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Consider The Platypus: Evolution Through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts

Author: Maggie Ryan Sandford. Rodica Prato, illus.

Consider The Platypus: Evolution Through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts

Author: Maggie Ryan Sandford. Rodica Prato, illus.

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Item #: D30157
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2019
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 9780316418393
The peppered moth's coloring has changed to match the soot in the London air, the two-spotted octopus can alter its DNA, and the microscopic tardigrade can withstand radiation and temperatures of 300 degrees below zero. With wit and accessible scientific anecdotes, Maggie Ryan Sandford probes the mysteries of evolution, and in this illustrated overview she e... More
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The peppered moth's coloring has changed to match the soot in the London air, the two-spotted octopus can alter its DNA, and the microscopic tardigrade can withstand radiation and temperatures of 300 degrees below zero. With wit and accessible scientific anecdotes, Maggie Ryan Sandford probes the mysteries of evolution, and in this illustrated overview she explains the weirdly wonderful attributes of the sloth, honey bee, cow, brown kiwi, lungfish, and the Neanderthal, among many others.


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