
Superlative
The Biology of Extremes
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George Newbern
Welcome to the biggest, fastest, deadliest science book you'll ever hear.
The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms.
For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers. Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve.
As it turns out, there’s a lot of value in paying close attention to the “oddballs” nature has to offer.
Go for a swim with a ghost shark, the slowest-evolving creature known to humankind, which is teaching us new ways to think about immunity. Get to know the axolotl, which has the longest-known genome and may hold the secret to cellular regeneration. Learn about Monorhaphis chuni, the oldest discovered animal, which is providing insights into the connection between our terrestrial and aquatic worlds.
Superlative is the story of extreme evolution, and what we can learn from it about ourselves, our planet, and the cosmos. It's a tale of crazy-fast cheetahs and super-strong beetles, of microbacteria and enormous plants, of whip-smart dolphins and killer snakes.
This book will inspire you to change the way you think about the world and your relationship to everything in it.
©2018 by Matthew D. LaPlante. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing Inc., all rights reserved. Published by arrangement with BenBella Books.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Fascinating survey of amazing biology
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Gret insight
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excellent, entertaining and fascinating!
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More so I think this book opens the hard conversations about things as simple as humans being not being the “most intelligent” creatures on the planet. And even deeper how sentient are our planet mates. And still further how much empathy and compassion do they possess and is their memory based and driven by genes or like humans based only on that individuals experience.
Wonderful book I will recommend to many. FYI the narrator was great.
Enlightening, funny
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it is also a great book on exploring how science is being applied for developing new products, medicines through the study of extreme animals and plants.
One of my new favorite books.
Awesome book
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Very entertaining book of biology!
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Reasonably interesting
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