Imagine if Dr. Seuss met Mr. Darwin and wrote a book... For centuries, children s books like The Jungle Book and Aesop's Fables have delighted millions with mythical stories for why animals do what they do. These stories are imaginative, but there are facts about real animals and plants that are even more fantastical. Great Adaptations contains ten illustrated poems written by Tiffany Taylor in collaboration with some of the most renowned scientists in their field.
Dr Tiffany Taylor is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading. When she is not pretending to be a grown up in the lab, Tiffany Taylor loves to read silly poems about almost anything. An advocate of science communication for children, she believes stories are a magic key to open and ignite young minds - a powerful tool to inspire the next generation of scientists, who one day, might just change the way we see our world. Tiffany Taylor is an active researcher in evolutionary biology, author of Little Changes, and a big kid at heart.