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

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.
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Anatomy, Comparative
  • Animal Population Groups > anatomy & histology
  • Biological Evolution
  • Body Constitution
  • Body size
  • Evolution (Biology)
  • Life (Biology)
  • Morphology (Animals)
  • Physiology
  • Physiology, Comparative
  • Somatotypes
Note
  • "A Shearwater book"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-271) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
1559633042 (cloth : acid-free paper)
LCCN
^^^94013112^
OCLC
30818070
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library