Description: Sleeping Beauties : The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture, Hardcover by Wagner, Andreas, ISBN 0861545273, ISBN-13 9780861545278, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Why do some of nature’s marvels have to wait millions of years for their time in the sun? Life innovates constantly, producing perfectly adapted species – but there’s a catch. Many animals and plants eke out seemingly unremarkable lives. Passive, constrained, modest, threatened. Then, in a blink of evolutionary time, they flourish spectacularly. Once we start to look, these 'sleeping beauties’ crop up everywhere. But why? Looking at th of life, from apex predators to keystone crops, and informed by his own cutting-edge experiments, renowned scientist Andreas Wagner demonstrates that innovations can come frequently and cheaply to nature, well before they are needed. We have found prehistoric bacteria that harbour the remarkable ability to fight off 21st-century antibiotics. And human history fits the pattern too, as life-changing technologies are invented only to be forgotten, languishing in the shadows before they finally take off. In probing the mysteries of these sleeping beauties, Wagner reveals a crucial part of nature’s rich and strange tapestry.
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Book Title: Sleeping Beauties : the Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Item Height: 1.2 in
Topic: Life Sciences / Molecular Biology, Life Sciences / Evolution, History, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Publication Year: 2023
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Science
Item Weight: 20 oz
Author: Andreas Wagner
Item Length: 8.8 in
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
