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Evolution

Accidental Species Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

Gee Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780226271200, ISBN: HB: 9780226284880, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings

The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary ima...

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Mammals

Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis Strategic Metabolic Retreats

Elsner Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226246710, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 14 line drawings

The comparative physiology of seemingly disparate organisms often serves as a surprising pathway to biological enlightenment. How appropriate, then, that Robert Elsner sheds new light on the remarkable physiology of diving seals through comparison wi...

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Nature

Ecology

Walden Warming Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods

Primack Richard B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226272290, ISBN: HB: 9780226682686, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be...

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Evolution

Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare How Evolution Shapes Our Loves and Fears

Orians Gordon H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226271828, ISBN: HB: 9780226003238, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 55 halftones, 1 line drawing

Our breath catches and we jump in fear at the sight of a snake. We pause and marvel at the sublime beauty of a sunrise. These reactions are no accident; in fact, many of our human responses to nature are steeped in our deep evolutionary past – we fea...

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Sea Life

Ecology

Western Flyer Steinbeck's Boat, the Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of Pacific Fisheries

Bailey Kevin M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226116761, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 31 halftones

In January 2010, the Gemini was moored in the Swinomish Slough on a Native American reservation near Anacortes, Washington. Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the rusted and dilapidated boat was in fact the most famous fishing vessel ever to have sailed...

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Mammals

Mammals of South America, Volume 2 Rodents

Patton James L., Pardinas Ulyses F. J., D'Elia Guillermo

ISBN: HB: 9780226169576, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
1384 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 548 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over fifty years. Increases in the reach of field research and the variety of field survey methods, the in...

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Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Rereading the Fossil Record The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline

Sepkoski David

ISBN: PB: 9780226272948, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 42 halftones

Although fossils have provided some of the most important evidence for evolution, the discipline of paleontology has not always had a central place in evolutionary biology. Beginning in Darwin's day, and for much of the twentieth century, paleontolog...

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Evolution

Haeckel's Embryos Images, Evolution, and Fraud

Hopwood Nick

ISBN: HB: 9780226046945, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
392 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 202 colour plates, 2 tables

Pictures from the past powerfully shape current views of the world. In books, television programs, and websites, new images appear alongside others that have survived from decades ago. Among the most famous are drawings of embryos by the Darwinist Er...

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Evolution

Darwin's Orchids Then and Now

Edens-Meier Retha, Bernhardt Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226044910, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 33 halftones, 14 line drawings, 14 tables

For biologists, 2009 was an epochal year: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now known simply as "The Origin of Species". But for many botanists, Darwin's true legacy starts with the 1862...

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Evolution

History

Cultural History of Heredity

Muller-Wille Staffan, Rheinberger Hans-Jorg

ISBN: PB: 9780226213484, ISBN: HB: 9780226545707, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones, 9 line illus.

It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger offer a suc...

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