Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd

Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis

Kim Todd

330 pages paperback 2007

4 editions

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Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterfly pupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling cells on the pupa's skin look like a galaxy. She can activate a single gene or knock it out. What she can't do is discover how the ...

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