Matt Wilkinson

Gebundenes Buch

Restless Creatures

The Story of Life in Ten Movements

Beschreibung

A billion-year history of movement, from bacteria to Olympic athletes.

Autor

Matt Wilkinson is a zoologist and science communicator at the University of Cambridge. His work has been covered in the Telegraph, Metro, New Scientist and Nature. He has been a runner-up in the Daily Telegraph/BASF science writer competition, and reached second place in the first Cheltenham Science Festival FameLab competition. In 2007 he went to drama school, and he wrote a play about T.H. Huxley that was premiered at the 2009 Darwin Festival. Restless Creatures is his first book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Icon Books
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9781785780455
• ISBN-10: 178578045X
• Artikelnr.: 43876184

Rezensionen

'It would be hard to find a more companionable guide to the marvels of locomotory evolution than Matt Wilkinson. In Restless Creatures, the zoologist and writer rehearses twice-told tales of animals becoming bilateral, exiting the sea for the land and evolving flight, but makes them fresh. These are wonderfully adept and informed explanations of locomotory modes - whether in birds, gliding snakes, eels, sharks or a host of fossil vertebrates - and there is not a single vignette that I failed to learn something from.' Nature