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Fly: An Experimental Life Book
Every school child has dozed over texts describing the life cycle of the humble fruit fly; it's so ubiquitious in experimental biology as to seem hardly worth lingering over. Martin Brookes aims to swat that notion with the wonderfully entertaining Fly: An Experimental Life. The principles of evolutionary biology can be usefully applied to literary fashions. As soon as a commercially successful adaptation has been established in the bookshop ecology, a plethora of offspring and imitators will rush to fill the niche: until the whole section is crowded out and another adaptation is needed. Such an adaptation is the popular science book focusing on a relatively mundane item. In recent years we've seen winning books on the potato, and codfish, among others--now here's one on fruit flies. … read more...
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