A01=Geerat Vermeij
Ammonoidea
Anomiidae
Author_Geerat Vermeij
Bivalve shell
Bivalvia
Brachiopod
Bryozoa
Calcite
Calcium carbonate
Cambrian
Cassidae
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Cenozoic
Cephalopod
Cerithiidae
Chiton
Cockle (bivalve)
Coralline algae
Crab
Crustacean
Deep sea
Devonian
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Fauna
Fissurellidae
Fresh water
Freshwater snail
Gastropod shell
Gastropoda
Giant squid
Hermit crab
Indian Ocean
Indo-Pacific
Jurassic
Land snail
Larva
Limpet
Logarithmic spiral
Marine biology
Marine Connection
Marine reptile
Mesozoic
Miocene
Mussel
Neogene
Ocean
Oceanography
Ordovician
Organism
Pacific Ocean
Paleozoic
Parrotfish
Permian
Plankton
Pliocene
Porcupinefish
Predation
Pteriidae
Pterosaur
Scallop
Sea anemone
Seawater
Sediment
Silurian
Siphuncle
Speciation
Specific name (zoology)
Starfish
Triassic
Trilobite
Tubercle
Tusk shell
Umbilicus (mollusc)
Product details
- ISBN 9780691001678
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Apr 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Geerat Vermeij wrote this "celebration of shells" to share his enthusiasm for those supremely elegant creations and what they can teach us about nature. Most popular books on shells emphasize the identification of species, but Vermeij uses shells as a way to explore major ideas in biology. How are shells built? How do they work? How did they evolve? The author lucidly and charmingly demonstrates how shells give us insights into the lives of animals in our own day as well as in the distant geological past.
Geerat J. Vermeij is Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Evolutionary World: How Adaptation Explains Everything from Seashells to Civilization; Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life; Nature: An Economic History (Princeton); and Evolution and Escalation: An Ecological History of Life (Princeton).
