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RECORD NUMBER: 808 OF 1949| Main Title | How the leopard gets its spots and other scientific insights : a collection of articles on how things happen. | ||||||||||||
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| Publisher | Scientific American, | ||||||||||||
| Year Published | 1992 | ||||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 28239768 | ||||||||||||
| Subjects | Science ; Life sciences ; Natural history | ||||||||||||
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| Collation | 110 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm | ||||||||||||
| Notes | Cover title. Articles originally published 1979-1991 in Scientific American. Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Contents Notes | How the leopard gets its spots / James D. Murray -- How bird eggs breathe / Hermann Rahn, Amos Ar & Charles V. Paganelli -- How honeybees find a home / Thomas D. Seeley -- How continents break up / Vincent Courtillot & Gregory E. Vink -- How receptors bring proteins and particles into cells / Alice Dautry-Varsat & Harvey F. Lodish -- How a supernova explodes / Hans A. Bethe & Gerald Brown -- How roots respond to gravity / Michael L. Evans, Randy Moore & Karl-Heinz Hasenstein -- How animal cells move / Mark S. Bretscher -- How climate evolved on the terrestrial planets / James F. Kasting, Owen B. Toon & James B. Pollack -- How the human eye focuses / Jane F. Koretz & George H. Handelman -- How the immune system learns about self / Harald von Boehmer & Pawel Kisielow -- How gene activators work / Mark Ptashne -- How children learn words / George A. Miller & Patricia M. Gildea -- How killer cells kill / John Ding-E Young & Zanvil A. Cohn. |