The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar - Softcover

Simon, Matt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472242017 ISBN 13: 9781472242013

Verlag: Headline, 2017

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An absurdist, comical romp through evolution's weirdest solutions to nature's problems.

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Matt Simon is a journalist who writes Wired Science's 'Absurd Creature of the Week' column. He has also edited Wired's 'This Day in Tech blog', which was compiled into the book Mad Science, and writes a second column called 'Fantastically Wrong' that explores the strangest mistakes in folklore and science. He lives in San Francisco.

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A fascinating exploration of the awe-inspiring, weird, and unsettling ingenuity of evolution.

On a barren seafloor, the pearlfish swims into the safety of a sea cucumber's anus. To find a meal, the female bolas spider releases pheromones that mimic a female moth, luring male moths into her sticky lasso web. The Glyptapanteles wasp injects a caterpillar with her young, which feed on the victim, erupt out of it, then mind-control the poor (and somehow still living) schmuck into protecting them from predators.

These are among the curious critters of The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar, a jaunt through evolution's most unbelievable, most ingenious solutions to the problems of everyday life, from trying to get laid to finding food. JoinWired science writer Matt Simon as he introduces you to the creatures that have it figured out, the ones that joust with their moustaches or choke sharks to death with snot, all in a wild struggle to survive and, of course, find true love.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Headline
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1472242017
• ISBN 13: 9781472242013
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar