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The deadly feast of life /

Основен автор: Carr, Donald Eaton, 1903-
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971.
Издание: [1st ed.]
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Подобни документи: Online version:: Deadly feast of life.
Съдържание:
  • The great chain of food
  • The small eat the smallest
  • Uninvited dinner guests
  • Voracious jellies
  • Rapacious stars
  • From oysters to octopus
  • Eating dirt
  • A trillion tiny jaws and claws
  • The social stomachs
  • Fishes, meek and terrible
  • The poor frog and his cousins
  • The reptile menu
  • Wings to find food
  • Food from the mother's body
  • The vegetarian monkey and his carnivorous descendants
  • The agricultural revolution
  • Progress?
  • Are there enough fish in the sea?
  • To each his own
  • Some hazards
  • Malnutrition in the United States
  • Western vegetarianism
  • Total extinction in the ancient seas
  • The permian catastrophe
  • Extinction by being munched on
  • The decline of the great reptiles
  • Disasters of the recent ice age
  • Man as an animal eraser
  • Offensive and defensive molecules
  • The better to sting you with
  • The skin you hate to touch
  • The logic of the fang
  • The hordes of murdering thieves
  • The wisdom of trees
  • Man as a poisonous skunk
  • Chemical and biological warfare
  • Anticlimax
  • The deadly seven
  • Other poisons, other fates
  • Adventures with pesticides
  • Killing weeds and deforming babies
  • More on systematic biological control
  • Food additives
  • The plants themselves may kill you
  • Legacies for the future
  • Man as a chemical adventurer.