Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis - Couverture souple

Todd, Kim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156032996 ISBN 13 : 9780156032995

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2007

Synopsis

Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterfly pupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling cells on the pupa’s skin look like a galaxy. She can activate a single gene or knock it out. What she can’t do is discover how the insect behaves in its natural habitat—which means she doesn’t know what steps to take to preserve it from extinction, nor how any particular gene may interact with the environment. Four hundred years ago, a fifty-year-old Dutch woman set sail on a solo scientific expedition to study insect metamorphosis. She could not have imagined the routine magic that scientists perform today—but her absolute insistence on studying insects in their natural habitats was so far ahead of its time that it is only now coming back into favor. Chrysalis restores Maria Sibylla Merian to her rightful place in the history of science, taking us from golden-age Amsterdam to the Surinam tropics to modern laboratories where Merian’s insights fuel new approaches to both ecology and genetics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kim Todd is the author of four books about science and history, including Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis and Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of Exotic Species in America. Her most recent, Sensational, the Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters,” was published by HarperCollins in April 2021. Her work has appeared in Orion, Sierra Magazine, Smithsonian, High Country News, and several Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies, among other places, and has received the PEN/Jerard Fund Award and the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. She is currently on the creative writing MFA faculty at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches literary nonfiction. Learn more and get in touch at www.kimtodd.net.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0156032996
• ISBN 13: 9780156032995
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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