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Do elephants have knees? : and other stories of Darwinian origins / Charles R. Ault Jr.
LIBRA QH367 .A85 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ault, Charles R., Jr., 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
- Evolution (Biology)--Popular works.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Natural selection--Popular works.
- Natural selection.
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Anecdotes.
- Darwin, Charles.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Wonderful relationships : Darwinian stories of origins
- "Curtiosity's" child : Bobby Darwin's impertinent early years
- Darwin and the pampas pirates : adventure in search of treasure
- Fossils, folly, & faults : rounding South America
- Irritating worms : the elderly Darwin fascinated by the intelligence of worms
- A lungfish walked into the zoo : on the origin of limbs from lobe-fins
- Out on a limb : sketching bone by bone from joint to joint at the zoo
- Nosey elephants : a tale of trunks and tusks
- The bearduck of baleen : on the origin of new traits from existing ones
- The saga of Mooshmael : the logic of family relationships
- The higgledy-piggledy whale : Leviathan's walk, paddle, and gallop to the sea
- Archaic chickengators : amniotic archosaur ancestors of dinosaurs and birds
- Coral pigs and tide pool sheep : novel selections of behavior and anatomy
- Epilogue. Femurs and footprints : on the trail of megabeasts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501704673
- 1501704672
- OCLC:
- 945170111
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