The deadly feast of life /
Основен автор: | Carr, Donald Eaton, 1903- |
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Формат: | Книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday,
1971.
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Издание: | [1st ed.] |
Предмети: | |
Подобни документи: |
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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.