The Quarterly Review of Biology - 86 (1), 2011

Contents:

Announcements

The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund

Measurement and Meaning in Biology
David Houle, Christophe Pélabon, Günter P. Wagner, Thomas F. Hansen

The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness.
Larry Samuelson

Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity, and Policy.
Michael Ruse

Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk.
Richard A. Richards

Teaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930.
Elof Axel Carlson

Subjects of the World: Darwin's Rhetoric and the Study of Agency in Nature.
Frédéric Bouchard

Biotechnology: Our Future as Human Beings and Citizens.
James Giordano

The Origins of Life.
Jeffrey L. Bada

How to Find a Habitable Planet.
Carl B. Pilcher

Photoperiodism: The Biological Calendar.
Guy Bloch, Rachel Green

Community Ecology: Processes, Models, and Applications.
Kyle E. Harms

Bioinvasions and Globalization: Ecology, Economics, Management, and Policy.
Jonathan Bossenbroek

Soil Carbon Dynamics: An Integrated Methodology.
A. Stuart Grandy

Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua'i: A Scientist's Adventures in the Dark.
Gregory Pregill

Ocean: Reflections on a Century of Exploration.
Keith R. Benson

Lives of Conifers: A Comparative Account of the Coniferous Trees.
James E. Eckenwalder

Conifer Reproductive Biology.
James E. Eckenwalder

Tropical Rain Forest Ecology, Diversity, and Conservation.
Christopher W. Dick

Marine Ecosystems and Global Change.
Emmett Duffy

Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota.
John F. Valentine

Encyclopedia of Islands.
Ann K. Sakai

The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution.
Daniel W. McShea

The Emergence of Humans: An Exploration of the Evolutionary Timeline.
Ian Tattersall

99% Ape: How Evolution Adds Up.
Mark E. Borrello

Why Evolution Works (And Creationism Fails).
António M. de Frias Martins

Modeling Evolution: An Introduction to Numerical Methods.
Reinhard Bürger

Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution.
Bruce K. Kirchoff

Plant Systematics: An Integrated Approach.
Andrew L. Hipp

The Calculus of Selfishness.
Tom Wenseleers

Experimental Models in Serotonin Transporter Research.
Floyd E. Bloom

Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Birds.
Carlos Martínez del Rio

DNA: Promise and Peril.
Anthony J. Dellureficio

Regulation of Gene Expression by Small RNAs.
Muhammad Sohail

Nature's Chemicals: The Natural Products that Shaped Our World.
David A. Danehower

Biophysical Chemistry.
Markus A. Seeliger

Bioinformatics for Glycobiology and Glycomics: An Introduction.
Kamil Godula

The Alga Dunaliella: Biodiversity, Physiology, Genomics and Biotechnology.
Charles F. Delwiche

Elements of Evolutionary Genetics.
Michael J. Wade

Introduction to Conservation Genetics.
Alan R. Templeton

Metagenomics: Theory, Methods and Application.
Sarah M. Gray

Antiviral Research: Strategies in Antiviral Drug Discovery.
Erik De Clercq

Plant Biotechnology: The Genetic Manipulation of Plants.
Hani Al-Ahmad

Plant Physiology.
Thomas Silva

Cellular and Molecular Biology of Filamentous Fungi.
Jason E. Stajich

The Buzz about Bees: The Biology of a Superorganism.
Anna Dornhaus

Why Do Bees Buzz?: Fascinating Answers to Questions about Bees.
Jürgen Tautz

Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research.
Justin Walguarnery

Development of Non-Teleost Fishes.
Paula Mabee

Fishes of the Open Ocean: A Natural History and Illustrated Guide.
Diego Bernal

Biology, Management, and Conservation of Lampreys in North America.
Christopher S. Guy

Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles.
Vincent J. Lynch

Extreme Birds: The World's Most Extraordinary and Bizarre Birds.
Muir Eaton

Birds of Borneo: Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, and Kalimantan.
Peter Hosner

Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats.
Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds

The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals.
George A. Feldhamer

Mammals of North America.
George A. Feldhamer

The Red Colobus Monkeys: Variation in Demography, Behavior, and Ecology of Endangered Species.
Carola Borries

The Wildlife of Costa Rica: A Field Guide.
Maureen A. Donnelly

Statistics at the Bench: A Step-by-Step Handbook for Biologists.
F. James Rohlf

Recoverable and Recyclable Catalysts.
Katherine B. Aubrecht

Modern American Environmentalists: A Biographical Encyclopedia.
Mark Harvey

Directory of Publishers(p. 68)