Flying Sand Dollars, Left-handed Crabs, Giant Earwigs, and Other Curiosities

In this uniquely personal collection of essays a self-proclaimed "e;incorrigible"e; and sometimes politically incorrect, biologist merges autobiography and history with accounts of intriguing animals and plants. In these essays, expect the unexpected as the author traces the parallel lives of Beatrix Potter and Lyn Margulis; or what Napoleon Bonaparte had in common with Giant Earwigs and how, in t...