Univ Of California Pr Books
Books editi da Univ Of California Pr con argomento Adaptation
Life
Holmes Martha
Gunton Michael
Barrington Rupert
Chapman Adam
Morris Patrick
Oakes Ted
edizioni Univ of California Pr collana Univ of California Pr (Hardcover) , 2010
Life, the spectacular companion volume to the new Discovery Channel/BBC series, tells a majestic and compelling story of survival and of the amazing behaviors animals and plants adopt to stay alive and to pass their genes through a new generation. Beautifully written and illustrated with more than 300 high definition...
Natural Security
Sagarin Raphael D. (EDT)
Taylor Terence (EDT)
edizioni Univ of California Pr collana Univ of California Pr (Hardcover) , 2008
Arms races among invertebrates, intelligence gathering by the immune system and alarm calls by marmots are but a few of nature's security strategies that have been tested and modified over billions of years. This provocative book applies lessons from nature to our own toughest security problems--from global terrorism...
Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree
Losos Jonathan B.
edizioni Univ of California Pr collana (Hardcover)
Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single most important source of biological diversity in the living world. One of the best-studied examples involves Caribbean Anolis lizards. With about...