Sherry Seethaler

Weird Wild Animal Facts (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

This Element is an excerpt from Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Real Answers on Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond (9780137057399) by Sherry Seethaler. Available in print and digital formats.

Now revealed: scientific secrets of genetics, species, extinction, evolution, and animal thought!

Zoologists and conservationists are making heroic efforts to rebuild populations of certain animal species on the verge of extinction. These populations are often rebuilt from very small numbers of individuals. What risks do these populations face as a result of this lack of genetic diversity? The rebuilding of the California condor population is a case in point....

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson ITP
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780132686235
• Artikelnr.: 37808271

Autorenporträt

Sherry Seethaler, a science writer and educator at University of California, San Diego, works with scientists to explain their discoveries to the public. She writes a column for the San Diego Union Tribune answering readers' questions about science. Seethaler holds an M.S. and Master of Philosophy in biology from Yale and a Ph.D. in science and math education from UC Berkeley. Her dissertation examined how students are taught to make sense of scientific controversy. She designed and taught the innovative university course Teaching Contemporary Scientific Controversies and helped design UCSD's California Teach program, which prepares science and math students to teach.