Life On Earth (Record no. 3473)
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| control field | 3473 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20240512144011.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0002190915 |
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| Transcribing agency | Booku |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 573 ATT |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | David Attenborough |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Life On Earth |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from the emergence of tiny one-celled organisms in the primeval slime more than 3,000 million years ago to apelike but upright man, equally well adapted to life in the rain forest of New Guinea and the glass canyons of a modern metropolis. Told through an examination of animal and plant life today - with occasional juxtapositions of extinct fossil forms to reveal the origin of living creatures - "Life on Earth" is an astonishing pageant of life, with a cast of characters drawn from the whole range of living animals the world over. |
| Expansion of summary note | Attenborough's perceptive, dynamic approach to the evolution of some four million species of living organisms that populate the planet is to trace the most significant thread in the history of each major group. He then proceeds to explain from the evidence of living representatives and fossil remains why certain animals adapted and survived, evolved to more complex and "higher" forms of life, while others, by some inherent limitation imposed by their physiology or structure, failed and became extinct. "Life on Earth" is a book of wonders. A model of clarity and ease as a guide, Attenborough takes the reader around the world with him into jungles where orchids have petals that "impersonate" wasps to attract pollinating insects; to Australia, where honeypot ants force feed nectar to workers of a special caste, then hang them up by their forelegs like living storage jars; to remote mountains in Japan where little monkeys called macaques have learned to combat the winter snows by bathing in hot volcanic springs. |
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| Koha item type | Book |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General Non Fiction | Booku Library Services | Booku Library Services | 12/05/2024 | Donation | 573 ATT | 0002190915 | 12/05/2024 | 1 | 12/05/2024 | Book |