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Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise by David Rothenberg
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
In the spring of 2013 the cicadas in the North Eastern United States emerged from their seventeen year cycle - the longest gestation period of any animal. In listening to cicadas, as well as other humming, clicking, and thrumming insects, Bug Music is the first book to consider the radical notion that w ...Show more
Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution by David Rothenberg
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
'The peacock's tail makes me sick!' said Charles Darwin. That's because the theory of evolution as adaptation can't explain why nature is so beautiful. It took the concept of sexual selection for Darwin to explain that, a process that has more to do with aesthetic taste than adaptive fitness. Survival o ...Show more
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