Biology 2e is designed to cover the scope and sequence requirements of a typical two-semester biology course for science majors. The text provides comprehensive coverage of foundational research and core biology concepts through an evolutionary lens. Biology includes rich features that engage students in scientific inquiry, highlight careers in the biological sciences, and offer everyday applications. The book also includes various types of practice and homework questions that help students understand—and apply—key concepts. The 2nd edition has been revised to incorporate clearer, more current, and more dynamic explanations, while maintaining the same organization as the first edition. Art and illustrations have been substantially improved, and the textbook features additional assessments and related resources.

By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following:

Define global climate change
Summarize the effects of the Industrial Revolution on global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration
Describe three natural factors affecting long-term global climate
List two or more greenhouse gases and describe their role in the greenhouse effect

Professor Michael Slater MBE explains the background to Charles Dickens's novel, A Christmas Carol, reveals his reasons for writing it, and discusses its monumental success. [12:29]

Reveals how human population growth has paralleled advances in agriculture, such as the advent of agriculture, and the onset of the Green Revolution.

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Describes causes of increased population growth.

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A rich Fordham University site of primary source material that include full-text, and multimedia sites. There are additional study and research guides such as Modern History in the Movies.

This website from the Fordham University provides information about the expansion of the rail system in European countries between 1840 and 1900. Presents graphs to present the information.

A representation of the views of the factory owners who had become wealthy in mid 19th century England.

This site from the Fordham University and the Internet Modern History Sourcebook offers an outline of primary source materials covering the Second Industrial Revolution and advanced capitalism as well as new technologies associated with that era.

This website from the Fordham University presents industrial data of the leading countries involved in the Industrial Revolution. Provides population statistics, illiteracy, railway expansion, and mineral output.

Students present monologues in the "voice" of someone involved in child labor in England, respond to questions, and then discuss contemporary child laborers and compare them to the past.

Topics page overview produced by History, the cable television channel, consolidates useful information about the Industrial Revolution in one location. With links to videos, photo galleries, and related content on noted industrialists and inventors of the period, the burgeoning iron and steel industries, the spinning jenny, child labor, and more.

Gives a short summary of the French economy including a discussion of the development of industrialization. Covers French economic history from the period of the French Revolution until present.

The Lehigh Valley became a major part of the Industrial Revolution after coal was discovered in the area. In this short video, learn about the canal system that was built as a way to transport the coal from the local mines to New York and Philadelphia. [6:39]

This site has the history of London from 1674-1913. Included in this history is a description of the city in 1775.

This site from the Modern History Sourcebook of Fordham University provides an exerpt from "The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844". Personal account of what life was like for textile mill workers in Manchester.

The Fordham University provides information about the application of steam power, which accelerated the centralization of textile production in factories.

Interactive image of Eli Whitney's plans for the cotton gin, accompanied by an explanation of the cotton gin's purpose and significance in relation to the Industrial Revolution.