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Why Size Matters, a pioneering book of big ideas in a compact size, gives size its due by presenting a profound yet lucid overview of what we know about its role in the living world. Bonner argues that size really does matter--that it is the supreme and universal determinant of what any organism can be and do. For example, because tiny creatures are subject primarily to forces of cohesion and larger beasts to gravity, a fly can easily walk up a wall, something we humans cannot even begin to imagine doing.
Bonner introduces us to size through the giants and dwarfs of human, animal, and plant history and then explores questions including the physics of size as it affects biology, the evolution of size over geological time, and the role of size in the function and longevity of living things.
As this elegantly written book shows, size affects life in its every aspect. It is a universal frame from which nothing escapes.
Why Size Matters, a pioneering book of big ideas in a compact size, gives size its due by presenting a profound yet lucid overview of what we know about its role in the living world. Bonner argues that size really does matter--that it is the supreme and universal determinant of what any organism can be and do. For example, because tiny creatures are subject primarily to forces of cohesion and larger beasts to gravity, a fly can easily walk up a wall, something we humans cannot even begin to imagine doing.
Bonner introduces us to size through the giants and dwarfs of human, animal, and plant history and then explores questions including the physics of size as it affects biology, the evolution of size over geological time, and the role of size in the function and longevity of living things.
As this elegantly written book shows, size affects life in its every aspect. It is a universal frame from which nothing escapes.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Biologie |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Thema: | Lexika |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 176 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780691152332 |
| ISBN-10: | 0691152330 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Originalsprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Bonner, John Tyler |
| Hersteller: | Princeton University Press |
| Maße: | 203 x 127 x 10 mm |
| Von/Mit: | John Tyler Bonner |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 25.12.2011 |
| Gewicht: | 0,196 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Biologie |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Thema: | Lexika |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 176 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780691152332 |
| ISBN-10: | 0691152330 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Originalsprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Bonner, John Tyler |
| Hersteller: | Princeton University Press |
| Maße: | 203 x 127 x 10 mm |
| Von/Mit: | John Tyler Bonner |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 25.12.2011 |
| Gewicht: | 0,196 kg |
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