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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 8,682 ratings — published 1996
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 459,861 ratings — published 1997
Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 169 ratings — published 2009
Biogeography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 66 ratings — published 1983
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 122,399 ratings — published 1859
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 74,849 ratings — published 2004
The Theory of Island Biogeography (Princeton Landmarks in Biology)
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avg rating 4.50 — 116 ratings — published 1967
Foundations of Biogeography: Classic Papers with Commentaries (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 7 ratings — published 2004
The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 940 ratings — published 1994
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders: North America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 535 ratings — published 1980
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,866 ratings — published 1986
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 939 ratings — published 2001
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 79,727 ratings — published 2014
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 28,720 ratings — published 1991
Humankind: How Biology and Geography Shape Human Diversity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 109 ratings — published 2015
The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 324 ratings — published 2013
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 95,647 ratings — published 2005
The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint): With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published
Themes in Biogeography (Routledge Library Editions: Ecology)
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avg rating 1.00 — 1 rating — published
Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 2004
The geographical distribution of animals. With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the earth's surface.: Vol. 2 (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 1962
The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 183 ratings — published 2009
Fossils: An Essential Guide (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Zoogeography: The Geographical Distribution of Animals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,492,851 ratings — published 2022
An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 55 ratings — published 2023
What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution (Audible Audio)
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avg rating 4.34 — 242 ratings — published
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 11,514 ratings — published 2023
Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 129 ratings — published 2009
The Terraformers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.33 — 7,408 ratings — published 2023
Forgotten Grasslands of the South: Natural History and Conservation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.64 — 73 ratings — published 2012
Vegetation history (Handbook of Vegetation Science, 7)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1988
Enchanted by Daphne: The Life of an Evolutionary Naturalist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published
Letters to a Young Scientist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 4,709 ratings — published 2013
Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 379 ratings — published 2011
The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.71 — 7 ratings — published 2009
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 5,016 ratings — published 1976
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 122 ratings — published 2022
Oceanography: An Invitation to Marine Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 152 ratings — published 1996
Plants of Alberta: Trees, Shrubs, Wildflowers, Ferns, Aquatic Plants & Grasses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.73 — 11 ratings — published 2007
Nature Alberta (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published 1991
Fish of Alberta (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2003
Mammals of Alberta (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 13 ratings — published 2003
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians: North America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 334 ratings — published 1979
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Western Region (Audubon Society Field Guide Series)
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avg rating 4.25 — 380 ratings — published 1977
Mammals of North America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 1947
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 11,748 ratings — published 2005
“One final note on the biogeographic divisions of the world. The very feature that stunned Buffon and his contemporaries, and eventually led to the revolutionary insights that would define the field of biogeography—the evolutionary distinctiveness of different regions—is now waning in the face of the geographic and ecological advance of one species: our own. Few taxa and regions across the globe have escaped the biotic homogenization caused by humanity. Regional biotas are becoming increasingly similar as a result of two pervasive, anthropogenic activities—extinctions of endemic species and species introductions. In fact, these two homogenizing effects of humanity are interrelated, with species introductions being one of the major causes of extinctions of endemic species.
Recall Gertrude Stein’s lament over the loss in distinctiveness of place—that “there is no there, there.” Tragically, this is becoming the sobering reality for the increasingly homogenized biosphere. While we may not be suffering from the muted, “ Silent Spring ” that Rachel Carson warned us about in 1962, the monotonous cacophony of coquís (frogs native to Puerto Rico) and cicada in exotic lands as isolated as Hawaii now drown out the euphonious, more subtle calls of honeycreepers and other birds native to the islands.”
― Biogeography: A Very Short Introduction
Recall Gertrude Stein’s lament over the loss in distinctiveness of place—that “there is no there, there.” Tragically, this is becoming the sobering reality for the increasingly homogenized biosphere. While we may not be suffering from the muted, “ Silent Spring ” that Rachel Carson warned us about in 1962, the monotonous cacophony of coquís (frogs native to Puerto Rico) and cicada in exotic lands as isolated as Hawaii now drown out the euphonious, more subtle calls of honeycreepers and other birds native to the islands.”
― Biogeography: A Very Short Introduction
“There’s a voice that says: "So what?"
It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the arenas of public opinion, querulous and smug and fortified by just a little knowledge, which as always is a dangerous thing. "So what if a bunch of species go extinct?" It says. "Extinction is a natural process. Darwin himself said so, didn’t he? Extinction is the complement of evolution, making room for new species to evolve. There have always been extinctions. So why worry about these extinctions currently being caused by humanity?" And there has always been a pilot light burning in your furnace. So why worry when your house is on fire?”
― The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the arenas of public opinion, querulous and smug and fortified by just a little knowledge, which as always is a dangerous thing. "So what if a bunch of species go extinct?" It says. "Extinction is a natural process. Darwin himself said so, didn’t he? Extinction is the complement of evolution, making room for new species to evolve. There have always been extinctions. So why worry about these extinctions currently being caused by humanity?" And there has always been a pilot light burning in your furnace. So why worry when your house is on fire?”
― The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
