Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating by Brunetta, Leslie

Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating

Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air,...
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Author: Leslie Brunetta
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Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating by Brunetta, Leslie

Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating

CHF 64.62

Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating

CHF 64.62
Author: Leslie Brunetta
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wondered, as a spider rappelled out of reach on a line of silk, "How do they do that?"

The orb web, that iconic wheel-shaped web most of us associate with spiders, contains at least four different silk proteins, each performing a different function and all meshing together to create a fly-catching machine that has amazed and inspired humans through the ages. Brunetta and Craig tell the intriguing story of how spiders evolved over 400 million years to add new silks and new uses for silk to their survival "toolkit" and, in the telling, take readers far beyond the orb. The authors describe the trials and triumphs of spiders as they use silk to negotiate an ever-changing environment, and they show how natural selection acts at the genetic level and as individuals struggle for survival.

Author: Leslie Brunetta, Catherine L. Craig
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/14/2012
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.82w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780300181463

About the Author

Leslie Brunetta is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, Technology Review, and the Sewanee Review; on NPR; and elsewhere. Catherine L. Craig is an internationally recognized evolutionary biologist, arachnologist, and authority on silk.


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