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Costa, James T., 1963- author.
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Homes and haunts.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Knowledge and learning.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Childhood and youth.
Down House (Bromley, London, England)
Evolution (Biology) -- History.
Natural history -- Experiments -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory / James T. Costa.
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Costa, James T., 1963- author.
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Subjects
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Homes and haunts.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Knowledge and learning.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Childhood and youth.
Down House (Bromley, London, England)
Evolution (Biology) -- History.
Natural history -- Experiments -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description:
xviii, 441 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Notes:
"Includes directions for eighteen hands-on experiments, for home, school, yard, or garden."--Jacket.
Contents:
Origins of an experimentiser. Experimentising : going to seed -- Barnacles to barbs. Experimentising : doing your barnacles -- Untangling the bank. Experimentising : a taste for botany -- Buzzing places. Experimentising : bees' cells and bubbles -- A grand game of chess. Experimentising : getting around -- The sex lives of plants. Experimentising : Darwinian encounters of the floral kind -- It bears on design. Experimentising : orchidelirium -- Plants with volition. Experimentising : feed me, Seymour! -- Crafty and sagacious climbers. Experimentising : seek and ye shall find -- Earthworm serenade. Experimentising : get thee to a wormery.
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9780393239898
0393239896
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