書名 : Animal weapons :the evolution of battle /
紀錄類型 : 書目-語言資料,印刷品: 單行本
正題名[資料類型標示]/作者 : Animal weapons :Douglas J. Emlen ; illustrated by David J. Tuss.
其他題名 : the evolution of battle /
其他題名 : Evolution of battle
作者 : Emlen, Douglas John,
其他作者 : Tuss, David J.
版本項 : 1st Picador ed.
出版者 : New York, New York :Picador,2015.
面頁冊數 : xv, 270 p., [16] p. of plates :ill. (some col.) ;21 cm.
附註 : Originally published: 2014.
內容註 : Extremes -- Starting small. Camouflage and armor ; Teeth and claws ; Claspers, graspers, and giant jaws -- Triggering the race. Competition ; Economic defensibility ; Duels -- Running its course. Costs ; Reliable signals ; Deterrence ; Sneaks and cheats ; End of the race -- Parallels. Castles of sand and stone ; Ships, planes, and states ; Mass destruction.
得獎註 : Phi Beta Kappa Book Award.
標題 : Animal weapons.
ISBN : 9781250075314 (pbk.) :
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aExtremes -- Starting small. Camouflage and armor ; Teeth and claws ; Claspers, graspers, and giant jaws -- Triggering the race. Competition ; Economic defensibility ; Duels -- Running its course. Costs ; Reliable signals ; Deterrence ; Sneaks and cheats ; End of the race -- Parallels. Castles of sand and stone ; Ships, planes, and states ; Mass destruction.
520 $aEmlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he's been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons. As singular and strange as some of the weapons we encounter on these pages are, we learn that similar factors set their evolution in motion. Emlen uses these patterns to draw parallels to the way we humans develop and employ our own weapons, and have since battle began.
586 $aPhi Beta Kappa Book Award.
650 0$aAnimal weapons.
650 0$aAnimal defenses.
650 0$aDefensive (Military science)
650 0$aAggressive behavior in animals.
650 0$aFighting (Psychology)
700 1 $aTuss, David J.