Reviews Life in a Shell: A Physiologist’s View of a Turtle by Donald C. Jackson Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Science News March 11, 2011 at 11:02 am Buy this book A physiologist shows how shells have helped turtles survive virtually unchanged for 220 million years. Harvard Univ. Press, 2011, 178 p., $29.95.