WTF, Evolution?!: A Theory of Unintelligible Design - Softcover

Workman Publishing; Grunbaum, Mara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761180346 ISBN 13: 9780761180340

Verlag: Workman Publishing, 2014

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We all have our off days. Why should Evolution be any different? Maybe Evolution got carried away with an idea that was just a little too crazylike having the Regal Horned Lizard defend itself by shooting three-foot streams of blood from its eyes. Or maybe Evolution ran out of steam (Memo to Evolution: The Irrawaddy Dolphin looks like a prototype that should have been left on the drawing board). Or maybe Evolution was feeling cheekya fish with hands? Jokes on you, Red Handfish! Or maybe Evolution simply goofed up: How else to explain the overgrown teeth of the babirusas that curl backward over their face? Oops.

Mara Grunbaum is a very smart, very funny science writer who celebrates the bestor, really, the worstof Evolutions blunders. Here are more than 100 outlandish mammals, reptiles, insects, fish, birds, and other creatures whose very existence leaves us shaking our heads and muttering WTF?! Ms. Grunbaums especially brilliant stroke is to personify Evolution as a well-meaning but somewhat oblivious experimenter whose conversations with a skeptical narrator are hilarious.

For almost 4 billion years, Evolution has produced a nonstop parade of inflatable noses, bizarre genitalia, and seriously awkward necks. What a comedian!

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Mara Grunbaum, founder of the viral Tumblr WTF, Evolution? (1.4 million views), is currently an associate editor at Science World, Scholastic’s science magazine for middle- and high-school students, where she writes about everything from the biology of whiskers to mining palladium on the moon. Her work has also appeared in PopularScience, Discover Magazine, OnEarth, and ScientificAmerican.com, among others. Mara is a graduate of NYU’s master’s program in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting. In 2012, she co-wrote and acted in a video parody called “Sh*t Scientists Say,” which spread rapidly through the scientific community and has been viewed on YouTube nearly 140,000 times to date. She is currently pursuing web video projects with both NOVA and the BBC’s “Earth Unplugged” series. Mara lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Workman Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0761180346
• ISBN 13: 9780761180340
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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