BioGraffiti - A Natural Selection (Paperback)

Legend has it (it may even be true) that J. B. S. Haldane, when asked by a clergyman what he could infer about God from the works of creation, responded, "He must have had an inordinate fondness for beetles." Were I asked to infer something essential about Homo sapiens from his work, I should probably reply that this zoological odd-ball required humor to lighten a life taken too seriously. How else can we explain the fact that very profession has its underground classic of humorous self-deprecation and verse? Garstang's Larval Forms has long filled this role for evolutionary biology. But, as a residual Victorian, Garstang turned out some mighty stuffy poems-and recapitulatory theory of the details of invertebrate morphology do no reside on the frontier of modern biology. But voyeurs and hedonists can now rejoice, for John Burns has produced a worthy successor, a work full of all that is modern in evolutionary biology-mathematical modeling, ecological strategies, ethological theories and, oh yes, plenty of sex.

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1982
First published:	March 1981
Authors:	John M. Burns
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	132
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-00031-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
LSN:	0-393-00031-1
Barcode:	9780393000313

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