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Description for Cockroach
Paperback. The cockroach could not have scuttled along, almost unchanged, for two hundred and fifty million years - some two hundred and forty-nine before man evolved - unless it was doing something right. This book examines the natural history, symbolism and cultural significance of this poorly understood and much-maligned insect. Series: Animal S. Num Pages: 200 pages, 44 black & white illustrations, 40 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; PSVT7; WNCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 190 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 3540.
The cockroach could not have scuttled along, almost unchanged, for two hundred and fifty million years - some two hundred and forty-nine before man evolved - unless it was doing something right. It would be fascinating as well as instructive to have access to the cockroach's own record of its life on earth, to know its point of view on evolution and species domination over the millennia. Such chronicles would perhaps radically alter our perceptions of the dinosaur's span and importance - and that of our own development and significance. We might learn that throughout all these aeons, the dominant ... Read more
The cockroach could not have scuttled along, almost unchanged, for two hundred and fifty million years - some two hundred and forty-nine before man evolved - unless it was doing something right. It would be fascinating as well as instructive to have access to the cockroach's own record of its life on earth, to know its point of view on evolution and species domination over the millennia. Such chronicles would perhaps radically alter our perceptions of the dinosaur's span and importance - and that of our own development and significance. We might learn that throughout all these aeons, the dominant ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
Animal S.
Condition
New
Weight
3540g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861891921
SKU
V9781861891921
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About Marion Copeland
Marion Copeland is former Professor of English at Holyoke Community College, Massachusetts, US.
Reviews for Cockroach
thoroughly researched, eloquently written and richly illustrated ... an outstanding polemic in support of a much-loathed creature Times Literary Supplement this gripping little book is crawling with anecdotes ... New Scientist