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Author Carroll, Sean B., author.

Title The Serengeti rules : the quest to discover how life works and why it matters / Sean B. Carroll.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  570 CAR    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  570 CAR    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  570 CARROLL    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  570.1 CAR    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  570 CARROLL    DUE 05-08-24
Description 263 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-252) and index.
Contents Introduction : Miracles and wonder -- Everything is regulated -- The wisdom of the body -- The economy of nature -- The logic of life -- General rules of regulation -- Fat, feedback, and a miracle fungus -- Stuck accelerators and broken brakes -- The Serengeti rules -- Some animals are more equal than others -- Serengeti logic -- Another kind of cancer -- Take 60 million walleye and call us in ten years -- Resurrection -- Afterword : Rules to live by.
Summary "How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In [this book] ... Sean Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answers to such simple yet profoundly important questions, and shows how their discoveries matter for our health and the health of the planet we depend upon"--Dust jacket flap.
Subject Life (Biology)
Biological control systems.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Ecology.
Biology -- Research -- Anecdotes.
Biologists -- Anecdotes.
Biological control systems. (OCoLC)fst00832202
Biologists. (OCoLC)fst00832379
Biology -- Research. (OCoLC)fst00832448
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Life (Biology) (OCoLC)fst00998188
Nature -- Effect of human beings on. (OCoLC)fst01034564
Genre/Form Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
ISBN 9780691167428 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691167427 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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