A comprehensive account of the human male gamete featuring sperm production, maturation and function and how they affect fertility, infertility and assisted reproduction. This second edition now includes proteomics, spermatogenesis, Ca2+ signalling, DNA packaging, how mouse genetics informs male fertility research, and the impact of environmental factors during pre-puberty and puberty.

This edited volume records the critical historical developments in thermal physiology and makes them accessible to new and senior thermal biologists and scientists in related fields. The history of thermal physiology not only is a story about individual outstanding scientists, but a testament for open collaboration and international comradery.

This biography provides an understanding of William Bateson as well as a reconciliation of diverging views (e.g. The pressing need for this text is apparent from the high percentages reported not to believe in evolution and the growth of the so-called "intelligent design" movement.