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    Micro Life

    Hardback | 336 pages | English
    By (Author) DK, Chris Packham

    Explore the everyday miracle of the microscopic world With spectacular macro photography and microscope images, this book reveals a hidden, living world full of intricate structures beyond the naked eye. Included...

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    Explore the everyday miracle of the microscopic world

    With spectacular macro photography and microscope images, this book reveals a hidden, living world full of intricate structures beyond the naked eye. Included are the tiniest insects and spiders, but looking deeper, you will discover truly microscopic creatures - even bacteria and viruses.

    Earth is home to more microbes, and more different types of microbes, than any other living organism. Bacteria on Earth outweigh humans by 1,100 to 1 and without them, all world ecosystems would collapse. This book reveals this vital, unseen realm, but it includes large life-forms too, in extreme close-up, so that you can wonder at the beauty of a pollen grain, a butterfly egg, the spore of a fungus, and the nerve cell of a human.

    The spectacular imagery in Micro Life exploits cutting-edge technology, such as focus-stacked macro photographs, as well as micrographs (microscope images) including scanning electron micrographs. Illustrations nearby explain the science - from the workings of an insect's eye to how a plant "breathes" through its leaves. The biology builds into a reference on how life works - and how all organisms, however small, solve the basic problems of movement, reproduction, energy, communication, and defence.

    Micro Life is a beautiful and surprising look at the natural world.

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    • Hardback | 336 pages
    • 261 x 308 x 27mm | 2,038g
    • Dorling Kindersley Ltd
    • 28 Oct 2021
    • London, United Kingdom
    • DK
    • English
    • 0241412757
    • 9780241412756
    Type: Book Vendor: DK Knowledge SKU: 9780241412756 Availability: Out of stock

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