Snakes and the evolution of Harry Greene

From: Natural History | Date: July 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature, by Harry W Greene. Photographs by Michael and Patricia Fogden. University of California Press, $45; 351 pp., illus.

I can think of no better way to capture the essence of this astonishing book than to relate a simple fact: twice while reading it, I was moved to tears. How can a scholarly treatise on the biology of snakes evoke such a response? The answer has something to do with the masterful way Harry Greene, a curator of herpetology at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and professor of integrative biology at Berkeley, blends an encyclopedic ...

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