Hairy, Spiny or Naked
Andrew Sugden: Leaves, 7 February 2013
The Life of a Leaf
by Steven Vogel.
Chicago, 303 pp., £22.50, November 2012,978 0 226 85939 2 Show More
by Steven Vogel.
Chicago, 303 pp., £22.50, November 2012,
“... is it manifest in so many different forms and guises? The answers, as one can begin to infer from Steven Vogel’s book, lie in the interplay of evolution and physics. A leaf is a fine exemplar of the challenges posed by the physical world to the biological, because it’s on the front line. Unlike an animal, a leaf is absolutely stuck with its lot: it ... ”
