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"People and plants and animals are all alive, but is a doll alive? Or your tricycle? How can you tell?"--Cover.

Demonstrates how various insects blend into their surroundings through camouflage, including walking leaves, cicadas, and treehoppers.

A Harvard museum curator draws on the latest breakthroughs in evolutionary biology to examine how tiny, random convergences, from mutations to butterfly sneezes, have triggered remarkable evolutionary changes. "Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point out many examples of contingency,...

During his visit to an aquarium, a boy finds out about the characteristics and environments of many different marine and freshwater creatures.

Life is an enduring mystery. Yet, science tells us that living beings are merely sophisticated structures of lifeless molecules. If this view is correct, where do the seemingly purposeful motions of cells and organisms originate? In Life's Ratchet, physicist Peter M. Hoffmann locates the answer to this age-old question at the nanoscale. Below the calm, ordered exterior of a living organism lies microscopic chaos, or what Hoffmann calls the molecular...

" Like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this is a book about the fate of the earth and the survival of our planet. Wilson attempts to bridge the seemingly irreconcilable worlds of fundamentalism and science. Passionately concerned about the state of the world, he draws on his own personal experiences and expertise as an entomologist, and prophesies that half the species of plants and animals on Earth could either have gone or at least are fated for...

"This first of a four-part MITeen series charts the evolution of life science up to the late 1800s, when the origins of the virus was discovered by a baffled Dutch biologist who found a tiny infectious particle destroying tobacco crops"-- Provided by publisher.

Explores the variety of tactics plants and animals use to survive in their environments.

"TALKING CHIMPANZEE REPORTED IN JAVA. A Group of Tourists in Indonesia Swear They Were Abused by a Talking Ape in the Jungles of Borneo...NEXT. SCIENTISTS ISLOATE "MASTER" GENE. A Genetic Basis for Controlling Other People? NEXT. NEW TRANSGENIC PETS ON HORIZON. Giant Cockroaches, Permanent Puppies, Industry Hard at Work. NEXT. WELCOME TO OUR GENETIC WORLD. FAST, FURIOUS, AND OUT OF CONTROL. THIS IS NOT THE WORLD OF THE FUTURE - IT'S THE WORLD RIGHT...