About The Book
This textbook is a project under development by faculty and staff at Thompson Rivers University for use in the BIOL 1592 and 1593 courses. This text is our adaptation of another adaptation, that of the Biology faculty at Douglas College (BC, Canada), of the original OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology open access textbook. Our version reorganizes units, and splits the Nervous System unit into three separate units. Coverage of a number of topics is also expanded, either by importing content from the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology 2e textbook, or written de novo.
Readers should be aware that the information herein is subject to change at any time as corrections, additions, or other important modifications are made. Current students at Thompson Rivers University should be aware that only the most recent version of this textbook will be considered by their instructors to be complete and correct.
The most recent version of the Douglas College adaptation (second edition), upon which the Thompson Rivers University adaptation is based, will remain accessible online at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol110311092nded/, and the most recent version of the fourth edition of the companion textbook (developed for Douglas College’s BIOL 1203 and BIOL 1209 courses) will also remain accessible online at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol120312094thed/.
Additional information included in the Thompson Rivers University adaptation was obtained from the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology textbook (2nd edition), which can be found online at: https://openstax.org/details/books/anatomy-and-physiology-2e.
Both the Douglas College adaptation and the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology (2nd edition) are based on the original OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology textbook, freely and perpetually available online at http://cnx.org/content/col11496/latest/. The original adaptations of that OpenStax textbook for Douglas College are accessible online at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol11031109/ and https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol12031209/.