A Natural History of Shells (Princeton Science Library)

ISBN: 9780691001678

出版社: Princeton University Press

出版年: 1995-04-03

页数: 232

定价: USD 24.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

Geerat Vermeij wrote this 'celebration of shells' to share his enthusiasm for those supremely elegant creations and what they can teach us about nature. Most popular books on shells emphasize the identification of species, but Vermeij uses shells as a way to explore major ideas in biology. How are shells built? How do they work? How did they evolve? The author lucidly and charmingly demonstrates how shells give us insights into the lives of animals in our own day as well as in the distant geological past.