TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ryan,Frank
TI  - The mystery of metamorphosis: a scientific detective story 
SN  - 9781603583411
AV  - QL981 .R93 2011
U1  - 571.8/76 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - White River Junction, Vt.
PB  - Chelsea Green Pub.
KW  - Williamson, D. I.
KW  - Metamorphosis
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Hybridization
KW  - Larvae
N1  - "A Sciencewriters book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-280) and index; The beautiful mystery -- Anomalies in the Tree of Life. The birth of an idea ; A puzzle wrapped in an enigma ; First experiments ; The price of iconoclasm ; Challenging the Tree of Life ; "This is impossible!" ; Catastrophe -- The butterfly's tale. The evening of the Great Peacock ; The science of life ; Elementary questions and deductions ; The phoenix in its crucible ; Two souls in one body ; Bizarre extrapolations ; Assembling the jigsaw puzzle ; Ecology's magic bullet -- New perspectives. On the steps of York Minster ; The first genetic testing ; The evolutionary potential of hybridization ; A new life-form -- The molecular age. The puzzle of the hornworm brain ; Aristotle or Darwin? ; Cues and common links ; A tale in a tail ; Of frogs and their relatives ; The wonder of development ; The human brain -- A sting in the tail
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1106/2010052618-b.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1106/2010052618-d.html
ER  -