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Hardcover Spark from the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery Book

ISBN: 142140981X

ISBN13: 9781421409818

Spark from the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery

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How encounters with strongly electric fish informed our grasp of electricity.

Spark from the Deep tells the story of how human beings came to understand and use electricity by studying the evolved mechanisms of strongly electric fish. These animals have the ability to shock potential prey or would-be predators with high-powered electrical discharges.

William J. Turkel asks completely fresh questions about the evolutionary,...

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