Consider the Platypus: Evolution Through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts

Sandford, Maggie Ryan

ISBN 10: 0316418390 / ISBN 13: 9780316418393

Published by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2019

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0316418390I4N10

Synopsis:

Interested in the origins of the species? Consider the Platypus uses pets such as dogs and cats as well as animal outliers like the axolotl and naked mole rat to wittily tackle mind-bending concepts about how evolution, biology, and genetics work.

About the Author:

Maggie Ryan Sandford is a science journalist, broadcast media producer, researcher, award-winning comedy writer, speaker, and performer. She has been published in Smithsonian, Slate, Nautili.us, National Geographic, mental floss, Glamour, ComedyCentral.com, The Onion's A.V Club, and appeared regularly on All Things Considered and Freakonomics Tell Me Something You Don't Know. She also worked as a research associate at the Science Museum of Minnesota, where she studied the way people engage with science. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Rodica Prato's award-winning pen-and-ink work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, books and advertisements, including many of Martha Stewart's books; the official map of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, drawn tree by tree; the Steinway history 88 Keys; a number of Garrison Keillor's covers, and detailed illustrations for The White House Historical Association. She lives in New York City.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Consider the Platypus: Evolution Through ...
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Prato, Rodica
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket