Modeled on Harry Greene's highly successful "Snakes: The Origins of Mystery," this book is the first comprehensive review of lizard ecology around the world. The authors intersperse the text with lively personal vignettes that are highlighted in boxes. Full color.
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Modeled on Harry Greene's highly successful "Snakes: The Origins of Mystery," this book is the first comprehensive review of lizard ecology around the world. The authors intersperse the text with lively personal vignettes that are highlighted in boxes. Full color.
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Fair. An acceptable and readable copy. All pages are intact, and the spine and cover are also intact. This item may have light highlighting, writing or underlining through out the book, curled corners, missing dust jacket and or stickers.
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Used book in good and clean conditions. Pages and cover are intact. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.
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Berkeley. 2003. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520234014. Foreword by Harry W. Greene. 346 pages. hardcover. keywords: Lizards. FROM THE PUBLISHER-From tiny to gigantic, from drab to remarkably beautiful, from harmless to venomous, lizards are spectacular products of natural selection. This book, lavishly illustrated with color photographs, is the first comprehensive reference on lizards around the world. Accessible, scientifically up-to-date, and written with contagious enthusiasm for the subject, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity covers species evolution, diversity, ecology, and biology. Eric R. Pianka and Laurie J. Vitt have studied and photographed members of almost all lizard families worldwide, and they bring to the book a deep knowledge based on extensive firsthand experience with the animals in their natural habitats. Part One explores lizard lifestyles, answering such questions as why lizards are active when they are, why they behave as they do, how they avoid predators, why they eat what they eat, and how they reproduce and socialize. In Part Two the authors take us on a fascinating tour of the world's manifold lizard species, beginning with iguanians, an evolutionary group that includes some of the most bizarre lizards, the true chameleons of Africa and Madagascar. We also meet the glass lizard, able to break its tail into many highly motile pieces to distract a predator from its body; lizards that can run across water; and limbless lizards, such as snakes. Part Three gives an unprecedented global view of evolutionary trends that have shaped present-day lizard communities and considers the impact of humans on their future. A definitive resource containing many entertaining anecdotes, this magnificent book opens a new window to the natural world and the evolution of life on earth. inventory #35197.
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New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 346 p. Contains: Illustrations. Organisms and Environments (Hardcover), 5. Audience: General/trade.
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New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 346 p. Contains: Illustrations. Organisms and Environments (Hardcover), 5. Audience: General/trade.
