Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis [Audiobook] download free by Kim Todd
- Listen audiobook: Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
- Author: Kim Todd
- Release date: 2007/12/29
- Publisher: MARINER BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780156032995
- Rating: 7.67 of 10
- Votes: 70
- Review by: Sierra Hardison
- Review rating: 8.89 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/10
- Duration: 4H2M46S in 256 kbps (66 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-16
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, AU, WAV, FLAC, MPEG4, MPC, AC3 (compression TAR.LZO, AZW4, RAR, CBR, ZIP, EML)
- Total pages original book: 330
- Includes a PDF summary of 28 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M47S (5.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterfly pupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling cells on the pupa's skin look like a galaxy. She can activate a single gene or knock it out. What she can't do is discover how the insect behaves in its natural habitat-which means she doesn't know what steps to take to preserve it from extinction, nor how any particular gene may interact with the environment. Four hundred years ago, a fifty-year-old Dutch woman set sail on a solo scientific expedition to study insect metamorphosis. She could not have imagined the routine magic that scientists perform today-but her absolute insistence on studying insects in their natural habitats was so far ahead of its time that it is only now coming back into favor. Chrysalis restores Maria Sibylla Merian to her rightful place in the history of science, taking us from golden-age Amsterdam to the Surinam tropics to modern laboratories where Merian's insights fuel new approaches to both ecology and genetics.
- Other categories, genre or collection: History Of Science, Wildlife: Butterflies, Other Insects & Spiders, Insects (entomology), Biography: Arts & Entertainment, Biography: General, Individual Architects & Architectural Firms, Individual Artists, Art Monographs, Animals & Nature In Art (still Life, Landscapes & Seascapes, Etc)
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 18.07 USD
- Dimensions: 137x204x22mm
- Weight: 354g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: United States
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