A Natural History of Shells (Princeton Science Library)
Price 26.06 - 53.05 USD
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780691001678
Author
Geerat J. Vermeij
Pages
232
Year of production
1995
Binding
152x220
Geerat Vermeij wrote this "celebration of shells" to share his enthusiasm for those supremely elegant creations and what they can teach us about nature. Most popular books on shells emphasize the identification of species, but Vermeij uses shells as a way to explore major ideas in biology. How are shells built? How do they work? How did they evolve? The author lucidly and charmingly demonstrates how shells give us insights into the lives of animals in our own day as well as in the distant geological past.