Matthew D. Laplante

Superlative: The Biology of Extremes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Journalist Matthew D. LaPlante presents a collection of nature's "outliers," or extraordinary animals and plants that could have the power to change our lives through research and scientific insights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Benbella Books
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781946885944
• ISBN-10: 1946885940
• Artikelnr.: 52911938

Autorenporträt

Matthew D. LaPlante

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Introduction Nature's Best Ambassadors Chapter I All Things Great
and Tall: How the World's Biggest Life-Forms Are Saving Human Lives
Chapter II All the Small Things: Why Little Organisms Have Such a Big
Impact on Our World
Chapter III The Old Dominion: How Our Biological Elders are Offering Us New
Knowledge
Chapter IV Fast Times: Why the Quickest Animals Probably Aren't the Ones
You Think
Chapter V Aural Sects: How Superlative Sound Drives Life as We Know It
Chapter VI The Tough Get Going: How the World's Strongest Organisms Might
Lift Us to the Heavens
Chapter VII Deadly Serious: Why the World's Most Efficient Killers Are Such
Effective Lifesavers
Chapter VIII Smarter All the Time: Why the Most Intelligent Life-Forms
Ain't Us
Conclusion The Next Superlative Discovery Is Yours
Acknowledgments Notes About the Author