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Death on earth : adventures in evolution and mortality
- Title
- Death on earth : adventures in evolution and mortality / Jules Howard.
- Author
- Howard, Jules
- Publication
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2016.
- ©2016
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- Description
- 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.
- Summary
- Explores the never-ending cycle of death and its impact on the living, including the latest scientific discoveries, characteristics of animals with longevity, and cultural taboos.
- Series Statement
- Bloomsbury Sigma series ; book twelve
- Uniform Title
- Bloomsbury sigma series ; bk. 12.
- Alternative Title
- Adventures in evolution and mortality
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- This is a dead frog. Life and death in the universe ; Senescence and what waits for the lucky few ; Fear and loathing in Birchwood ; Free radicals and the secrets within ; This is a dead frog -- The experimental pig phase. The circus under the tent ; Sex and death : the contract killer ; Coffee with the widow-maker ; Suicide, snowy owls and the executioner inside ; This is not a sheep ; The grotto salamander and the guano ; The horrid ground-weaver ; Dark matters -- Journey to the end of the shitatite. Bring out your dead ants ; Mourning has broken ; Who wants to live forever? ; No, this is a dead frog -- The meaning of the loa loa.
- ISBN
- 9781472915078
- 1472915070
- 9781472915085
- 1472915089
- 9781472915108 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 99971744583
- OCLC
- ocn948498674
- 948498674
- SCSB-5886499
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries