to integrate student data into the textbook revision process.
As an author and editor, Dr. Windelspecht has over 20 reference textbooks and multiple print and online lab manuals. He has founded
several science communication companies, including Ricochet Creative Productions, which actively develops and assesses new
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