Merde: Excursions in Scientific, Cultural and Socio-Historical Coprology - Hardcover

Lewin, Ralph A.

 
9780375501982: Merde: Excursions in Scientific, Cultural and Socio-Historical Coprology
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375501983 ISBN 13: 9780375501982
Verlag: Random House Inc, 1999

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A scientific odyssey into cultural, social, anthopological, mythological, and biological aspects of coprology examines topics ranging from the purpose of the dung beetle to the unique characteristics of camel droppings. 30,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ralph A. Lewin is professor of marine biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanogra-phy at the University of California at San Diego. He has also taught at several marine-biology labs, was an instructor and special lecturer at Yale, and has lectured on algae, marine microbiology, and biotechnology in various countries, including England, France, Japan, China, and Brazil. His previous publications, several hundred of them, have been mostly academic and technical. He lives in La Jolla, California.

Ralph A. Lewin is professor of marine biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego.

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lt;/b> is an unusual (very unusual) and witty investigation into a subject you may always have wondered about--but didn't know quite what to ask.

History, biology, anthropology, culture, animal behavior--all of these are the real subjects of Merde. Why can some animals do it on the run, and others can't? Why does camel dung make good fires? What are the fascinating stories of the dung beetles?

Myths and legends, physical features, health and disease, uses for construction and as fertilizers--even nutritional values!--Ralph Lewin writes about them all in the most ingratiating and sophisticated and yet scientific way. Merde is also full of personal adventures and observations, as well as anecdotes and examples.

The scattered literature on this subject is voluminous, but until now no one has perused and compiled it all and g

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Verlag
Random House Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0375501983
ISBN 13 
9780375501982
Einband
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
187
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