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Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve.
For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers.
The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms.
The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change.
The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery.
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This book will inspire you to change the way you think about the world and your relationship to everything in it.
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Superlative is the story of extreme evolution, and what we can learn from it about ourselves, our planet, and the cosmos.
Learn about Monorhaphis chuni, the oldest discovered animal, which is providing insights into the connection between our terrestrial and aquatic worlds.
Get to know the axolotl, which has the longest-known genome and may hold the secret to cellular regeneration.
Go for a swim with a ghost shark, the slowest-evolving creature known to humankind, which is teaching us new ways to think about immunity.
As it turns out, there\'s a lot of value in paying close attention to the oddballs nature has to offer.
Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve.
For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers.
The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms.
The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change.
The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery.
The world\'s largest land mammal could help us end cancer.
Welcome to the biggest, fastest, deadliest science book you\'ll ever read
