Death on earth : adventures in evolution and mortality / Jules Howard.

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2016.

288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Includes index.

This is a dead frog. Life and death in the universe ; Senescence and what waits for the lucky few ; Fear and loathing in Birchwood ; Free radicals and the secrets within ; This is a dead frog -- The experimental pig phase. The circus under the tent ; Sex and death : the contract killer ; Coffee with the widow-maker ; Suicide, snowy owls and the executioner inside ; This is not a sheep ; The grotto salamander and the guano ; The horrid ground-weaver ; Dark matters -- Journey to the end of the shitatite. Bring out your dead ants ; Mourning has broken ; Who wants to live forever? ; No, this is a dead frog -- The meaning of the loa loa.