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Refugia (Paperback)
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Refugia (Paperback)
Series: Brave & Brilliant
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List price R590
Loot Price R488
Discovery Miles 4 880
You Save R102 (17%)
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Relic species extinct everywhere else on the planet thrive on a
remote archipelago. Evolution requires isolation, and these islands
offer the perfect environment for genetic variation to take place,
fostering new and unique forms of flora and fauna. Evolutionary
biologists Emily and Roland have come on an extended field
expedition to this secluded world, eager to expose its unique
biosphere.As they work to gather a large dataset of dead specimens
for study and description, Emily and Roland experience growing
shifts in their perception, in their bodies, and even in the flow
of linear time. The environment they have come to quantify acts
upon them, the species they collect observe and comment upon them,
and the controlled lens of science cannot save them. Succumbing to
the dynamic power of isolation, they find themselves irrevocably
changed. A poetic novel told through field notes, letters, and
scientific data, Refugia is a story of discovery and transformation
that shows the hubris inherent in the idea that humans live both
outside, and at the center of, the natural world. This is a book
that reveals science in all its imperfect beauty, crossing the line
between observer and observed, scientist and subject, between what
is known and what is unknowable.
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