How The Snake Lost Its Legs

Author : Lewis I. Held, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107782899
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Snake Lost its Legs written by Lewis I. Held, Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the zebra really get its stripes, and the giraffe its long neck? What is the science behind camel humps, leopard spots, and other animal oddities? Such questions have fascinated us for centuries, but the expanding field of evo-devo (evolutionary developmental biology) is now providing, for the first time, a wealth of insights and answers. Taking inspiration from Kipling's 'Just So Stories', this book weaves emerging insights from evo-devo into a narrative that provides startling explanations for the origin and evolution of traits across the animal kingdom. Held's unique and engaging style makes this narrative both enlightening and entertaining, guiding students and researchers through even complex concepts and encouraging a fuller understanding of the latest developments in the field. The first five chapters cover the first bilaterally symmetric animals, flies, butterflies, snakes, and cheetahs. A final chapter surveys recent results about a menagerie of other animals.

Author : Kelly Tills
Publisher : Awesome Animals
ISBN 13 : 9781736700402
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snakes Have No Legs written by Kelly Tills and published by Awesome Animals. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do snakes wear shoes? No! But they can win a race. See snakes slither up trees, on land, and in water.

Author : Lewis I. Held (Jr.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030447
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Snake Lost its Legs written by Lewis I. Held (Jr.) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the latest developments in evo-devo to explain the science behind tiger stripes, camel humps, and other fascinating animal traits.

Author : Danny Casale
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593330102
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ur Special written by Danny Casale and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the wildly popular characters from Coolman Coffeedan, a colorful and charming collection of parables reminding us to face our fears, our anxieties, and our self-consciousness head-on. What do a naked cat, a sad turtle, an armless robot, and a sentient potato have in common? Quite a lot, actually! In this vibrant and heartfelt book, self-proclaimed bad animator Danny Casale delivers a much-needed jolt of positivity and humor to ease even the sourest of spirits. Fans of his Coolman Coffeedan accounts will recognize his simple and relatable illustrations, but the material is entirely new. Each chapter introduces a new friend and a new hardship, offering the perfect pick-me-up for whatever has you down. Tackling topics from loneliness and self-confidence to the perfect (ONLY) way to construct a bowl of cereal, this book will leave you feeling just fine. So don’t forget—no matter what you may be feeling on the inside, or what people may be saying on the outside, UR SPECIAL!

Author : Eric A. Kimmel
Publisher : Devora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781930143203
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why the Snake Crawls on Its Belly written by Eric A. Kimmel and published by Devora Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of why snakes have no legs, have a forked tongue and why the shed their skin.

Author : Lewis I. Held, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316982718
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Homology? written by Lewis I. Held, Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans and flies look nothing alike, yet their genetic circuits are remarkably similar. Here, Lewis I. Held, Jr compares the genetics and development of the two to review the evidence for deep homology, the biggest discovery from the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology. Remnants of the operating system of our hypothetical common ancestor 600 million years ago are compared in chapters arranged by region of the body, from the nervous system, limbs and heart, to vision, hearing and smell. Concept maps provide a clear understanding of the complex subjects addressed, while encyclopaedic tables offer comprehensive inventories of genetic information. Written in an engaging style with a reference section listing thousands of relevant publications, this is a vital resource for scientific researchers, and graduate and undergraduate students.

Author : Carl Zimmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684856239
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Water's Edge written by Carl Zimmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-09-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody Out of the Pond At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is the story of how we got here, what we left behind, and what we brought with us. We all know about evolution, but it still seems absurd that our ancestors were fish. Darwin's idea of natural selection was the key to solving generation-to-generation evolution -- microevolution -- but it could only point us toward a complete explanation, still to come, of the engines of macroevolution, the transformation of body shapes across millions of years. Now, drawing on the latest fossil discoveries and breakthrough scientific analysis, Carl Zimmer reveals how macroevolution works. Escorting us along the trail of discovery up to the current dramatic research in paleontology, ecology, genetics, and embryology, Zimmer shows how scientists today are unveiling the secrets of life that biologists struggled with two centuries ago. In this book, you will find a dazzling, brash literary talent and a rigorous scientific sensibility gracefully brought together. Carl Zimmer provides a comprehensive, lucid, and authoritative answer to the mystery of how nature actually made itself.

Author : Michael Wayne Caldwell
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351645102
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Snakes written by Michael Wayne Caldwell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents perspectives on the past and present state of the understanding of snake origins. It reviews and critiques data and ideas from paleontology and neontology (herpetology), as well as ideas from morphological and molecular phylogenetics. The author reviews the anatomy and morphology of extant snakes. Methods are also critiqued, including those empirical and theoretical methods employed to hypothesize ancestral ecologies for snakes. The modern debate on squamate phylogeny and snake ingroup phylogeny using molecules and morphology is examined critically to provide insights on origins and evolution. Key Features Important major evolutionary transformation in vertebrate evolution Continuing historical debate in vertebrate paleontology Of wide interest to a core audience of paleontologists, herpetologists, and morphologists Author acknowledged as prominent contributor to debate over snake origins Based on remarkable well preserved fossil specimens

Author : James McClure
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569479690
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snake written by James McClure and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Kramer and Sergeant Zondi have their hands full. On the same day that an adult entertainer known as Eve is found accidentally strangled to death in her dressing room, her pet python wrapped dead around her neck, a beloved candy shop owner named "Lucky" Siyayo is shot to death at his counter in a botched robbery. The detective duo quickly realize neither death is as simple as it looks on the surface: Lucky Siyayo's cash register was all but empty the day he was murdered, which suddenly throws a whole rash of fatal neighborhood robberies into perspective—were none of them robberies at all? It becomes clear a killer is on the loose, but Zondi and Kramer must figure out what the killer is after. Meanwhile, postmortem analysis reveals that Eve didn't die at the time her ex-boss had stated he'd discovered her body; the more Kramer picks the circumstances apart, the less they make sense. With two very different sets of crimes to solve, Kramer and Zondi set off on treks that take them all over town, from the poorer villages to the sleazy dressing rooms of con artists and pimps to gorgeous steop of the South African countryside in another surefire investigation full of both stirring observations of Apartheid and plenty of mischief. Only one thing is for sure—no one is getting to take his day off this week!

Author : Brothers Grimm
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726591928
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White Snake written by Brothers Grimm and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine this. You take a bite from the king’s dish which is a white snake. Then suddenly you start understanding the language of animals. And this gets you out of numerous problems. Does it sound believable? Well it should because this is what the servant in our story experienced. However what are those troubles that he found himself in? Could he really understand all animals and how did this help him? If a servant takes a bite from the king’s dish, you would expect punishment to follow. Did it? Or the servant got a reward? If you want to know how and why, you can read "The White Snake". Children and adults alike, immerse yourselves into Grimm’s world of folktales and legends! Come, discover the little-known tales and treasured classics in this collection of 200 fairytales. Brothers Grimm are probably the best-known storytellers in the world. Some of their most popular fairy tales are "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Little Red Riding Hood" and there is hardly anybody who has not grown up with the adventures of Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel and Snow White. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s exceptional literature legacy consists of recorded German and European folktales and legends. Their collections have been translated into all European languages in their lifetime and into every living language today.