Sleeping Beauties

Sleeping Beauties
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9780861545285
ISBN-13 : 0861545281
Rating : 4/5 (281 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sleeping Beauties by : Andreas Wagner

Download or read book Sleeping Beauties written by Andreas Wagner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life innovates constantly, producing perfectly adapted species – but there’s a catch. A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF 2023 'Hopeful and fascinating.' THE TIMES 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 the book 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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