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This book contains a series of authoritative chapters written by top names in conservation biology with the aim of disseminating cutting-edge conservation knowledge as widely as possible. Important topics such as balancing conversion and human needs, climate change, conservation planning, designing and analyzing conservation research, ecosystem services, endangered species management, extinctions, fire, habitat loss, and invasive species are covered. Numerous textboxes describing additional relevant material or case studies are also included.

The list below shows examples of textbooks that meet the curricular requirements of AP Biology. The list is not exhaustive and the texts listed should not be regarded as endorsed, authorized, recommended, or approved by College Board. Not using a book from this list does not mean that a course will not receive authorization. Syllabi submitted as part of the AP Course Audit process will be evaluated holistically, with textbooks considered along with supplementary, supporting resources to confirm that the course as a whole provides students with the content delineated in the curricular requirements of the AP Course Audit.

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The specified editions of the following textbooks meet the AP Biology resource requirement. Earlier editions of these textbooks or other textbooks not listed here may meet the AP curricular requirements if published within the last 10 years. While every effort is made to keep this list current, it can take a few months for newly published titles and revised editions to be reviewed.

The purpose of this study was to examine the educational impact of an intervention, the inquiry-focused textbook Integrating Concepts in Biology (ICB), when used in a yearlong introductory biology course sequence. Student learning was evaluated using three published instruments: 1) The Biology Concept Inventory probed depth of student mastery of fundamental concepts in organismal and cellular topics when confronting misconceptions as distractors. ICB students had higher gains in all six topic categories (+43% vs. peers overall, p

A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems (usually referred to as just Civic Biology) was a biology textbook written by George William Hunter, published in 1914. It is the book which the state of Tennessee required high school teachers to use in 1925 and is best known for its section about evolution that was ruled by a local court to be in violation of the state Butler Act. It was for teaching from this textbook that John T. Scopes was brought to trial in Dayton, Tennessee in the Scopes "Monkey" Trial. The views espoused in the book about evolution, race, and eugenics were common to American Progressives (especially in the work of Charles Benedict Davenport, one of the most prominent American biologists of the early 20th century, whom Hunter cites in the book).

Hunter was born in Mamaroneck, New York, and was educated at Williams College, the University of Chicago, and New York University, where he obtained his doctorate.[1] He later became chairman of the biology department at his alma mater, De Witt Clinton High School, a public secondary school for boys in Manhattan. During his time at Clinton, he wrote or co-authored 30 textbooks for college and high school biology courses, including Civic Biology in 1905. By working with educators at Columbia University's Teachers College and the geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan, Hunter developed Civic Biology, a textbook that shaped the modern secondary-school biology curriculum.[2]

In the first edition of Civic Biology, Hunter briefly discusses eugenics on one page of the 432 page textbook. Along with many other evolutionary biologists, Hunter embraced the idea of eugenics as a social doctrine. It was a popular idea in the early 20th century, and several states had enacted laws to compel the sexual segregation and sterilization of people deemed eugenically unfit.[3] Hunter believed that society could perfect the human race by preventing intermarriage between people such as the mentally ill, criminals, and epileptics. He also believed that the Caucasian race was the highest type of all the races.[4]

Charles Darwin had published his evolutionary theories 60 years before the public controversy over Civic Biology with the Scopes Trial. Prior to the Scopes Trial and controversy over Civic Biology, most science textbooks included Darwinian concepts in order to keep abreast with prevalent scientific ideas. In the early 20th century, there was a movement in the education sector to bring evolution into high school classrooms, in order to update and reshape how biology was taught. Once evolution began being taught in high schools, controversy over Darwin's theories developed.[5] These efforts tried to incorporate progressive educational ideologies and apply the biological sciences to human society.[6]

