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BIOGRAFFITI
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| By: |
JOHN, M. BURNS |
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Paperback |
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£15.00 |
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£12.75 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0393000311 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780393000313 |
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| Publisher: |
W. W. NORTON & COMPANY |
| Pub. date: |
27 October, 1982 |
| Pages: |
132 |
| Synopsis: |
Legend has it (it may even be true) that J. B. S. Haldane, when asked by a clergyman what he could infer about God from the works of creation, responded, "He must have had an inordinate fondness for beetles." Were I asked to infer something essential about Homo sapiens from his work, I should probably reply that this zoological odd-ball required humor to lighten a life taken too seriously. How else can we explain the fact that very profession has its underground classic of humorous self-deprecation and verse? Garstang's Larval Forms has long filled this role for evolutionary biology. But, as a residual Victorian, Garstang turned out some mighty stuffy poems-and recapitulatory theory of the details of invertebrate morphology do no reside on the frontier of modern biology. But voyeurs and hedonists can now rejoice, for John Burns has produced a worthy successor, a work full of all that is modern in evolutionary biology-mathematical modeling, ecological strategies, ethological theories and, oh yes, plenty of sex. |
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