Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements - Couverture souple

Wilkinson, Matt

 
9781785781155: Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements
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ISBN 10 : 1785781154 ISBN 13 : 9781785781155
Editeur : Icon Books, 2016

Synopsis

A billion-year history of movement, from bacteria to Olympic athletes.

'Packed with revelations, scholarly but clear, Restless Creatures carries you from the kinetics of the amoeba to that of the blue whale, from the swim-cycle of spermatozoa, to why skipping works best on the moon. A pop-science treat.' Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being

Despite the overwhelming diversity of life on earth, one theme has dominated its evolution: the apparently simple act of moving from one place to another. Restless Creatures is the first book for a general audience telling the incredible story of locomotion in human and animal evolution.

Evolutionary biologist Matt Wilkinson traces this 4-billion-year history, showing why our ancestors became two-legged, how movement explains why we have opposable thumbs and a backbone, how fish fins became limbs, how even trees are locomotion-obsessed, and how movement has shaped our minds as well as our bodies. He explains why there are no flying monkeys or biological wheels, how dinosaurs took to the air, how Mexican waves were the making of the animal kingdom, and why moving can make us feel good.

Restless Creatures opens up an astonishing new perspective - that little in evolution makes sense unless in the light of movement.

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À propos de l?auteur

Matt Wilkinson is a zoologist and science communicator at the University of Cambridge. His work has been covered in the Telegraph, Metro, New Scientist and Nature. He has been a runner-up in the Daily Telegraph/BASF science writer competition, and reached second place in the first Cheltenham Science Festival FameLab competition. In 2007 he went to drama school, and he wrote a play about T.H. Huxley that was premiered at the 2009 Darwin Festival. Restless Creatures is his first book.

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Éditeur
Icon Books
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1785781154
ISBN 13 
9781785781155
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780465065721: Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0465065724 ISBN 13 :  9780465065721
Editeur : Basic Books, 2016
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