Civic Biology was an example of the new approaches to scientific instruction emerging in the education sector.[7] This modern education focused on applying scientific principles to human society by developing applicable and relevant content for students.[8] This movement towards socially applicable biology was coupled with national efforts towards mandatory public education. Anti-evolution efforts and legislation were responding to the redesigned ideologies in the new biology curricula, and also to the centralized control and regulation of education. Concerns about public and standardized education were part of the public debate over Civic Biology.[9]

The Scopes Trial, with its controversy over Civic Biology, was a major setback for anti-evolution groups because of the 15 states with anti-evolution legislation pending in 1925, only 2 enacted laws restricting the teaching of Darwin's evolutionary theories.[19] While this public controversy had some political implications, it was not extensively influential in the education sector and the instruction of the biological sciences. During the 1970s, it was believed that pressure from Christian fundamentalists after the Scopes Trial forced textbook authors to limit the discussion of evolution.[20] However, upon later examination of biology textbooks, scholars determined that textbook authors worked to develop biological curricula that differentiated and defended its content, in an attempt to reduce the influence of religious fundamentalism on the biological sciences. As a result, modern scholars now believe that overall, biology textbooks were not heavily influenced by anti-evolution rhetoric after the Scopes Trial.[21]

While biology textbooks did not yield heavy influence from the Scopes Trial, some laws emerged that affected high school teachers. After the Scopes Trial, many teachers, particularly in the South, were then required to take oaths of loyalty. These oaths centered upon restricting instructors to teaching content that did not contradict traditionalist ideologies.[22]

Some of the happiest times of my life were when I was at university. As an avid reader, I often purchased my textbooks as soon as they became available so I could sit in a local coffee shop and read them at my leisure prior to the start of classes. But despite my excitement, I also was frustrated. As I see it, there are three big problems with textbooks: they're bloody expensive, they're back-breakingly big and heavy, and they're out-of-date five minutes after they've cleared the publisher's warehouse. All of these frustrations go double for science textbooks.

As a budding biologist, I was disturbed by imagining old-growth forests being flattened into massive clear-cuts just so I could bike to campus every day with a mountain of new (but out-of-date) textbooks on my back. It saddened me to know that such rampant environmental destruction loomed so ominously over my noble educational and life goals.

But I just learned that a new university-level introductory biology textbook is being published that college and university students can purchase for just $49 -- compare this to the average university-level introductory biology textbooks that currently retail for $150 or more, with used texts typically selling for $70 and up.

It's digital! This means no more back-breaking treks to campus with a monstrous rucksack hanging off your back (that's a "backpack" to you Americans). This digital textbook, Principles of Biology, will be online -- no more DVDs to lose, and nothing to clog up your hard drive. It will be accessible from a desktop or laptop computer, iPads, tablet computers or even from a smartphone. Because it relies on a standard web browser format and is hosted on a cloud computer, this text will always be available and accessible. Further, this allows disabled students to also use this book because their web browser tools will have already been configured specifically to meet their needs.

Like all biology textbooks, Principles of Biology includes hundreds of stunning diagrammes and photographs (a few examples are sprinkled around here) but without the tremendous expense and intensive efforts of having the colour adjusted for the printing process.

"I believe we're moving into an age when textbooks can be lifelong tools, rather than short-lived supplies for one college class," said Vikram Savkar, Vice President & Publishing Director at Nature Publishing Group.

Principles of Biology is a collaborative effort between Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and California State University system (CSU) and already, it has been selected as the main introductory biology textbook for the next three years at CSU's Los Angeles, Chico, and Northridge campuses. Since this book is a collaborative effort, it includes -- my favourite feature -- a Research Paper library that contains more than 100 classic papers from NPG journals along with "translations" for students who are learning how to read the primary literature.

For those of you who wish to increase your upper body strength by carrying around heavy textbooks, you can print out a full-colour tree-killing version of this textbook, either in small portions or in full. Those of you studying other subjects are probably bummed out to learn that you'll still be stuck having to get pack animals to haul your books around for you, but take heart! Plans are already in the works to digitize more introductory science texts, probably starting with physics and chemistry. 2351a5e196