Presents animals that use camoflauge to survive, including the harlequin filefish, the gliding lizard, and the cuckoo finch.

This is a stellar survey of biology, of life on earth and how it works.

We all know that our friends, family, and beloved pets are living things. So are the animals in the zoo, plants in the ground, and teeny creatures we can't even see. Readers of this illuminating book will learn fun facts about many different kinds of living things, from tiny parasites and fungi to huge elephants and sharks.

"The renowned Nobel Prize-winning scientist's elegant and concise explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today. Hailed by Philip Pullman as "a great communicator" who is also "as distinguished a scientist as there could be," Paul Nurse writes with delight at life's richness and a sense of the urgent role of biology in our time. With What Is Life? he delivers a brief but powerful work of popular science in the vein of Carlo...

"The Exploring Life Cycles series introduces readers to the different ways plants and animals go through their life cycles"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction to ways that species have adapted over time to differing environments.

The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled watchmaker. In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins crafts an elegant riposte to show that the complex process of Darwinian natural selection is unconscious and automatic. If natural selection can be said to play the role of a watchmaker in nature, it is a...

Every egg there has ever been, is an emblem of survival. Yet the evolution of the animal egg is the dramatic subplot missing in many accounts of how life on Earth came to be. Quite simply, without this universal biological phenomenon, animals as we know them, including us, could not have evolved and flourished. In Infinite Life, zoology correspondent Jules Howard takes the reader on a mind-bending journey from the churning coastlines of the Cambrian...

"An overview of biology for kids covering topics such as photosynthesis, plant classes and reproduction, animal senses and body systems, food chains, reproduction, and more"--Provided by publisher.

"Sometimes nature is the world's greatest innovator. From butterfly wings to kingfisher birds, nature has been inspiring humans to build better and smarter for generations. This introduction to biomimicry is filled with stunning photographs and amazing facts to encourage engagement and spark curiosity in early readers"-- Provided by publisher.