Campbell Essential Biology, Fourth Edition provides essential, effective solutions to the challenges faced by instructors and their students in the non-majors biology course.

Three features (Biology and Society, Process of Science, and Evolution Connections) found at the beginning, middle and end of every chapter give students a memorable framework to take with them into the future. One compelling topic anchors the three book features in each chapter to emphasize how biology is highly relevant. The book and the media are designed from the ground up to teach biology to a wide range of students. MasteringBiology, our online tutorial and assessment system, makes it easy to increase student participation and accountability.

CampbellEssential Biology... Essential Solutions


The best-selling biology textbook in the world just got better!

Neil Campbell and Jane Reece's BIOLOGY is the unsurpassed leader in introductory biology. The text's hallmark values-accuracy, currency, and passion for teaching and learning-have made Campbell/Reece the most successful book for students and instructors for seven consecutive editions.

Campbell/Reece is used in 2 out of 3 introductory biology courses for majors. More than 6 million students have benefitted from BIOLOGY's clear explanations, carefully crafted artwork, and student-friendly narrative style. 65 percent of all doctors and biological scientists in the United States under the age of 40 began their study of biology with this book.

For the Eighth Edition, new coauthors have joined with those from previous editions to infuse this proven text with new ideas while upholding its hallmark values. Their collaboration has produced the authoritative introduction to biology, told with a unified voice and vision.


Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology, Third Edition provides essential, effective solutions to the challenges faced by instructors and their students in the non-majors biology course.  

  1. Three features (Biology and Society, Process of Science, and Evolution Connections) found at the beginning, middle and end of every chapter give students a memorable framework to take with them into the future.
  2. One compelling topic anchors the three book features in each chapter to emphasize how biology is highly relevant.
  3. The book and the media are designed from the ground up to teach biology to a wide range of students.
  4. MasteringBiology, our online tutorial and assessment system, makes it easy to increase student participation and accountability. 

CampbellEssential Biology... Essential Solutions


The best-selling biology textbook in the world just got better!

Neil Campbell and Jane Reece's BIOLOGY is the unsurpassed leader in introductory biology. The text's hallmark values-accuracy, currency, and passion for teaching and learning-have made Campbell/Reece the most successful book for students and instructors for seven consecutive editions.

Campbell/Reece is used in 2 out of 3 introductory biology courses for majors. More than 6 million students have benefitted from BIOLOGY's clear explanations, carefully crafted artwork, and student-friendly narrative style. 65 percent of all doctors and biological scientists in the United States under the age of 40 began their study of biology with this book.

For the Eighth Edition, new coauthors have joined with those from previous editions to infuse this proven text with new ideas while upholding its hallmark values. Their collaboration has produced the authoritative introduction to biology, told with a unified voice and vision.