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Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory

text Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory

Costa, James T.

Summary
"James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where his ideas on evolution began. We then follow Darwin to Down House, his bustling home of forty years, where he kept porcupine quills at hi... Read more
Contents
Origins of an experimentiser -- Experimentising: going to seed -- Barnacles to barbs -- Experimentising: doing your barnacles -- Untangling the bank -- Experimentising: a taste for botany -- Buzzing places -- Experimentising: bees' cells and bubbl... Read more
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Description
xviii, 441 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher
W.W. Norton 2017
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Woodmere (Main Branch) 921 DARWIN, CHARLES COS in Adult Non-fiction Available

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