A Natural History of Shells (Princeton Science Library) - Softcover

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Vermeij, Geerat J.

 
9780691001678: A Natural History of Shells (Princeton Science Library)
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ISBN 10: 0691001677 ISBN 13: 9780691001678
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1995

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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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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).

Geerat J. Vermeij, Professor of Geology at the University of California, Davis, is the author of Evolution and Escalation: An Ecological History of Life (Princeton) and Biogeography and Adaptation: Patterns of Marine Life. Vermeij received a 1992 MacArthur Fellowship.

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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.

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691001677
ISBN 13 
9780691001678
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Anzahl der Seiten
232
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