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Author Krutch, Joseph Wood, 1893-1970.

Title The great chain of life / by Joseph Wood Krutch ; with illustrations by Paul Landacre
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages) : illustrations
Series Sightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfiction
Sightline books.
Contents Prologue; Contents; 1. Basic Forms of Life: The Simplicity that Isn't Simple; 2. Machinery for Evolution: Enter Love and Enter Death; 3. The Animal's First Need: Protein and Original Sin; 4. Parenthood: With Love and without; 5. The Need for Continuity: More Lives than One; 6. The Barbarian Mammal: Homeric Heroes; 7. The Meaning of Awareness: The You and the Me; 8. Undeveloped Potentialities: The Civilized Animal; 9. Reverence for Life: The Vandal and the Sportsman; 10. Devolution: A Dangerous Experiment; 11. How Right Was Darwin? New Answers to Old Questions; Epilogue
Notes Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1956
Print version record
Subject Animal behavior.
Evolution.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
NATURE -- Animals -- General.
Animal behavior
Evolution
Form Electronic book
Author Landacre, Paul, 1893-1963, illustrator.
ISBN 9781587298806
1587298805