Darwin's most wonderful plants : a tour of his botanical legacy
2019,
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, 255 pages :
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3854803
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| Publication information: |
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019. |
| Copyright: |
©2018 |
| ISBN: |
022667567X |
| ISBN: |
9780226675671 |
| Language: |
English |
| Record ID: |
3854803 |
| Format: |
Regular Print Book |
| Physical description: |
255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
| Date acquired: |
November 15, 2019
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| More creator details: |
Ken Thompson. |
| General note: |
"First published in Great Britain by Profile Books Ltd., 2018"--Title page verso. |
| Contents note: |
Introduction. The secrets of plants -- Room at the top. On the movements and habits of climbing plants (1865) -- Slow learners. The power of movement in plants (1880) -- The biter bit. Insectivorous plants (1875) -- Sex and the single plant. On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing (1862) ; The effects of cross and self-fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom (1876) ; The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species (1877) -- The mysteries of the cabbage patch. The variation of animals and plants under domestication (1868) -- Afterword. |
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