Darwin comes to town : (Record no. 46969)
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| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| fixed length control field | 190819b2018 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781786481085 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 577.56 SCH-M |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Schilthuizen, Menno |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Darwin comes to town : |
| Remainder of title | how the urban jungle drives evolution / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Menno Schilthuizen |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Quercus |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 344 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | INR |
| Price amount | 599.00. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of the planet is urbanized, and the rest is covered by farms,pasture, and plantations. Increasingly, as we become ever more city-centric, species and ecosystems crafted by millions of years of evolution teeter on the brink of extinction - or have already disappeared.<br/><br/>A growing band of 'urban ecologists' is beginning to realize that natural selection is not so easily stopped. They are finding that more and more plants and animals are adopting new ways of living in the seemingly hostile environments of asphalt and steel that we humans have created. Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai, for example, have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts for them; otters and bobcats, no longer persecuted by humans, are waiting at the New York City gates; superb fairy-wrens in Australia have evolved different mating structures for nesting in strips of vegetation along roads; while distinct populations of London underground mosquitoes have been fashioned by the varied tube line environments.<br/><br/>Menno Schilthuizen shows us that evolution can happen far more rapidly than Darwin had dared dream. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Urban ecology (Biology) |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Evolution (Biology) |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Nature--Effect of human beings on |
| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | 570 | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | General Stack (For lending) | 19/08/2019 | 599.00 | 1 | 577.56 SCH-M | 39030 | 26/07/2023 | 15/03/2022 | 19/08/2019 | Books |
