The Ghosts Of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms
10 best books like The Ghosts Of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms (Connie Barlow): The Private Life of Plants: A Natural History of Plant Behaviour, Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America, Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth, To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession, The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology, Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song, Poseidon's Steed The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality, The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live, A Peterson Field Guide to Insects: America North of Mexico, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
The Private Life of Plants: A Natural History of Plant Behaviour
| Author | David Attenborough |
| ISBN | 0691006393 |
Based on the immensely popular six-part BBC program that will air in the United States during the fall of 1995, this book offers what writer/filmmaker David Attenborough is best known for delivering: an intimate view of the natural world wherein a multitude of miniature dramas unfold. In the program...
| Author | Paul S. Martin |
| ISBN | 0520231414 |
As recently as 11,000 years ago—"near time" to geologists—mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals...
| Author | Andrew H. Knoll |
| ISBN | 0691120293 |
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores...
| Author | Dan Koeppel |
| ISBN | 1594630011 |
From a well-known outdoors and nature writer comes a narrative that explores a lifelong obsession with competitive birding.
What drives a man to travel to sixty countries and spend a fortune to count birds? And what if that man is your father?
Richard Koeppel's obsession began at the age of...
| Author | Tim Birkhead |
| ISBN | 1596915412 |
For thousands of years people have been fascinated by birds, and today that fascination is still growing. In 2007 bird-watching is one of the most popular pastimes, not just in America, but throughout the world, and the range of interest runs from the specialist to the beginner.
In The Wisdom...
Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song
| Author | David Rothenberg |
| ISBN | 0465071368 |
The astonishing richness of birdsong is both an aesthetic and a scientific mystery. Evolutionists have never been able to completely explain why birdsong is so inventive and why many species devote so many hours to singing. The standard explanations of defending territories and attracting mates...
A fascinating journey with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years
Poseidon's Steed trails the seahorse through secluded waters across the globe in a kaleidoscopic history that mirrors man?s centuries-old fascination with the animal, sweeping from...
| Author | Colin Tudge |
| ISBN | 0307342042 |
This is a book that took me longer to read than any other book of 2016. And I stuck to the read diligently. But I think it is only going to be appreciated by those with scientific classification onus and supreme interest and patient love of BIRDS. There are many species and this is no short cut to their placements,...
| Author | Donald J. Borror |
| ISBN | 0395911702 |
Find what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides—their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time. Detailed descriptions of insect orders, families, and many individual species are illustrated...
| Author | Alan Burdick |
| ISBN | 0374219737 |
A stunning work of narrative nonfiction that asks: what is natural?
Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes from Australia hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing...
| Author | Errol Fuller |
| ISBN | 0691161372 |
A photograph of an extinct animal evokes a greater feeling of loss than any painting ever could. Often black and white or tinted sepia, these remarkable images have been taken mainly in zoos or wildlife parks, and in some cases depict the last known individual of the species. Lost Animals is a unique photographic...
Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger
| Author | Margaret Mittelbach |
| ISBN | 0812967690 |
Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson, along with renowned artist Alexis Rockman, take off on a postmodern safari. Their mission? Tracking down the elusive Tasmanian tiger. Tragically, this mysterious, striped predator was hunted...
| Author | Gordon Grice |
| ISBN | 0385318901 |
Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning...
| Author | Carol Kaesuk Yoon |
| ISBN | 0393061973 |
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Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus set out to order and name the entire living world and ended up founding a science: the field of scientific classification, or taxonomy. Yet, in spite of Linnaeus’s pioneering...
| Author | Nancy Ross Hugo |
| ISBN | 1604692197 |
Have you ever looked at a tree? That may sound like a silly question, but there is so much more to notice about a tree than first meets the eye. Seeing Trees celebrates seldom seen but easily observable tree traits and invites you to watch trees with the same care and sensitivity that birdwatchers watch...
Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins
| Author | Maddalena Bearzi |
| ISBN | 0674027817 |
Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B. Stanford, a dolphin...
An award-winning biologist takes us on the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet.
Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species’...
| Author | Alston Chase |
| ISBN | 0156720361 |
This book makes me not want to work for the Parks Service (a real possibility) and yet I very much wonder how much bias is there. The author's tone is relentlessly resentful of what he sees as an overblown bureaucracy. While some of the decisions the NPS made in Yellowstone are truly horrific, i.e. the actual...
| Author | John C. Kricher |
| ISBN | 0691009740 |
A Neotropical Companion is an extraordinarily readable introduction to the American tropics, the lands of Central and South America, their remarkable rainforests and other ecosystems, and the creatures that live there. It is the most comprehensive one-volume guide to the Neotropics available...
| Author | Richard Manning |
| ISBN | 0140233881 |
More than forty percent of our country was once open prairie, grassland that extended from Missouri to Montana. Taking a critical look at this little-understood biome, award-winning journalist Richard Manning urges the reclamation of this land, showing how the grass is not only our last connection...
Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World
| Author | Ann Moyal |
| ISBN | 0801880521 |
When the first platypus specimen reached England from Australia in 1799, the scientific community claimed that it was a hoax. On closer investigation, dubious European naturalists eventually declared it to be real, though in an age obsessed with classification, the category-defying platypus...
| Author | Paul Schneider |
| ISBN | 0805059903 |
His book is a romance, a story of first love between Americans and a thing they call "wilderness." For it was in the Adirondacks that masses of non-Native Americans first learned to cherish the wilderness as a place of recreation and solace.
In this lyrical narrative history, the author reveals...
