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Spider silk : evolution and 400 million years of spinning, waiting, snagging, and mating /

""In Spider Silk, Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig offer a history of this marvelous stuff that readers will find surprisingly compelling---not only for the astonishing complexity of spider silk itself but also for the many uses for it that spiders have created over the ages. It is, in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brunetta, Leslie, 1960-
Otros Autores: Craig, Catherine Lee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • A timeline of the spider fossil record
  • Fossils
  • Living fossils
  • Chance and change
  • Outward and upward
  • Triumph over thin air
  • Small changes, big benefits
  • Spinning, running, jumping, swimming
  • Going vertical
  • Links
  • Now you see it, now you don't
  • Beyond "perfect"
  • Endless forms.