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Smithsonian intimate guide to human origins / by Zimmer, Carl,1966-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168) and index.
Subjects: Evolution.; Hominids.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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At the water's edge : macroevolution and the transformation of life / by Zimmer, Carl,1966-(CARDINAL)325907;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-274) and index.
Subjects: Macroevolution.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Microcosm : E. coli and the new science of life / by Zimmer, Carl,1966-(CARDINAL)325907;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-228) and index.Signature -- E. coli and the elephant -- The system -- The E. coli watcher's field guide -- Everflux -- Death and kindness -- Darwin at the drugstore -- Open source -- Palimpsest -- Playing nature -- N equals one.
Subjects: Escherichia coli.; Microbiology; Molecular biology; Genetics;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Science ink : tattoos of the science obsessed / by Zimmer, Carl,1966-(CARDINAL)325907;
Displays hundreds of tattoos that pay tribute to various scientific disciplines, revealing the stories behind the individuals who chose to permanently inscribe their obsessions in their skin, and reflecting on the science in question.
Subjects: Nature in art.; Science in art.; Tattooed people.; Tattooing.; Tattoos.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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At the water's edge : fish with fingers, whales with legs, and how life came ashore but then went back to sea / by Zimmer, Carl,1966-(CARDINAL)325907;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-274) and index.Life's warps -- After a lost balloon -- Limitless air, ho! -- How to make a hand -- Darwin's saplings -- The mind at sea -- The equation of a whale -- Along the Tethyan shores -- Walking to swimming -- A voyage out -- On the trails of macroevolution -- Evolutionary chronology.
Subjects: Macroevolution.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Parasite rex : inside the bizarre world of nature's most dangerous creatures / by Zimmer, Carl,1966-(CARDINAL)325907;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-286).A look inside the often hidden world of parasites turns the clock back to the beginning of life on Earth to answer key questions about these highly evolved and resilient life forms.
Subjects: Parasites.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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A planet of viruses / by Zimmer, Carl,1966-(CARDINAL)325907;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-101) and index."A contagious living fluid" : tobacco mosaic virus -- Old companions -- The uncommon cold : rhinovirus -- Looking down from the stars : influenza virus -- Rabbits with horns : human papillomavirus -- Everywhere, in all things -- The enemy of our enemy : bacteriophages -- Infected ocean : marine phages -- Our inner parasites : endogenous retroviruses -- The viral future -- The young scourge : human immunodeficiency virus -- Becoming an American : West Nile virus -- Predicting the next plague : severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola -- The long goodbye : smallpox -- The alien in the watercooler : mimivirus.
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Viruses.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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Soul made flesh : the discovery of the brain-- and how it changed the world / by Zimmer, Carl,1966-(CARDINAL)325907;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-348) and index.
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Brain.; Brain; Brain;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Parasite rex : inside the bizarre world of nature's most dangerous creatures / by Zimmer, Carl,1966-(CARDINAL)325907;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-286).
Subjects: Parasites.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Evolution : the triumph of an idea / by Zimmer, Carl,1966-(CARDINAL)325907;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352) and index.This dazzling companion volume to one the most important series in PBS history tells the compelling story of the theory of evolution -- from Darwin to twenty-first-century science.
Subjects: Evolution (Biology);
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 11
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