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Author Stott, Rebecca.

Title Darwin and the barnacle / Rebecca Stott
Published London : Faber, 2003

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 MELB  576.8092 Sto/Dat  AVAILABLE
Description xxv, 309 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: List of Illustrations, ix -- Acknowledgements, xiii -- Preface, xvii -- 1 The Sponge Doctor, 1 -- 2 Riddles of the Rock Pools, 22 -- 3 A Baron Miinchausen Amongst Naturalists, 42 -- 4 Settling Down, 68 -- 5 Better Than Castle-Building, 92 -- 6 Very Like a Lobster, 112 -- 7 On Speculating, 135 -- 8 Writing Annie, 154 -- 9 Corked and Bladdered Up, 172 -- 10 Drawing the Line, 194 -- 11 Manoeuvres and Skirmishes, 216 -- 12 The Universe in a Barnacle Shell, 240 -- Epigraph: The Asphalt Curtain, 255 -- Bibliography, 262 -- Endnotes, 273 -- Index, 298
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Cirripedia -- Evolution.
Barnacles -- Evolution.
Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Evolution (Biology)
Barnacles -- Anatomy.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 2004381892
ISBN 0571209661 :
Other Titles Cover has subtitle: Story of one tiny creature and history's most spectacular scientific breakthrough