Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory /: how small experiments led to a big theory. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James T. Costa.
• Authors: Costa, James T, 1963-
• Contents: 1. Origins of an experimentiser. Experimentising: Going to seed -- 2. Barnacles to barbs. Experimentising: Doing your barnacles -- 3. Untangling the bank. Experimentising: A taste for botany -- 4. Buzzing places. Experimentising: Bees' cells and bubbles -- 5. A grand game of chess. Experimentising: Getting around -- 6. The sex lives of plants. Experimentising: Darwinian encounters of the floral kind -- 7. It bears on design. Experimentising: Orchidelirium -- 8. Plants with volition. Experimentising: Feed me, Seymour! -- 9. Crafty and sagacious climbers. Experimentising: Seek and ye shall find -- 10. Earthworm serenade. Experimentising: Get thee to a wormery.
• Publisher Details: New York : W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 576.8/2; Evolution (Biology) -- History; Natural history -- Experiments -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Evolution (Biology); Homes; Learning and scholarship; Natural history -- Experiments; Electronic books; Handbooks and manuals; History; Homes and haunts; Knowledge and learning; Childhood and youth
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780393249156; 0393249158
• Related ISBNs: 0393249158
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.