BioGraffiti : A Natural Selection Paperback / softback
by John M. Burns
Paperback / softback
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Legend has it (it may even be true) that J. B. S. Haldane, when asked by a clergyman what he could infer about God from the works of creation, responded, "He must have had an inordinate fondness for beetles." Were I asked to infer something essential about Homo sapiens from his work, I should probably reply that this zoological odd-ball required humor to lighten a life taken too seriously.
How else can we explain the fact that very profession has its underground classic of humorous self-deprecation and verse?
Garstang's Larval Forms has long filled this role for evolutionary biology.
But, as a residual Victorian, Garstang turned out some mighty stuffy poems-and recapitulatory theory of the details of invertebrate morphology do no reside on the frontier of modern biology.
But voyeurs and hedonists can now rejoice, for John Burns has produced a worthy successor, a work full of all that is modern in evolutionary biology-mathematical modeling, ecological strategies, ethological theories and, oh yes, plenty of sex.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:132 pages
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:27/10/1982
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- ISBN:9780393000313
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:132 pages
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:27/10/1982
- Category:
- ISBN:9780393000313