"An awe-inspiring tour of nature" from a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer (San Francisco Examiner).

Natalie Angier has taken great pains to learn her science from the molecule up. She knows all that scientists know -- and sometimes more -- about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, and about the impact of female and male preferences on evolution. The Beauty of the Beastly takes the pulse of everything from the supple structure of DNA to the erotic ways of barn swallows, queen bees, and the endangered, otherworldly primate called the aye-aye.

Few writers have ever covered so many facets of biology so evocatively in one book. Timothy Ferris, author of the acclaimed Coming of Age in the Milky Way, says Angier is "one of the strongest and wittiest science writers in the world today."

"Like Alan Lightman or Lewis Thomas," writes Nobel laureate David Baltimore, "she draws from science a meaning that few scientists see, and her writing takes on an unusual dimension of artistry." And Sherwin Nuland, author of How We Die, believes that "Natalie Angier is in the tradition of the great nature writers."

"A gold mine." -- The New York Times

"From cockroaches to cheetahs, DNA to elephant dung, Angier gives us intimate and dramatic portraits of nature that readers will find rewarding." -- Publishers Weekly

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