Leslie Brunetta, Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating

Start: 06/29/2010 7:00 pm

"This wonderful book cures arachnophobia for any lucky reader. Brunetta and Craig combine superb scholarship with engaging writing, providing a compelling introduction to evolution in action through the lens of spiders and their silks."

Simon Levin, author of Fragile Dominion

"In Spider Silk, Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig offer a history of this marvelous stuff that readers will find surprisingly compelling—for not only the astonishing complexity of spider silk itself, but also the many uses that spiders have created over the ages. It is, in other words, the epitome of evolutionary innovation."

Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite Rex

Leslie Brunetta is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, Technology Review, and the Princeton Alumni Weekly as well as on NPR and elsewhere.