Danna Staaf

Nursery Earth

The Wondrous Lives of Baby Animals and the Extraordinary Ways They Shape Our World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An eye-opening, globetrotting journey into the wild and wondrous ways baby animals come into being and play their part in the cycles of life on Earth

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Experiment LLC
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 147mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781615199327
• ISBN-10: 1615199322
• Artikelnr.: 63936870

Autorenporträt

Danna Staaf earned a PhD in biology from Stanford University with her studies of baby squid. She is the author of Monarchs of the Sea and The Lady and the Octopus, and she has written for Science, Atlas Obscura, and  Nautilus. She lives in California with her human family, a cat, and a garden full of grubs, caterpillars, maggots, and innumerable other babies. Richard Strathmann, PhD, is an expert in the diverse patterns of animal development, with a particular focus on marine animals. He finds the beauty and variety of changes from eggs through embryos, larvae, and metamorphosis endlessly entertaining. He joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 1973.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
 
Introduction: A World of the Babies, by the Babies, for the Babies
 
PART I: BUNDLES OF JOY
1. Eggs: Not Just a Bird Thing
2. Provisioning: How to Pack Your Baby’s Lunch
3. Brooding Eggs: Carry Them, Sit on Them, Swallow Them Whole
4. Pregnancy: Not Just a Mammal Thing
 
PART II: SALAD DAYS
5. Larvae: When Kids Look Like Aliens
6. Unaccompanied Minors: Where Do the Escargot?
7. Raising Them Right: Conservation and Sustainability
8. Evolution: What It Does and Doesn’t Recapitulate
 
PART III: COMING OF AGE
9. Metamorphosis, but Happier Than Kafka
10. Juveniles: Neither One Thing nor Another
11. Emergence: A Cicada Case Study
 
Epilogue: Our Quiet Dependence on Babies