Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory /
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Published: |
W. W. Norton & Company,
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Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
Publication Dates: | [2017] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First edition. |
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Item Description: | "Includes directions for eighteen hands-on experiments, for home, school, yard, or garden."--Jacket. |
Carrier Form: | xviii, 441 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-418) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780393239898 (hardcover) : 0393239896 (hardcover) 9780393356304 (paperback) 0393356302 (paperback) |
Index Number: | QH31 |
CLC: |
Q111.2-09 K835.616.15 |
Call Number: | Q111.2-09/C837 |
Contents: | Origins of an experimentiser. Experimentising : going to seed -- Barnacles to barbs. Experimentising : doing your barnacles -- Untangling the bank. Experimentising : a taste for botany -- Buzzing places. Experimentising : bees' cells and bubbles -- A grand game of chess. Experimentising : getting around -- The sex lives of plants. Experimentising : Darwinian encounters of the floral kind -- It bears on design. Experimentising : orchidelirium -- Plants with volition. Experimentising : feed me, Seymour! -- Crafty and sagacious climbers. Experimentising : seek and ye shall find -- Earthworm serenade. Experimentising : get thee to a wormery. |