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Evolution

Adaptation in Metapopulations How Interaction Changes Evolution

Wade Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226129730, ISBN: HB: 9780226129563, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 27 line drawings, 11 tables

All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of amphibians in ver...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

America's Snake The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake

Levin Ted

ISBN: HB: 9780226040646, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

There's no sound quite like it, or as viscerally terrifying: the ominous rattle of the timber rattlesnake. It's a chilling shorthand for imminent danger, and a reminder of the countless ways that nature can suddenly snuff us out. Yet most of us have...

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Nature

Amazing Rare Things The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery

Attenborough Sir David, Owens Susan, Clayton Martin, Alexandratos Rea

ISBN: PB: 9780300215724, Yale University Press, September 2015
224 pp., 25.1x19.4 cm, 160 colour illus.

The Royal Collection, held at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, and Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, has been shaped by the personal tastes of kings and queens for more than five hundred years. The Collection s exquisite natural history artworks in "Amazin...

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Entomology

All about Butterflies of Australia

Sankowsky Garry

ISBN: PB: 9781921517433, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, August 2015
176 pp., 21x15 cm, 300 colour illus.

This new title investigates the always-popular subject of Australian butterflies.Early chapters explore the lifecycle of these magestic insects, with stunning images showing the progression from egg through caterpillar and chrysalis stages to adult b...

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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

Atlas of Selected Land Vertebrates of Madagascar

Goodman Steven M., Raherilalao Marie Jeanne

ISBN: HB: 9782953892352, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
308 pp., 40x29 cm, 446 colour plates and maps

One of the largest islands in the world, Madagascar is home to an astonishing array of endemic vertebrate biodiversity. While recent decades have seen numerous publications on the subject – ranging from technical papers to species descriptions and fi...

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Ecology

Nature

All the Trees of the Forest Israel's Woodlands from the Bible to the Present

Tal Alon

ISBN: HB: 9780300189506, Yale University Press, November 2013
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

In this insightful and provocative book Alon Tal provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, tracing their history from the Bible to the present, and outlines the effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into prosperous parks, rangelands a...

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Evolution

Animal Body Size Linking Pattern and Process across Space, Time, and Taxonomic Group

Smith Felisa A., Lyons S. Kathleen

ISBN: HB: 9780226012148, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 26 line drawings, 24 tables

Galileo wrote that "nature cannot produce a horse as large as twenty ordinary horses or a giant ten times taller than an ordinary man unless by miracle or by greatly altering the proportions of his limbs and especially of his bones" – a statement tha...

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Birds

Art of Migration Birds, Insects, and the Changing Seasons in Chicagoland

Macnamara Peggy

ISBN: HB: 9780226046297, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
128 pp., 15.2x20.3 cm, 54 colour illus.

Tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds weighing less than a nickel fly from the upper Midwest to Costa Rica every fall, crossing the six-hundred-mile Gulf of Mexico without a single stop. One of the many creatures that commute on the Mississippi Flyway as p...

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Mammals

Evolution

Animal Personalities Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution

Carere Claudio, Maestripieri Dario

ISBN: PB: 9780226921976, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
520 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 tables, 12 halftones, 11 line illus.

Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they'll assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and nondomesticated animals – from invertebrates to monkeys and apes...

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