TY - BOOK AU - Gould, James L. AU - Gould, Carol Grant TI - Life at the edge : : readings from Scientific American magazine SN - 0716720116 U1 - 570.1 PY - 1989/// CY - New York : PB - Freeman, KW - Biology N1 - The first life. The evolution of the earliest cells / J. William Schopf -- ; The emergence of animals / Mark A.S. McMenamin -- ; Challenges in the sea. Symbiosis in the deep sea / James J. Childress, Horst Felbeck and George N. Somero -- ; Antarctic fishes / Joseph T. Eastman and Arthur L. DeVries -- ; Intertidal fishes / Michael H. Horn and Robin N. Gibson -- ; Beating the odds. Thermoregulation in winter moths / Bernd Heinrich -- ; The physiology of the koala / Robert Degabriele -- ; Carnivorous plants / Yolande Heslop-Harrison -- ; The perils of parasitism. Communication between ants and their guests / Bert Hölldobler -- ; Slavery in ants / Edward O. Wilson -- ; How the trypanosome changes its coat / John E. Donelson and Mervyn J. Turner -- ; Viroids / T.O. Diener ER -