Over at Science, I’m doing a little guest-blogging this months on their Origins blog. My post today is on interplanetary kudzu and other things that NASA can learn from Darwin. Check it out.
Evolution On Other Worlds
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Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist.
He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is The Tangled Bank: An Introduction To Evolution. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is [ blog at carlzimmer dot com ].
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Books by Carl Zimmer
The Tangled Bank is the best written and best illustrated introduction to evolution of the Darwin centennial decade, and also the most conversant with ongoing research.--E. O. Wilson, Harvard University
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"Superb...quietly revolutionary"--Boston Globe
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"Fascinating...thrilling... Zimmer has produced a top-notch work of popular science."--Los Angeles Times
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"As thorough as it is graceful...This is as fine a book as one will find on the subject."--Scientific American
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"A book capable of changing how we see the world."--The Los Angeles Times
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"A fascinating story, which Zimmer unfolds as a tale of high-stakes scientific sleuthing."--Booklist
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- DISCOVERmagazine: Living World
- What is This? A Glowing, Cave-Dwelling Organism?
- Top 100 Stories of 2009: #46: First-Ever Dinosaur Mummy Puts Flesh on the Bones
- Destination Science: Hunting Dinosaurs With Jack Horner
- The Intellectual Property Fight That Could Kill Millions
- Top 100 Stories of 2009: #42: Scientists Watch Pathogens as They Cause Infection
- DISCOVER Blogs: Bad Astronomy
February 7th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Given the opportunity, life goes on Welfare. Consider corn – too stupid to reproduce on its own, demands synthetic nitrogen fertilizer as a right, and transformed the entire American Midwest into an Inner Farm. Don’t get me started on the fragile and endangered Furbish lousewort, the Delhi Sands flower-loving fly (Rhaphiomidas terminatus abdominalis), and the Giant Flying Vampire Toad.
February 7th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
I have still to read your Microcosm, but thought you might get a smile out of this weeks Bob the Angry Flower.