The life of a leaf
In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what organisms can do and offers innumerable opportunities for evolving fascinating ways of challenging those limits. Here, Vogel explains these interactions, examining through the example of the leaf the e…
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- Full title :The life of a leaf / Steven Vogel.
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In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what organisms can do and offers innumerable opportunities for evolving fascinating ways of challenging those limits. Here, Vogel explains these interactions, examining through the example of the leaf the extraordinary designs that enable leaf to adapt to its physical world. In Vogel's account, the leaf serves as a biological everyman, an ordinary and ubiquitous living thing that nonetheless speaks volumes about our environment as well as its own. Thus in exploring the leaf's world, Vogel simultaneously explores our own. -- from back cover.
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- Publication Date:2012
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 303 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780226859392, 0226859398
- oclc:ocn752472135
- LC Classification:QK649
- Dewey Decimal:575.5/7
Table of Contents
Starting the story -- Seeking illumination -- Diffusing gases -- Flowing gases -- Leaking water -- Raising water -- Interfacing with air -- Keeping cool -- Cleaning surfaces -- Staying unfrozen -- Staying stiff and high -- Surviving a storm -- Making and maintaining -- Winding it up.
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