Venomous : how Earth's deadliest creatures mastered biochemistry / Christie Wilcox.
"Biologist Christie Wilcox investigates and illuminates the animals of our nightmares, arguing that they hold the keys to a deeper understanding of evolution, adaptation, and immunity. She reveals just how venoms function and what they do to the human body. With Wilcox as our guide, we encounte...
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New York :
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2016.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Masters of physiology -- Death becomes them -- Of mongeese and men -- To the pain -- Bleed it out -- All the better to eat you with -- Don't move -- Mind games -- Lethal lifesavers. | |
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