A Natural History of Shells (Princeton Science Library) - Couverture souple

Vermeij, Geerat J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0691001677 ISBN 13 : 9780691001678

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Geerat Vermeij wrote this "celebration of shells" to share his enthusiasm for those supremely elegant creations and what they can teach us about nature. Most popular books on shells emphasize the identification of species, but Vermeij uses shells as a way to explore major ideas in biology. How are shells built? How do they work? How did they evolve? The author lucidly and charmingly demonstrates how shells give us insights into the lives of animals in our own day as well as in the distant geological past.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Geerat J. Vermeij is Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Evolutionary World: How Adaptation Explains Everything from Seashells to Civilization; Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life; Nature: An Economic History (Princeton); and Evolution and Escalation: An Ecological History of Life (Princeton).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691001677
• ISBN 13: 9780691001678
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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