{"product_id":"biograffiti-a-natural-selection-0393000311","title":"BioGraffiti: A Natural Selection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393000311\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Burns, John M.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBioGraffiti is a highly diverting mix of the whimsical and scholarly, of science and art. It will be read-and reread-by those interested in biology and life. -Paul R. Ehrlich Legend has it (it may even be true) that J. B. S. Haldane, when asked by a clergyman what he could infer about God from the works of creation, responded, He must have had an inordinate fondness for beetles. Were I asked to infer something essential about Homo sapiens from his work, I should probably reply that this zoological odd-ball required humor to lighten a life taken too seriously. How else can we explain the fact that very profession has its underground classic of humorous self-deprecation and verse? Garstangs Larval Forms has long filled this role for evolutionary biology. But, as a residual Victorian, Garstang turned out some mighty stuffy poems-and recapitulatory theory of the details of invertebrate morphology do no reside on the frontier of modern biology. But voyeurs and hedonists can now rejoice, for John Burns has produced a worthy successor, a work full of all that is modern in evolutionary biology-mathematical modeling, ecological strategies, ethological theories and, oh yes, plenty of sex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51855924003104,"sku":"NEW0393000311","price":20.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/519f6qtdLfL.jpg?v=1781543810","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/biograffiti-a-natural-selection-0393000311","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}