Frank Ryan - Metamorphosis: Unmasking the Mystery of How Life Transforms

Praise for Metamorphosis

Prepare your mind for its own Cambrian explosion. Frank Ryans breathtaking explanations for lifes most wondrous transformations are by turns shocking, thrilling, and revelatory.

Sy Montgomery, award-winning naturalist and
author of Birdologyand The Good, Good Pig

Has this not been themost exciting story in biology? This deeply informed account delves into the fascinating history of the study of metamorphosis. Its a saga, and Frank Ryan does it justice.

Bernd Heinrich, author of The Nesting Season,
Winter World, and Mind of the Raven

Read this book to experience the feel and excitement of a massive paradigm shift in science as told by a brilliant science writer.

Stephan Harding, author of Animate Earth:
Science, Intuition, and Gaia

You not only learn about the rich and fascinating phenomenon of animal metamorphosis, you also learn about science as a complex human endeavour in which new ideas are hardly welcomed with open arms.

Craig Holdrege, Director of The Nature Institute

Ryan makes the beauty of metamorphosis palpable, and lays down the work of those variant personalities by turns taciturn and gregarious, methodical and intuitive whove attempted to wrest from nature the secrets of this transformation. He presents both an ethnography and a history, not only of science as it is believed and accepted to have happened after the fact, but also of science in medias resscience right now, before our eyes, forming.

Lynn Margulis, University Professor of Geosciences
at the University of Massachusetts Amherst