Animal Beauty
On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2019
Summary
An illustrated exploration of colors and patterns in the animal kingdom, what they communicate, and how they function in the social life of animals.Are animals able to appreciate what humans refer to as “beauty”? The term scarcely ever appears nowadays in a scientific description of living things, but we humans may nonetheless find the colors, patterns, and songs of animals to be beautiful in apparently the same way that we see beauty in works of art. In Animal Beauty, Nobel Prize-winning bio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262039949 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026203994X |
| Author: | Jonathan Howard, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Suse Grützmacher |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 102mm x 16mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
About The Author
Jonathan Howard
Christiane N sslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist. She received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis, for research on the genetic control of embryonic development. Since 1985 she has been Director of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in T bingen, where she also leads the Genetics Department.
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