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Our Ancient Lakes
A Natural History
ISBN: 9780262047852
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 17, 2023
The unexpected diversity, beauty, and strangeness of life in ancient lakes—some millions of years old—and the remarkable insights the lakes are yielding about the causes of biodiversity.
Imperfection
A Natural History
ISBN: 9780262047418
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 11, 2022
In praise of imperfection: how life on our planet is a catalog of imperfections, errors, alternatives, and anomalies.
Power of Position
Classification and the Biodiversity Sciences
ISBN: 9780262045278
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 24, 2022
How biodiversity classification, with its ranking of species, has social and political implications as well as implications for the field of information studies.
Agrobiodiversity
Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future
ISBN: 9780262038683
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 30, 2019
Experts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines that range from plant and biological sciences to economics and political science.
Convergent Evolution
Limited Forms Most Beautiful
ISBN: 9780262539098
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 4, 2011
An analysis of convergent evolution from molecules to ecosystems, demonstrating the limited number of evolutionary pathways available to life.
Our Ancient Lakes
A Natural History
ISBN: 9780262047852
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 17, 2023
The unexpected diversity, beauty, and strangeness of life in ancient lakes—some millions of years old—and the remarkable insights the lakes are yielding about the causes of biodiversity.
Imperfection
A Natural History
ISBN: 9780262047418
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 11, 2022
In praise of imperfection: how life on our planet is a catalog of imperfections, errors, alternatives, and anomalies.
Power of Position
Classification and the Biodiversity Sciences
ISBN: 9780262045278
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 24, 2022
How biodiversity classification, with its ranking of species, has social and political implications as well as implications for the field of information studies.
Agrobiodiversity
Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future
ISBN: 9780262038683
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 30, 2019
Experts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines that range from plant and biological sciences to economics and political science.
Convergent Evolution
Limited Forms Most Beautiful
ISBN: 9780262539098
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 4, 2011
An analysis of convergent evolution from molecules to ecosystems, demonstrating the limited number of evolutionary pathways available to life.