The Quarterly Review of Biology - 85 (1), 2010

Contents:

Announcements

The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund

Causality of the Relationship between Geographic Distribution and Species Abundance
Michael Krabbe Borregaard and Carsten Rahbek

Climate Change and Highland Malaria: Fresh Air for a Hot Debate
Luis Fernando Chaves and Constantianus J. M. Koenraadt

Deconstructing the Superorganism: Social Physiology, Groundplans, and Sociogenomics
Brian R. Johnson and Timothy A. Linksvayer

Why Philosophy Matters to the Working Biologist
E. O. Wiley

Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation.
Jeremy S. Kirby

The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century.
Matthew Day

Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science.
Arthur M. Shapiro

The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species.
Michael Ruse

Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the Beagle.
Michael Ruse

Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany.
Anthony J. Dellureficio

James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia.
Frederick R. Davis

Astrobiology of Earth: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of Life on a Planet in Turmoil.
Andrew D. Czaja

Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone.
Charles S. Cockell

Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms That Enable Living Things to Thrive and Survive.
Roberto Refinetti

Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record.
Gregory Mark Erickson

For the Rock Record: Geologists on Intelligent Design.
Owen Gingerich

The Human Lineage. Foundations of Human Biology.
Herman Pontzer

The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? Science Essentials.
David J. Bottjer

Environmental Biology: The Conditions of Life: Environmental Selection, Extinction, Creation, Adaptation and Overpopulation.
Sarah M. Gray

Dispersal in Plants: A Population Perspective.
Kathleen Donohue

Root Feeders: An Ecosystem Perspective.
Bruce E. Mahall

Grasses and Grassland Ecology.
Paul Gibson-Roy

Biological Control of Tropical Weeds Using Arthropods.
Saara J. DeWalt

Smithsonian at the Poles: Contributions to International Polar Year Science.
Nathan D. Smith

Biodiversity 101. Science 101.
Samantha A. Price

Bioeconomics of Invasive Species: Integrating Ecology, Economics, Policy, and Management.
Harold Mooney

Environmental Impact of Genetically Modified Crops.
Allison A. Snow

Lost Worlds: Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest.
Janalee P. Caldwell

Human Impacts on Salt Marshes: A Global Perspective.
Judith S. Weis

Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin.
Anthony Waldron

Evolution: The First Four Billion Years.
Nick H. Barton

Evolution: A Little History of a Great Idea.
Michael Ruse

Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved. Princeton Science Library.
Richard Joyce

Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach.
Peter A. Bednekoff

Observing Animal Behaviour: Design and Analysis of Quantitative Data.
Jeanne Altmann

Endocrinology of Social Relationships.
Wendy Saltzman

Signals for Survival: Animal Communication through the Lives of Great Black-backed Gulls and Herring Gulls.
Jack P. Hailman

Stress, Neurotransmitters, and Hormones: Neuroendocrine and Genetic Mechanisms.
Robert M. Sapolsky

Dopamine Transporters: Chemistry, Biology, and Pharmacology.
Randy D. Blakely

Atlas of Descriptive Histology.
Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa

Forms of Becoming: The Evolutionary Biology of Development.
Jeffrey M. Marcus

The Machinery of Life. Second Edition.
A. James Link

Essential Cell Biology.
Patricia Melloy

Population Genetics.
Nick H. Barton

A Primer of Genome Science.
Brian C. Verrelli

Genetic Effects on Environmental Vulnerability to Disease. Based on a symposium held in Dunedin, New Zealand, 8–9 November 2007. Novartis Foundation Symposium.
Alan R. Templeton

Genetics of Complex Human Diseases: A Laboratory Manual.
Diddahally R. Govindaraju

Animalcules: The Activities, Impacts, and Investigators of Microbes.
Howard Gest

Bacteriophage Ecology: Population Growth, Evolution, and Impact of Bacterial Viruses.
John J. Dennehy

Food-Borne Microbes: Shaping the Host Ecosystem.
Elliot Ryser

Helicobacter pylori: Molecular Genetics and Cellular Biology.
D. Scott Merrell

Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillosis.
Xiaorong Lin

Genetic Glass Ceilings: Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity.
Elena R. Alvarez-Buylla

The Handbook of Plant Functional Genomics: Concepts and Protocols. Molecular Plant Biology Handbook Series.
Joshua Banta

Plant Taxonomy: The Systematic Evaluation of Comparative Data.
R. Geeta

Biology and Breeding of Crucifers.
Klaus Mummenhoff

Ainsworth and Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi.
David J. McLaughlin

Mycotoxins: Detection Methods, Management, Public Health and Agricultural Trade. Based on a conference held in Accra, Ghana, 13–16 September 2005.
Heather E. Hallen-Adams

The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies.
Tom Wenseleers

The Lives of Ants.
Jürgen Gadau

The Private Life of Spiders.
Paul A. Selden

Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics. Crustacean Issues, Volume 18.
Michel E. Hendrickx

New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.
D. Timothy J. Littlewood

Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea.
Peter Wainwright

Pacific Salmon Environmental and Life History Models: Advancing Science for Sustainable Salmon in the Future. Proceedings of a symposium held in Anchorage, Alaska, 13–14 September 2005. American Fisheries Society Symposium, Volume 71.
Thomas P. Quinn

Eels at the Edge: Science, Status, and Conservation Concerns. Based on a symposium held in Québec City, Canada, 11–13 August 2003. American Fisheries Society Symposium, Volume 58.
John E. McCosker

Fish Larval Physiology.
Eric Schultz

Fish Diseases. Volumes 1 and 2.
Michael L. Kent

Reproduction of Amphibians. Biological Systems in Vertebrates.
David M. Sever

Owls of the World. Second Edition.
Mark B. Robbins

Maternal Effects in Mammals.
Raquel Monclús

How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories: Evolutionary Enigmas.
Chris Haufe

The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent: Why We See So Well.
Jason M. Kamilar

When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects.
James B. Rule

Writing Scientific Research Articles: Strategy and Steps.
Lara Ferry-Graham

Analysing Cycles in Biology and Medicine: A Practical Introduction to Circular Variables and Periodic Regression. Second Edition.
F. James Rohlf

Directory of Publishers for Books Reviewed in This Issue

Index to Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed

Index to Reviewers of Books


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