Life Under the Sun

By: Peter A. Ensminger

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Hardcover | 16 March 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Which fungus is as sensitive to light as the human eye? What are the myths and facts about the ozone hole, tanning, skin cancer, and sunscreens? What is the effect of light on butterfly copulation? This entertaining collection of essays explores how various organisms - including archaebacteria, slime moulds, fungi, plants, insects, and humans - sense and respond to sunlight. The essays in Peter A. Ensminger's book cover vision, photosynthesis, and phototropism, as well as such unusual topics as the reason why light causes beer to develop a "skunky" odour. He introduces us to the kinds of eyes that have evolved in different animals, including those in a species of shrimp that is ostensibly eyeless; gives us a better appreciation of colour vision; explains how ploughing fields at night may be used to control weeds; and tells about variegate porphyria, a metabolic disease that makes people very sensitive to sunlight and may have afflicted King George III of England. These engaging essays present a complicated yet fascinating subject in an accessible way. The book will be treasured by anyone interested in the wonders of biology. There is a website that accompanies this book: http://home twcny.rr.com/geomanagement/ensmingr/lifesun.html

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"This book covers a body of recent scientific research and thinking about light in a way that is fun to read." Thomas W. Cronin, University of Maryland, Baltimore"

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Vision at the Threshold	p. 11
The Five Percent Solution to Vision	p. 20
A More Delightful Vision	p. 31
A Burning Issue	p. 43
A SAD Tale	p. 56
The Purple Disease	p. 69
A Novel Method of Weed Control	p. 80
Light and Beer	p. 95
Phycomyces, the Fungus That Sees	p. 104
Dictyostelium, the Amoeba and the Slug	p. 116
High Hopes for Hypericin	p. 128
Turning on a Butterfly	p. 139
Blue Moons and Red Tides	p. 149
Photosynthesis and the Great Salt Lake	p. 161
Too Much of a Good Thing	p. 173
A Menagerie of Molecules	p. 183
Notes	p. 201
Glossary	p. 259
Index	p. 269
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