Human Biology 15th By Sylvia Mader

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