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Nature

Evolution Made to Order Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America

Curry Helen Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780226790862, ISBN: HB: 9780226390086, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones

In the mid-twentieth century, American plant breeders, frustrated by their dependence on natural variation in creating new crops and flowers, eagerly sought technologies that could extend human control over nature. Their search led them to celebrate...

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Evolution

Philosophy

Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death

Durand Pierre M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226747767, ISBN: HB: 9780226747620, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 3 tables

The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this question through close inspection of life and death in the earliest cellular life. As Durand shows us,...

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Evolution

Dinner with Darwin Food, Drink, and Evolution

Silvertown Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226760094, ISBN: HB: 9780226245393, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 6 line drawings

What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of waffles, of course, but these staples of breakfast bounty also share an evolutionary function: eggs, seeds (from which we derive flour by grinding), and milk have each evolved to no...

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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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Archaeology & Paleontology

Evolution

Standing between Life and Extinction Ethics and Ecology of Conserving Aquatic Species in North American Deserts

Propst David, Williams Jack, Bestgen Kevin, Hoagstrom Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226694474, ISBN: HB: 9780226694337, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 colour plates, 22 halftones

North American deserts – lands of little water – have long been home to a surprising diversity of aquatic life, from fish to insects and mollusks. But with European settlement, water extraction, resource exploitation, and invasive species set many of...

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Ecology

Evolution

Catastrophic Thinking Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene

Sepkoski David

ISBN: HB: 9780226348612, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded – by scientists, by the media, by popular culture – of the looming threat of mass extinction. We're told that human activity is currently producing a sixth mass extinction, perhaps of even greater...

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Evolution

Principles of Animal Behavior (4th Edition)

Dugatkin Lee Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226448381, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
576 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 529 colour plates, 31 halftones, 3 line drawings

Since the last edition of this definitive textbook was published in 2013, much has happened in the field of animal behavior. In this fourth edition, Lee Alan Dugatkin draws on cutting-edge new work not only to update and expand on the studies present...

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Evolution

Alfred Russel Wallace Companion

Smith Charles H., Costa James, Collard David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226622101, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Although Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was one of the most famous scientists in the world at the time of his death at the age of ninety, today he is known to many as a kind of "almost-Darwin", a secondary figure relegated to the footnotes of Darw...

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Evolution

History

Collecting Experiments Making Big Data Biology

Strasser Bruno J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226635040, ISBN: HB: 9780226634999, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Databases have revolutionized nearly every aspect of our lives. Information of all sorts is being collected on a massive scale, from Google to Facebook and well beyond, to produce new knowledge. But as the amount of information in databases explodes,...

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Evolution

History

Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose Natural History in Early America

Dugatkin Lee Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226639109, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledgling republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French Count and world-renowned naturalis...

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