Schmidt-Nielsen Autobiography Details Scientific Adventures
...C. - Indiana Jones would no doubt have hung up his famed hatand whip out of envious resignation had he read the new autobiography ofDuke physiologist Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, The Camel's Nose: Memoirs ofa Curious Scientist (Island Press, 1998). While his students and colleagues might think of the distingui...Something's fishy with Columbia chinook: females carry male's genetic signature
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