The Mystery of Metamorphosis: A Scientific Detective Story - Hardcover

Ryan, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1603583416 ISBN 13: 9781603583411

Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co, 2011

Synopsis

The Mystery of Metamorphosis Metamorphosis has intrigued human observers for thousands of years. While everyone knows this trick of nature transforms caterpillars into butterflies, fewer are aware that this process of transformation also occurs in many other insect species, as well as in amphibians and-in its greatest diversity-in marine creatures. Still, despite its widespread occurrence, metamorphosis has largely remained a... Full description

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About the Author:

Scientist and author Frank Ryan, a former physician, is the author of Virolution, Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told-The Search for the Cure and the New Global Threat (a New York Times Nonfiction Book of the Year), Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues, and Darwin's Blind Spot: Evolution Beyond Natural Selection, among others. He's a leading voice on the role of viruses in evolution and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield, in the United Kingdom, where he focuses on developing his evolutionary concepts and helps translate evolutionary science into medicine practice. He lives in England, and lectures frequently across Europe and in the United States.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1603583416
• ISBN 13: 9781603583411
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320