How dinosaurs ran and other scientific insights
Subtitle: a second collection of articles on how things happen.
Contributors: Scientific American, inc.
Publisher: Scientifc American
Published: 1991
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Biology
Other titles: Scientific American.
Notes: Cover title.

Essays previously published in: Scientific American, 1985-1991.
Table of contents: title: How dinosaurs ran / by R. McNeill Alexander; title: How plants make oxygen / by Govindjee and William J. Coleman; title: How photoreceptor cells respond to light / by Julie L. Schnapf and Denis A. Baylor; title: How cells maintain stability / by Igor N. Todorov; title: How cells absorb glucose / by Gustav E. Lienhard ... [et al.]; title: How an animal virus gets into and out of its host cell / by Kai Simons, Henrik Garoff and Ari Helenius; title: How embryonic nerve cells recognize one another / by Corey S. Goodman and Michael J. Bastiani; title: How genes control an innate behavior / by Richard H. Scheller and Richard Axel; title: How LDL receptors influence cholesterol and atherosclerosis / by Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein; title: How sea turtles navigate / by Kenneth J. Lohmann; title: How a tadpole becomes a frog / by William Etkin; title: How birds sing / by Crawford H. Greenewalt; title: How the trypanosome changes its coat / by John E. Donelson and Mervyn J. Turner.