Life of a Leaf

Name: Life of a Leaf
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ISBN: 9780226104775

ISBN-10: 022610477X

ISBN-13: 9780226104775

Edition: 2013

Authors: Steven Vogel

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In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what organisms can do and offers innumerable opportunities for evolving fascinating ways of challenging those limits. Here, Vogel explains these interactions, examining through the example of the leaf the extraordinary designs that enable life to adapt to its physical world. In Vogel’s account, the leaf serves as a biological everyman, an ordinary and ubiquitous living thing that nonetheless speaks…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface



Starting the Story



Seeking Illumination



Diffusing Gases



Flowing Gases



Leaking Water



Raising Water



Interfacing with Air



Keeping Cool



Cleaning Surfaces



Staying Unfrozen



Staying Stiff and High



Surviving a Storm



Making and Maintaining



Winding It Up


List of Symbols, Abbreviations, and Conversions


Notes


References and Index of Citations


General Index