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Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory /

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Main Authors: Costa, James T., 1963- (Author)
Published: W. W. Norton & Company,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Homes and haunts.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Knowledge and learning.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Childhood and youth.
Down House (Bromley, London, England)
Evolution (Biology) > History.
Natural history > Experiments > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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.

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