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  title info:
    title: Metamorphosis
    sub title: a natural and human history
  name:
    name part: Harman, Oren Solomon
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: pages cm.
  abstract: ""How many creatures walking on this earth / Have their first being in another form?" the Roman poet Ovid asked two thousand years ago. He could not have known the full extent of the truth: Today, biologists estimate a stunning three-quarters of all animal species on earth undergo some form of metamorphosis. But why do tadpoles transform into frogs, caterpillars into butterflies, elvers into eels, immortal jellyfish from sea sprigs to medusae and back again, growing younger and younger in frigid ocean depths? Why must creatures go through massive destruction and remodeling to become who they are? Tracing a path from Aristotle--who rejected the possibility of metamorphosis--to Darwin to today, historian of science Oren Harman explores that central mystery. Metamorphosis, however, isn't just a biological puzzle: It takes us to the very heart of questions of being and identity, whatever kind of change we may undergo. Metamorphosis is a new classic of natural history: a book that, by unveiling a mystery of nature, causes us to relearn ourselves"-- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Where do we come from? -- Where are we going? -- What is the self?
  note: Oren Harman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Metamorphosis
  subject:
    topic: Metamorphosis
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Evolution (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Evolution (Biology)
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Darwinisme
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General
  classification: QL981 .H37 2025
  classification: 571.8/76
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Metamorphosis
    name:
      name part: Harman, Oren Solomon
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2025
      edition: First edition
    identifier: (DLC) 2025006250
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2025006249
    identifier: (OCoLC)1495041609
  identifier: 9781541607590 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1541607597 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781541607606
  identifier: 1541607600
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 251022
    record change date: 20251101181225.3
    record identifier: in00005668254
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng