| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 326 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-307) and indexes. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Introduction; ONE: A PARLIAMENT OF MONSTERS: On the Breadth and Scope of Developmental Anomalies; TWO: ARRESTING FEATURES: Development is All about Time; THREE: DO THE LOCOMOTION: How We Learn to Move Our Bodies; FOUR: LIFE AND LIMB: How Limbs are Made, Lost, Replaced and Transformed; FIVE: ANYTHING GOES: When it Comes to Sex, Expect Ambiguity; EPILOGUE: MONSTROUS BEHAVIOUR: Much to Learn from the Odd and Unusual; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources and Suggested Reading; Author Index; Subject Index. |
| Summary |
From two-legged goats and double-headed snakes, to 'Cyclops' infants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead, Mark S. Blumberg looks at 'freak' bodily anomalies in both humans and other animals to reveal how such deformities provide valuable windows on the intimate connections between genetics, evolution, development, and the environment. - ;Two-legged goats, conjoined twins, 'Cyclops' infants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead, double-headed snakes, and Laloo, a man with a partially formed twin attached to his chest ... In Freaks of Nature, Mark S. Blumberg turns a sci. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Abnormalities, Human.
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Abnormalities, Human. |
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Animals -- Abnormalities.
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Animals -- Abnormalities. |
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Evolution (Biology) -- Popular works.
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Evolution (Biology) |
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Popular works.
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| Subject |
Natural selection.
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Natural selection. |
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Monsters.
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Monsters. |
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Blumberg, Mark Samuel, 1961- Freaks of nature. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780199213054 (DLC) 2009280514 (OCoLC)501314676 |
| ISBN |
9780191549915 (electronic book) |
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0191549916 (electronic book) |
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9780198043430 (electronic book) |
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0198043430 (electronic book) |
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9780199213054 (hardback) |
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0199213054 (hardback) |
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9780199213061 (paperback) |
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0199213062 (paperback) |
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