Part 1: Responses of Organisms to their Environment
1. Introduction to behaviour
2. Biological clocks
3. Seasonal behaviour and photoperiodism
4. Orientation in animals
5. Orientation in plants: Tropisms
6. Competition
7. Exploitation: Predation and parasitism
8. Cooperative interactions and commensalism
9. Courtship, parental care and life history strategies

Part II: Homeostasis in Animals
10. Introduction to homeostasis
11. Nervous communication and integration
12. Effectors: Muscle
13. Hormonal regulation
14. Control of body water: Osmoregulation
15. Control of blood sugar
16. Control of blood pressure
17. Control of respiratory gases
18. Regulation of body temperature

Part III: Evolution in a New Zealand Context
19. Evolutionary basics: Lamarck, Darwin and Weisman
20. Genes in populations
21. How do new species arise?
22. Patterns in evolution

Part IV: Human Evolution
23. Primate legacy
24. A peculiar ape
25. Prelude to fossils: Rocks and dating
26. The first hominins: The Australopithecines
27. The first stone tools: Homo habilis
28. The use of fire: Homo erectus
29. ‘Archaic Homo sapiens’: Homo heidelbergensis, H. neanderthalensis and the Denisovans
30. The first modern humans
31. The origin and spread of Homo sapiens
32. The Neolithic revolution: Agriculture and settlements

Part V: Biotechnology
33. Recombinant DNA technology: Tools of the trade
34. Applications of techniques in biotechnology

Glossary
Index