How the zebra got its stripes Darwinian stories told through evolutionary biology
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Pegasus Books,
2017.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books hardcover edition |
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| 005 | 20170515154100.0 | ||
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| 100 | 1 | |a Grasset, Léo, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a How the zebra got its stripes : |b Darwinian stories told through evolutionary biology / |c Léo Grasset ; [translation by Barbara Mellor]. |
| 250 | |a First Pegasus Books hardcover edition | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Pegasus Books, |c 2017. | |
| 300 | |a 154 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 22 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a Translation of: Le coup de la girafe : des savants dans la savane. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-143) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part I. Evolution in its guises -- The female hyena's penis -- The giraffe's long neck -- The random flight of the gazelle -- How the zebra got its stripes -- Part II. The mysteries of animal behaviour -- The air-conditioning of the termite mound -- The impala's Mexican waves -- Elephant dictatorship vs buffalo democracy -- The antelope art of sexual manipulation -- Part III. Extraordinary creatures -- Dung beetle navigation -- Seismic signalling in the elephants' sound-world -- Honey badger: weapon of mass destruction -- The truth about the Lion King -- Part IV. The human factor -- How to turn a lion into a cub-killer -- Catastrophic change -- Human evolution and its impact -- Epilogue. The zebras and me. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Savanna animals |z Africa |v Miscellanea. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Trivia and miscellanea. |2 lcgft | |
| 690 | 0 | |a Stein, Sylvia tribute. | |
| 740 | 0 | 1 | |a Coup de la girafe. |l English |
| 700 | 1 | |a Mellor, Barbara, |e translator. | |
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