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A mouse weighs about one ounce, has a heart rate of 700 beats per minute, a gestation period of 21 days, and lives for less than 3 years. A 5-ton elephant has a heart rate of 30 beats per minute, a 22 month gestation period, a slow metabolic rate and lives for 60 years or more. How are these facts related? In this text Christopher McGowan investigates a wide range of size-related phenomena, from the gliding mechnism of diatoms to blood pressure problems of dinosaurs. A journey through the natural world and life in its various forms.
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Diatoms To Dinosaurs, Christopher McGowan
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 1999
- Oprawa
- (miękka)
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- Tytuł
- Diatoms To Dinosaurs
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- Christopher McGowan
- Wydawca
- Penguin Books
- Rok wydania
- 1999
- Oprawa
- miękka
- ISBN10
- 0140281045
- ISBN13
- 9780140281040
- Seria
- Tagi
- Nauki przyrodnicze, Nauka
- Ocena
- 3,5 z 5
- Opis
- A mouse weighs about one ounce, has a heart rate of 700 beats per minute, a gestation period of 21 days, and lives for less than 3 years. A 5-ton elephant has a heart rate of 30 beats per minute, a 22 month gestation period, a slow metabolic rate and lives for 60 years or more. How are these facts related? In this text Christopher McGowan investigates a wide range of size-related phenomena, from the gliding mechnism of diatoms to blood pressure problems of dinosaurs. A journey through the natural world and life in its various forms.