Spider silk : evolution and 400 million years of spinning, waiting, snagging, and mating / Leslie Brunetta, Catherine L. Craig.
Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.Description: xvi, 229 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780300149227 (alk. paper)
- 0300149220 (alk. paper)
- 595.4/4 22
- QL459 .B78 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index.
A timeline of the spider fossil record -- Fossils -- Living fossils -- Chance and change -- Outward and upward -- Triumph over thin air -- Small changes, big benefits -- Spinning, running, jumping, swimming -- Going vertical -- Links -- Now you see it, now you don't -- Beyond "perfect" -- Endless forms.