A well-known biologist who writes a column for the distinguished bimonthly magazine American Scientist presents some of his favorite essays from that periodical in this wide-ranging book. He presents science as a great intellectual adventure--a search of why things are as they are. 20 illus.
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A well-known biologist who writes a column for the distinguished bimonthly magazine American Scientist presents some of his favorite essays from that periodical in this wide-ranging book. He presents science as a great intellectual adventure--a search of why things are as they are. 20 illus.
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Illustrated by Linda Price Thomson. VG/VG. 0300056303. The Piltdown fraud, the mystery of how a shark swims with an asymmetric tail, dinosaur extinction debate, how to sit on a horse, literature of science, puzzle of palaeospondylus, paleontology, evolution...a few topics from this book.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Not ex-lib. Hardcover in blue cloth, in off-white; light grey jacket, 8vo. xi + 186pp. Index, references, illustrations. Fine/Fine. Book and jacket are as new: clean, tight, square and unmarked. jacket in Brodart.