Animal Weapons

Author : Douglas J. Emlen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805094504
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Weapons written by Douglas J. Emlen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the extreme weapons we see in the animal world—teeth, horns and claws—draws parallels to the way humans develop and employ our own weapons.

Author : Douglas J. Emlen
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 142994739X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Weapons written by Douglas J. Emlen and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AWARD IN SCIENCE The story behind the stunning, extreme weapons we see in the animal world--teeth and horns and claws--and what they can tell us about the way humans develop and use arms and other weapons In Animal Weapons, Doug Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he's been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons—fish with mouths larger than their bodies and bugs whose heads are so packed with muscle they don't have room for eyes. As singular and strange as some of the weapons we encounter on these pages are, we learn that similar factors set their evolution in motion. Emlen uses these patterns to draw parallels to the way we humans develop and employ our own weapons, and have since battle began. He looks at everything from our armor and camouflage to the evolution of the rifle and the structures human populations have built across different regions and eras to protect their homes and communities. With stunning black and white drawings and gorgeous color illustrations of these concepts at work, Animal Weapons brings us the complete story of how weapons reach their most outsized, dramatic potential, and what the results we witness in the animal world can tell us about our own relationship with weapons of all kinds.

Author : Douglas J. Emlen
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9781250075314
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Weapons written by Douglas J. Emlen and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Outstanding . . . Emlen's book on animal warfare reveals a world far more fascinating and intriguing than one we could summon with our imagination." -The Seattle Times Every animal relies on a weapon of some kind-cats have claws, eagles have talons, even the dogs we keep as pets have a respectable set of teeth. In rare cases, we find species whose weapons have become stunningly outsized, some with tusks so massive that those who wield them look like they should collapse under the weight. In Animal Weapons, biologist Douglas Emlen pulls readers into the worlds of these remarkable beasts, trekking through rainforests and mountain passes to unravel the mysteries of their weapons. Along the way, Emlen shows that the essential biology of animal arms races applies to our own weapons, too. A story that begins with biology becomes the story of all weapons, as Emlen seeks to determine where this parallel leaves us today, in a world filled with the deadliest weapons of all time-nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of mass destruction.

Author : Janet Riehecky
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1429665084
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camouflage and Mimicry written by Janet Riehecky and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2012 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how animals use camouflage and mimicry as weapons and defences"--Title page verso.

Author : Janet Riehecky
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1429665041
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poisons and Venom written by Janet Riehecky and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2012 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes how animals use poison and venoms as weapons and defenses"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Core Content Science -- Animal
ISBN 13 : 1634404203
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deadly Weapons written by Joanne Mattern and published by Core Content Science -- Animal. This book was released on 2019 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong jaws, razor-sharp teeth, exploding gases! Discover some of the super weapons in Earth's animal kingdom.

Author : Phyllis Limbacher Tildes
Publisher : Charlesbridge
ISBN 13 : 160734002X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals in Camouflage written by Phyllis Limbacher Tildes and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how various animals use their coloration and physical characteristics to conceal themselves.

Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393069222
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies written by Jared Diamond and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-04-17 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.

Author : Ian C. W. Hardy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107244390
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Contests written by Ian C. W. Hardy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contests are an important aspect of the lives of diverse animals, from sea anemones competing for space on a rocky shore to fallow deer stags contending for access to females. Why do animals fight? What determines when fights stop and which contestant wins? Addressing fundamental questions on contest behaviour, this volume presents theoretical and empirical perspectives across a range of species. The historical development of contest research, the evolutionary theory of both dyadic and multiparty contests, and approaches to experimental design and data analysis are discussed in the first chapters. This is followed by reviews of research in key animal taxa, from the use of aerial displays and assessment rules in butterflies and the developmental biology of weapons in beetles, through to interstate warfare in humans. The final chapter considers future directions and applications of contest research, making this a comprehensive resource for both graduate students and researchers in the field.

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801862298
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weapons written by and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1954 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes in text and pictures weapons used through the ages, from the stones of prehistoric man to the bombs of modern times.