Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture Wagner Andreas
Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture Wagner Andreas Why do some of nature's marvels have to wait millions of years for their time in the sun?Life innovates…
Specifikacia Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture Wagner Andreas
Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture Wagner Andreas
Why do some of nature's marvels have to wait millions of years for their time in the sun?Life innovates constantly, producing perfectly adapted species - but there's a catch.Many animals and plants eke out seemingly unremarkable lives. Then, in a blink of evolutionary time, they flourish spectacularly. Passive, constrained, modest, threatened.
But why?Looking at the book of life, from apex predators to keystone crops, and informed by his own cutting-edge experiments, renowned scientist Andreas Wagner demonstrates that innovations can come frequently and cheaply to nature, well before they are needed. Once we start to look, these 'sleeping beauties' crop up everywhere. We have found prehistoric bacteria that harbour the remarkable ability to fight off 21st-century antibiotics.
And human history fits the pattern too, as life-changing technologies are invented
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