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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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Nature

History of Art

Visible Empire Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

Bleichmar Daniela

ISBN: HB: 9780226058535, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
288 pp., 24.1x22 cm, 1 table, 2 halftones, 99 colour illus.

Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collect...

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Entomology

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

Brunetta Leslie, Craig Catherine L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181463, Yale University Press, February 2012
248 pp., 22.7x14.8 cm, 12 colour illus.

Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wonder...

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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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Mammals

Elephants on the Edge What Animals Teach Us about Humanity

Bradshaw G. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300167832, Yale University Press, November 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behaviour, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and...

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Mammals

Wild Justice The Moral Lives of Animals

Bekoff Marc, Pierce Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780226041636, ISBN: HB: 9780226041612, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones

Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. Yet what are we to make of a female gorilla in a German...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Lichens of North America

Brodo Irwin M., Duran Sharnoff Sylvia, Sharnoff Steven, Laurie-Bourque Susan, Raven Peter H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300082494, Yale University Press, November 2001
828 pp., 28.5x25 cm, glossary, 927 colour plates, 821 black&white illus.

Lichens are a unique form of plant life, the product of a symbiotic association between an alga and a fungus. The beauty and importance of lichens have long been overlooked, despite their abundance and diversity in most parts of North America and els...

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