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Chargement... Why Elephants Have Big Ears: Understanding Patterns of Life on Earth (2000)par Chris Lavers
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Very interesting. The chapters on dinosaurs bored me but I enjoyed the discussions of more recent animals. ( ) It may sound unlikely, but this book succeeds in making a surprisingly vivid and coherent story of the biological consequences of warm- and coldbloodedness (for examples what it means for the way in which an animal moves), especially for dinosaurs, reptiles and birds, but also for mammals like ourselves. Both highly enjoyable and informative. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Why are all the big land animals on Earth mammals? Why are reptiles so small today when they were so huge in the Age of Dinosaurs? Why are rivers, lakes and swamps dominated by large cold-blooded reptiles and not by mammals? Why are there so many birds on Earth and why are they all so small? In this beautifully written and utterly compelling book Lavers scours the fields of biology, physiology, ecology and palaeontology to find answers to these global-scale questions. In the process he reveals a fundamentally new view of life on Earth, one that offers no room for notions of superiority and inferiority in nature. ¿If you want to understand evolution, read this¿ David Bellamy Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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