Life at the edge : readings from Scientific American magazine /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Gould, James L., 1945-, Gould, Carol Grant
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Freeman, [1989]
Subjects:	Biology > Miscellanea. Biology Biology > Collected Works.

Table of Contents:

The first life. The evolution of the earliest cells / J. William Schopf
The emergence of animals / Mark A.S. McMenamin
Challenges in the sea. Symbiosis in the deep sea / James J. Childress, Horst Felbeck and George N. Somero
Antarctic fishes / Joseph T. Eastman and Arthur L. DeVries
Intertidal fishes / Michael H. Horn and Robin N. Gibson
Beating the odds. Thermoregulation in winter moths / Bernd Heinrich
The physiology of the koala / Robert Degabriele
Carnivorous plants / Yolande Heslop-Harrison
The perils of parasitism. Communication between ants and their guests / Bert Hölldobler
Slavery in ants / Edward O. Wilson
How the trypanosome changes its coat / John E. Donelson and Mervyn J. Turner
Viroids / T.O. Diener.