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Evolution

Mitani John C., Call Josep, Kappeler Peter M., Palombit Ryne A., Silk Joan B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226531724, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
744 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 44 tables, 157 halftones, 34 line illus.

In 1987, the University of Chicago Press published "Primate Societies", the standard reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and scientists. But in the twenty-five years since its publication, new theories and...

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Ecology

Mammals

Extreme Measures The Ecological Energetics of Birds and Mammals

McNab Brian K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561233, ISBN: HB: 9780226561226, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 7 halftones, 97 line illus.

Along with reproduction, balancing energy expenditure with the limits of resource acquisition is essential for both a species and a population to survive. But energy is a limited resource, as we know well, so birds and mammals – the most energy-inten...

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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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Sea Life

Entirely Synthetic Fish How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World

Halverson Anders

ISBN: PB: 9780300140880, Yale University Press, July 2011
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Anders Halverson provides an exhaustively researched and grippingly rendered account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the most commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the United States. Discovered in the remote waters of north...

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Sea Life

Evolution

Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes

Evans Jonathan P., Pilastro Andrea, Schlupp Ingo

ISBN: HB: 9780226222745, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
472 pp., 28x22 cm, 54 maps, 25 tables, 34 line illus.

The history of biology is populated by numerous model species or organisms. But few vertebrate groups have aided evolutionary and ecological research more than the live-bearing fishes of the family Poeciliidae. Found throughout tropical and subtropic...

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Evolution

Evidence for Evolution

Rogers Alan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226723822, ISBN: HB: 9780226723808, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
128 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 tables, 27 line illus.

According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And it's no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of today's biology courses and textbooks dwell on the mechanisms of evolution – natural selection, genetic drift,...

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Evolution

History

Essential Naturalist Timeless Readings in Natural History

Graham Michael H., Parker Joan, Dayton Paul K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226305707, ISBN: HB: 9780226305691, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
552 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 39 tables, 4 halftones, 18 line illus.

Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But...

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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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Nature

Ecuador Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual

Vriesendorp Corine, Alverson William S., del Campo Alvaro, Stotz Douglas F., Moskovits Debra K., Caceres Segundo Fuentes, Tapia Byron Coronel, Anderson Elizabeth P.

ISBN: PB: 9780914868736, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, February 2010
318 pp., 27.3x20.7 cm, 4 maps, 8 graphs, 12 tables, 20 colour illus.

The remote, rugged Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual is one of the last intact mountainous regions in Ecuador and serves as the most important remaining refuge for endangered, range-restricted flora and fauna of the Ecuadorian Andes. In October 2008 scienti...

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