Why Big Fierce Animals are Rare: How the Natural World Works - Hardcover
Here is one of the most provocative, wide-ranging, and delightful books ever written about our environment. Paul Colinvaux takes a penetrating look at the science of ecology, bringing to his subject both profound knowledge and an enthusiasm that will encourage a greater understanding of the environment and of the efforts of those who seek to preserve it.
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A mind-tingling survey . . . of the many factors involved in the interrelationships of all living things. . . . An incisive and stirring book, and a model of scientific explanation. -- The New Yorker
A mind-tingling survey . . . of the many factors involved in the interrelationships of all living things. . . . An incisive and stirring book, and a model of scientific explanation. -- "The New Yorker
"A rare achievement. . . . Colinvaux makes us marvel with him at the stability of nature and the incredible fit of every part of it."--New York Times Book Review
"A mind-tingling survey . . . of the many factors involved in the interrelationships of all living things. . . . An incisive and stirring book, and a model of scientific explanation."--New Yorker
"A highly readable and accessible account of the complex way in which nature has molded its ecosystems by fitting predators to prey and food chains to both."--John Barkham
-A rare achievement. . . . Colinvaux makes us marvel with him at the stability of nature and the incredible fit of every part of it.---New York Times Book Review
-A mind-tingling survey . . . of the many factors involved in the interrelationships of all living things. . . . An incisive and stirring book, and a model of scientific explanation.---New Yorker
-A highly readable and accessible account of the complex way in which nature has molded its ecosystems by fitting predators to prey and food chains to both.---John Barkham
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A mind-tingling survey . . . of the many factors involved in the interrelationships of all living things. . . . An incisive and stirring book, and a model of scientific explanation. -- The New Yorker
A mind-tingling survey . . . of the many factors involved in the interrelationships of all living things. . . . An incisive and stirring book, and a model of scientific explanation. -- "The New Yorker
"A rare achievement. . . . Colinvaux makes us marvel with him at the stability of nature and the incredible fit of every part of it."--New York Times Book Review
"A mind-tingling survey . . . of the many factors involved in the interrelationships of all living things. . . . An incisive and stirring book, and a model of scientific explanation."--New Yorker
"A highly readable and accessible account of the complex way in which nature has molded its ecosystems by fitting predators to prey and food chains to both."--John Barkham
-A rare achievement. . . . Colinvaux makes us marvel with him at the stability of nature and the incredible fit of every part of it.---New York Times Book Review
-A mind-tingling survey . . . of the many factors involved in the interrelationships of all living things. . . . An incisive and stirring book, and a model of scientific explanation.---New Yorker
-A highly readable and accessible account of the complex way in which nature has molded its ecosystems by fitting predators to prey and food chains to both.---John Barkham
"A highly readable and accessible account of the complex way in which nature has molded its ecosystems by fitting predators to prey and food chains to both."--John Barkham
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- PublisherGeorge Allen & Unwin
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0045740151
- ISBN 13 9780045740154
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
- IllustratorVana Haggerty
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