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Diatoms to dinosaurs : the size and scale of living things

Title: Diatoms to dinosaurs : the size and scale of living things / Chris McGowan ; illustrations by Julian Mulock.
Author: McGowan, Christopher.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c1994.

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Description

xiii, 288 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

Note

"A Shearwater book"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-271) and index.

Contents

Scale of life -- Keep the home fires burning -- Pumping iron -- From cradle to grave -- Giants: modern and ancient -- Brains: from the massive to the minute -- Drag in the material world -- High fliers -- Tiffany wings and kite strings -- Drifting with the tide: life in the plankton -- Life in the fast lane.

Call Number

JSE 11-271

ISBN

1559633042 (cloth : acid-free paper)

LCCN

94013112

OCLC

30818070

Author

McGowan, Christopher.

Title

Diatoms to dinosaurs : the size and scale of living things / Chris McGowan ; illustrations by Julian Mulock.

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c1994.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-271) and index.

Research Call Number

JSE 11-271

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