Nature's giants the biology and evolution of the world's largest lifeforms
The colossal plants and animals of our world-dinosaurs, whales, and even trees-are a source of unending fascination, and their sheer scale can be truly impressive. Size is integral to the way that organisms experience the world: a puddle that a human being would step over without thinking is an enti...
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword by Norman Owen-Smith
- Introduction
- 1. Life on a large scale
- 2. Dinosaurs
- 3. Massive mammals
- 4. Giants of the deep
- 5. Giants of the skies
- 6. Giant insects
- 7. Immense invertebrates
- 8. Record reptiles and amphibians
- 9. Green giants.
