Animal Parasites and Messmates

Beneden, P. J.

9,40 €

ISBN: 9788028341381

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 320 g

Produktinformationen "Animal Parasites and Messmates"

Animal Parasites and Messmates is an engaging nineteenth-century study of the many forms of association between animals: true parasitism, temporary predation-like dependence, commensal "messmate" living, and the subtler exchanges by which one organism profits from another. Van Beneden moves from intestinal worms and crustacean parasites to barnacles, mollusks, fishes, and insects, arranging natural history into a comparative argument about adaptation. Its style is lucid, taxonomic, and anecdotal, characteristic of Victorian popular science yet grounded in Continental zoology after Cuvier and Darwin. Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and a founder of modern parasitology, wrote from long experience as an anatomist, marine biologist, and curator of animal life cycles. His investigations into cestodes and other parasites helped clarify hosts, development, and transmission; this background explains the book's insistence that even repellent organisms be studied as orderly, purposeful participants in nature's economy. This volume is recommended to readers interested in the history of biology, ecology, and parasitology, as well as anyone who enjoys scientific prose that turns curiosity into classification. It remains a revealing document of how nineteenth-century zoology learned to see dependence not as anomaly, but as a fundamental principle of life.

Eigenschaften "Animal Parasites and Messmates"

Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Zoologie und Tierwissenschaften
Verlag:	Sharp Ink

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