Life's devices : the physical world of animals and plants

By:

Vogel, Steven

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Jersey Princeton University Press 1988Description: 367pISBN:

9780691024189

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

574.191 VOG

Summary: This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. “My immodest aim,” says the author, “is to change how you view your immediate surroundings.” He asks us to wonder about the design of plants and animals around us: why a fish swims more rapidly than a duck can paddle, why healthy trees more commonly uproot than break, how a shark manages with such a flimsy skeleton, or how a mouse can easily survive a fall onto any surface from any height.

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This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. “My immodest aim,” says the author, “is to change how you view your immediate surroundings.” He asks us to wonder about the design of plants and animals around us: why a fish swims more rapidly than a duck can paddle, why healthy trees more commonly uproot than break, how a shark manages with such a flimsy skeleton, or how a mouse can easily survive a fall onto any surface from any height.

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