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

  • Leslie Brunetta &
  • Catherine L. Craig
Yale University Press: 2010. 248 pp. $30, £20 9780300149227 | ISBN: 978-0-3001-4922-7

The complex proteins that make up spider silks, which are extruded threads that have evolved to work in the dry state, are easily studied and provide us with windows on to protein folding, synthetic biology and nanomaterials. Silks have diversified through selection over millennia to produce thousands of types, and are superbly fit for their purposes.

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