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• catalog abstract """The beauty of the natural world lies in the details, and most of those details are not the stuff of calendar art," Natalie Angier writes in the introduction to The Beauty of the Beastly. "I have made it a kind of hobby, almost a mission, to write about organisms that many people find repugnant: spiders, scorpions, parasites, worms, rattlesnakes, dung beetles, hyenas. I have done so out of a perverse preference for subjects that other writers generally have ignored, and because I hope to inspire in readers an appreciation for diversity, for imagination, for the twisted, webbed, infinite possibility of the natural world. Every single story that nature tells is gorgeous."" "She has taken pains to learn her science from the molecule up, finding "the very pulse of the machine" in everything from the supple structure of DNA to the erotic ways of barn swallows, queen bees, and the endangered, otherworldly primate called the aye-aye. Angier knows all that scientists know - and sometimes more - about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preference on evolution. She knows how scientists go about their work, and she describes their ways, their visions, and their arguments."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b7440162.
• catalog created "1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
• catalog description """The beauty of the natural world lies in the details, and most of those details are not the stuff of calendar art," Natalie Angier writes in the introduction to The Beauty of the Beastly. "I have made it a kind of hobby, almost a mission, to write about organisms that many people find repugnant: spiders, scorpions, parasites, worms, rattlesnakes, dung beetles, hyenas. I have done so out of a perverse preference for subjects that other writers generally have ignored, and because I hope to inspire in readers an appreciation for diversity, for imagination, for the twisted, webbed, infinite possibility of the natural world. Every single story that nature tells is gorgeous."" "She has taken pains to learn her science from the molecule up, finding "the very pulse of the machine" in everything from the supple structure of DNA to the erotic ways of barn swallows, queen bees, and the endangered, otherworldly primate called the aye-aye. Angier knows all that scientists know - and sometimes more - about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preference on evolution. She knows how scientists go about their work, and she describes their ways, their visions, and their arguments."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "[Pt.] I. Loving -- 1. Mating for life? -- 2. The urge to cuddle -- 3. Tell a tale of in-laws -- 4. Female choice : an Eve-olutionary force -- 5. What makes a parent put up with it all? -- 6. Dolphin courtship : brutal, cunning, and complex -- 7. Skin deep? -- 8. The grand strategy of orchids -- [Pt.] II. Dancing -- 9. The very pulse of the machine -- 10. The wrapping of DNA -- 11. Chaperoning proteins -- 12. A clue to longevity -- 13. What happens when DNA is bent -- 14. Blueprint for an embryo -- 15. DNA's unbroken text -- [Pt.] III. Slithering -- 16. Admirers of the scorpion -- 17. Parasites and sex -- 18. The scareb, peerless recycler -- 19. There is nothing like a roach -- 20. The pit viper : bizarre, gallant, venomous -- [Pt.] IV. Adapting -- 21. The play's the thing -- 22. Hormones and hyenas -- 23. The world's most endangered primate -- 24. Plenty of fish in the sea -- 25. Chasing cheetahs -- 26. Busy as a bee? -- 27. It's only human -- [Pt.] V. Healing -- 28. A new theory of menstruation -- 29. Why vegetables are good for you -- 30. Unsightly fat : the mammals' fate -- 31. The anatomy of joy -- [Pt.] VI. Creating -- 32. The artful doctor -- 33. From madness to masterpiece -- 34. Scientist at work : Victoria Elizabeth Foe -- 35. Scientist at work : Mary-Claire King -- 36. At the science museum with Stephen Jay Gould -- [Pt.] VII. Dying -- 37. Cell death as the key to life -- 38. Myc gene, arbiter of death or life -- 39. The other side of suicide -- 40. Another stitch in the quilt -- 41. A granddaughter's fear.".
• catalog extent "xxii, 278 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Beauty of the beastly.".
• catalog identifier "0395718163".
• catalog isFormatOf "Beauty of the beastly.".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Boston : Houghton Mifflin,".
• catalog relation "Beauty of the beastly.".
• catalog subject "574 20".
• catalog subject "Life (Biology)".
• catalog subject "QH501 .A54 1995".
• catalog tableOfContents "[Pt.] I. Loving -- 1. Mating for life? -- 2. The urge to cuddle -- 3. Tell a tale of in-laws -- 4. Female choice : an Eve-olutionary force -- 5. What makes a parent put up with it all? -- 6. Dolphin courtship : brutal, cunning, and complex -- 7. Skin deep? -- 8. The grand strategy of orchids -- [Pt.] II. Dancing -- 9. The very pulse of the machine -- 10. The wrapping of DNA -- 11. Chaperoning proteins -- 12. A clue to longevity -- 13. What happens when DNA is bent -- 14. Blueprint for an embryo -- 15. DNA's unbroken text -- [Pt.] III. Slithering -- 16. Admirers of the scorpion -- 17. Parasites and sex -- 18. The scareb, peerless recycler -- 19. There is nothing like a roach -- 20. The pit viper : bizarre, gallant, venomous -- [Pt.] IV. Adapting -- 21. The play's the thing -- 22. Hormones and hyenas -- 23. The world's most endangered primate -- 24. Plenty of fish in the sea -- 25. Chasing cheetahs -- 26. Busy as a bee? -- 27. It's only human -- [Pt.] V. Healing -- 28. A new theory of menstruation -- 29. Why vegetables are good for you -- 30. Unsightly fat : the mammals' fate -- 31. The anatomy of joy -- [Pt.] VI. Creating -- 32. The artful doctor -- 33. From madness to masterpiece -- 34. Scientist at work : Victoria Elizabeth Foe -- 35. Scientist at work : Mary-Claire King -- 36. At the science museum with Stephen Jay Gould -- [Pt.] VII. Dying -- 37. Cell death as the key to life -- 38. Myc gene, arbiter of death or life -- 39. The other side of suicide -- 40. Another stitch in the quilt -- 41. A granddaughter's fear.".
• catalog title "The beauty of the beastly : new views on the nature of life / Natalie Angier.".
• catalog type "text".