Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating [Audiobook] download free by Leslie Brunetta
- Listen audiobook: Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating
- Author: Leslie Brunetta
- Release date: 2012/4/5
- Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780300181463
- Rating: 8.57 of 10
- Votes: 426
- Review by: Helen Grigsby
- Review rating: 7.66 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/25
- Duration: 3H4M19S in 256 kbps (49.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-05
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, MP3, ATRAC, WAV, FLAC, Apple Lossless, TTA, WMA (compression AZW, DEB, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 248
- Includes a PDF summary of 25 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M14S (5 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wondered, as a spider rappelled out of reach on a line of silk, 'How do they do that?' The orb web, that iconic wheel-shaped web most of us associate with spiders, contains at least four different silk proteins, each performing a different function and all meshing together to create a fly-catching machine that has amazed and inspired humans through the ages. Brunetta and Craig tell the intriguing story of how spiders evolved over 400 million years to add new silks and new uses for silk to their survival 'toolkit' and, in the telling, take readers far beyond the orb. The authors describe the trials and triumphs of spiders as they use silk to negotiate an ever-changing environment, and they show how natural selection acts at the genetic level and as individuals struggle for survival.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Arachnids, Evolution, Insects (entomology), Wildlife: Butterflies, Other Insects & Spiders, Popular Science, Taxonomy & Systematics
- Download servers: S42Transfer, Hotfile, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Torrent. Compressed in AZW, DEB, RAR, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 26.00 USD
- Dimensions: 156x235x14.48mm
- Weight: 363g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: United States
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