Why Size Matters
Subtitle: From Bacteria to Blue Whales
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780691128504
Subjects: Popular science; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Biological Sciences; Birds and Natural History; Science / Developmental Biology; Life Sciences - Biology - Developmental Biology; Body size
First sentence: In the seventeenth century it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being-a homunculus-that was planted inside the womb.