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Spider silk : evolution and 400 million years of spinning, waiting, snagging, and mating /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brunetta, Leslie, 1960-
Other Authors: Craig, Catherine Lee
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Spider webs.
Spiders > Anatomy.
Spiders, Fossil.
Spiders > Evolution.
Evolution (Biology)
Spiders > anatomy & histology.
Silk.
Table of Contents:
  • A timeline of the spider fossil record
  • Fossils
  • Living fossils
  • Chance and change
  • Outward and upward
  • Triumph over thin air
  • Small changes, big benefits
  • Spinning, running, jumping, swimming
  • Going vertical
  • Links
  • Now you see it, now you don't
  • Beyond "perfect"
  • Endless forms.