Life in a Shell: A Physiologist's View of a Turtle

by Donald C. Jackson

Book Overview

Trundling along in essentially the same form for some 220 million years, turtles have seen dinosaurs come and go, mammals emerge, and humankind expand its dominion. Is it any wonder the persistent reptile bested the hare? In this engaging book physiologist Donald Jackson shares a lifetime of observation of this curious creature, allowing us a look under the shell of an animal at once so familiar and so strange.

Here we discover how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674072308
• ISBN13: 9780674072305
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"