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Archaeology & Paleontology

Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Brinkman Paul D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752167, ISBN: HB: 9780226074726, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
345 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 31 halftones

The so-called "Bone Wars" of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinos...

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Evolution

Darwin Deleted Imagining a World without Darwin

Bowler Peter J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226068671, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones, 4 line illus.

The ideas and terminology of Darwinism are so pervasive these days that it seems impossible to avoid them, let alone imagine a world without them. But in this remarkable rethinking of scientific history, Peter J. Bowler does just that. He asks:What i...

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Ecology

Evolution

Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate

Brodie Jedediah F., Post Eric S., Doak Daniel F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226074634, ISBN: HB: 9780226074627, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 35 halftones, 37 line illus.

Human-induced climate change is emerging as one of the gravest threats to biodiversity in history, and while a vast amount of literature on the ecological impact of climate change exists, very little has been dedicated to the management of wildlife p...

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Evolution

Evolutionary Restraints The Contentious History of Group Selection

Borrello Mark E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226067032, ISBN: HB: 9780226067018, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
228 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones, 1 line illus.

Much of the history of the evolutionary debate since Darwin has focused on the level at which natural selection occurs. Most biologists acknowledge multiple levels of selection – from the gene, the trait, and the organism, to the family, the group, a...

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Evolution

Genetics

Wetware A Computer in Every Living Cell

Bray Dennis

ISBN: PB: 9780300167849, Yale University Press, February 2011
280 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex sequences of movements without the benefit of a nervous system? This book off...

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