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Life: Extraordinary Animals, Extreme Behaviour Hardcover - 2010

by Martha Holmes; Michael Gunton; Contribution by Rupert Barrington

Beautifully written and illustrated with more than 300 high-definition color photographs, "Life" focuses on the most exciting examples of the millions of species to demonstrate the harrowing and very different challenges that all living things must overcome to prevail and to procreate.


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  • Title Life: Extraordinary Animals, Extreme Behaviour
  • Author Martha Holmes; Michael Gunton; Contribution by Rupert Barrington
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
  • Date 2010-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520265370 / 0520265378
  • Weight 3.7 lbs (1.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.5 x 10.1 x 1 in (26.67 x 25.65 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Animal behavior, Adaptation (Biology)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009031158
  • Dewey Decimal Code 578.4

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  • Scientific American, 03/01/2010, Page 84

About the author

Martha Holmes, producer for the BBC television production of Life, completed her doctorate in marine biology at the University of York. Michael Gunton, executive editor of Life, is a zoologist who received his training at Cambridge University.
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