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BioGraffiti: A Natural Selection
by John M. Burns
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- ISBN 10
- 0393000311
- ISBN 13
- 9780393000313
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New. Legend has it (it may even be true) that J. B. S. Haldane, when asked by a clergyman what he could infer about God from the works of creation, responded, "He must have had an inordinate fondness for beetles." Were I asked to infer something essential about Homo sapiens from his work, I should probably reply that this zoological odd-ball required humor to lighten a life taken too seriously. How else can we explain the fact that very profession has its underground classic of humorous self-deprecation and verse? Garstang's Larval Forms has long filled this role for evolutionary biology. But, as a residual Victorian, Garstang turned out some mighty stuffy poems-and recapitulatory theory of the details of invertebrate morphology do no reside on the frontier of modern biology. But voyeurs and hedonists can now rejoice, for John Burns has produced a worthy successor, a work full of all that is modern in evolutionary biology-mathematical modeling, ecological strategies, ethological theories and, oh yes, plenty of sex.
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- Title
- BioGraffiti: A Natural Selection
- Author
- John M. Burns
- Book Condition
- New
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- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0393000311
- ISBN 13
- 9780393000313
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1981-03
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