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	Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution 4.06 avg rating — 1,098 ratings — published 2018 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves 4.11 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 2014 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frogs, Flies, and Dandelions: Speciation--The Evolution of New Species 4.04 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Loom of Life: Unravelling Ecosystems 3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wie wat bewaart: Twee eeuwen Nederlandse natuurhistorie by Menno Schilthuizen (Goodreads Author), Freek Vonk it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darwins engelen. Vrouwelijke geleerden in de tijd van Charles Darwin by Norbert Peeters (Editor), Tessa van Dijk (Editor), Jelle Reumer (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Menno rated a book liked it The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2) by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The first one-third of the book had the same quality of writing as The Handmaid's Tale, but at some point, especially where the novel changes into an action-packed story, the level of writing drops considerably. You get the impression that the author ...more
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Menno and 1 other person liked Jake's review of Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution: "Classified as outside of my comfort zone. Recommended for people who like science but haven't invested much time in it. So we (humans) have changed the environment pretty drastically. Our cities are pretty much alien environments. This book doesn't s" Read more of this review »
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“These constantly arriving foreign inhabitants form the first of at least four explanations for the high biodiversity urban naturalists are encountering in their cities. A second explanation is the fact that the places where people like to build their settlements, which then grow into cities, are often biologically rich areas to begin with.”
― Menno Schilthuizen, Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

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“A third source of urban biological richness is, in fact, the loss of good-quality habitat immediately outside the city perimeter.”
― Menno Schilthuizen, Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

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“The fourth and final explanation for the rich biodiversity of cities is the sheer diversity of habitat patches.”
― Menno Schilthuizen, Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

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The Overstory by Richard Powers (Pulitzer winner)

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Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution by Anurag Agrawal (biology)

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Wild America: The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague by Roger Tory Peterson (nature travel)

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (environmental essay)

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Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves by Menno Schilthuizen (reproductive biology)

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