The mystery of metamorphosis : a scientific detective story
Record details
- ISBN: 1603583416
- ISBN: 9781603583411
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Physical Description:
xxiii, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2011.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Sciencewriters book." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-280) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The beautiful mystery -- Anomalies in the Tree of Life. The birth of an idea ; A puzzle wrapped in an enigma ; First experiments ; The price of iconoclasm ; Challenging the Tree of Life ; "This is impossible!" ; Catastrophe -- The butterfly's tale. The evening of the Great Peacock ; The science of life ; Elementary questions and deductions ; The phoenix in its crucible ; Two souls in one body ; Bizarre extrapolations ; Assembling the jigsaw puzzle ; Ecology's magic bullet -- New perspectives. On the steps of York Minster ; The first genetic testing ; The evolutionary potential of hybridization ; A new life-form -- The molecular age. The puzzle of the hornworm brain ; Aristotle or Darwin? ; Cues and common links ; A tale in a tail ; Of frogs and their relatives ; The wonder of development ; The human brain -- A sting in the tail. |
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Subject: | Metamorphosis Evolution (Biology) Hybridization Larvae Williamson, D. I. (Donald Irving) |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | 571.876 RYA (Text) | 000100250 | Nonfiction | Available | - |