London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2017. Octavo, paperback, photographs, black and white illustrations. What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished..... More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings, tables, graphs. Renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant have produced landmark studies of the Galapagos finches first made famous by Charles Darwin. In "How and why species multiply", they offered a complete evolutionary history of Darwin's finches since..... More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, line drawings. Illuminating the processes and patterns that link genotype to phenotype, this book seeks to explain features, characters, and developmental mechanisms that can only be understood in terms of interactions that arise above the level of..... More

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, line drawings. The worldwide prominence of snakes in religion, myth, and folklore underscores our deep connection to the serpent - but why, when so few of us have firsthand experience? The surprising answer, this book suggests, lies in the singular impact of..... More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Quarto, dustwrapper, illustrations. A stunningly illustrated book about selective breeding - the ongoing transformation of animals at the hand of man. More important, it's a book about selective breeding on a far, far grander scale - a scale that encompasses all life on Earth. We'd..... More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Large octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. James L. Patton served as Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and as Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1969 until 2001. This book aims to bring..... More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This alphabetically arranged reference, an immensely entertaining browser's delight, offers a dazzling overview of the life and thought of Charles Darwin and his incredibly wide sphere of influence. Authoritative and abundantly illustrated, it illuminates the ways in which..... More

Oxford: Academic Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, diagrams. Temperature and other climate variables are currently changing at a dramatic rate. As observations have shown, these climatic changes have serious consequences for all organisms and their ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Birds are excellent model organisms, with a very active..... More

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This RSPB-endorsed book answers all those burning questions about birds that beginners and experts alike may ask themselves as they go about their birding. How do ducks keep their feet from freezing in winter? Why don't swallows stay in Africa? Are birds..... More

Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Provides an up-to-date review and synthesis of current knowledge about phylogeny, cospeciation, and coevolution. The opening chapters present various methodological and theoretical approaches, ranging from the well-known parsimony approach to "jungles" and Bayesian statistical models. Then a series of empirical chapters discusses..... More

London: Thames and Hudson, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Spectacular, mysterious, elegant, or grotesque, the vertebrate skeletons of Earth's fossil record carry within them the traces of several billion years of life. A resounding success on its initial publication in 2007, is a unique and beautiful attempt to..... More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. Explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the elements of theories - selection, adaptation, and species - that are comples and open to multiple possible interpretatins, many of which are incompatible with one another and with other accepted practices in the..... More