Civilization And The Limpet
by:
Martin Wells (author)
In the spirit of Lewis Thomas’s Lives of a Cell or the many works of Stephen Jay Gould, zoologist Martin Wells takes us on a journey to explore the wonders of marine life.
In the spirit of Lewis Thomas’s Lives of a Cell or the many works of Stephen Jay Gould, zoologist Martin Wells takes us on a journey to explore the wonders of marine life.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780738201740 (073820174X)
Publish date: September 7th 1999
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
A book of brief essays about interesting critters by the biologist grandson of H.G. Wells. It will change the way you think about existence, remarkable in that all it sets out to do is describe how other things live. Particularly memorable is the essay "How Hot Is a Fish?"