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- An exciting look at the scientific merit and societal benefits of sociobiology

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What constitutes an adaptation, how do complex adaptations come into being, and where do species with their special attributes come from? Alcock explores these questions, explaining why some biologists think they know what adaptations are and how they arise and what species are. Orchids have especially intricate relationships with their pollinators, which raises questions about the nature of adaptations of this sort. Orchids also comprise the ...

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Excerpt from Mons Perfectionis: Otherwyse Called in Englyssh, the Hylle of PerfectyonTa teth/ enomemattkytt be poem with a t'eeam'e tan bane no plate (13 the eethmet of hte habnoatt te gtaee ttltefttgott a man tawng oue natate came tn to this thozlbe a m his teltgrom a tallpb hte annules unto hm a mane them his bgethten of his talent: gyupttge to them thete tales a tfi ¿ttu'tfiona as hte peettta let: bzeneen alouete/ fptz' em as a.About the Pu...

Excerpt from Mons Perfectionis: Otherwyse Called in Englyssh, the Hylle of PerfectyonTa teth/ enomemattkytt be poem with a t'eeam'e tan bane no plate (13 the eethmet of hte habnoatt te gtaee ttltefttgott a man tawng oue natate came tn to this thozlbe a m his teltgrom a tallpb hte annules unto hm a mane them his bgethten of his talent: gyupttge to them thete tales a tfi ¿ttu'tfiona as hte peettta let: bzeneen alouete/ fptz' em as a.About the Pu...

In The Triumph of Sociobiology, John Alcock reviews the controversy that has surrounded evolutionary studies of human social behavior following the 1975 publication of E.O. Wilson's classic, Sociobiology, The New Synthesis. Denounced vehemently as an "ideology" that has justified social evilsand inequalities, sociobiology has survived the assault. Twenty-five years after the field was named by Wilson, the approach he championed has successfull...

The unparalleled network of roads in the empire of ancient Rome was a remarkable achievement--yet this Roman road network is just the most notable example of an important feature of many pre-modern societies worldwide. Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World presents a comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of overland transport and communication networks across pre-modern cultures. Featuring contributions fro...

More than twenty-five years ago, John Cherry looked forward to the day when archaeological survey projects working around the Mediterranean region (the 'Frogs round the pond') would begin to compare and synthesize the information they had collected.

Naturalist John Alcock details the aftermath of a devastating wildfire in the lower reaches of Arizona's Mazatzal Mountains. Documenting for a decade the chaparral landscape left in the wake of the Willow fire, Alcock thrills at the renewal of the region as he hikes in and photographs plants and animals in a once-blackened wildland now teeming with resurgent life.

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Discusses the potential benefits of working in a comparative format, with evidence from many different Mediterranean survey projects, and considers the practical problems that present roadblocks to achieving that objective.

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This thoroughly documented genealogy covers most of the first five generations of descendants of Burr Harrison through his sons Thomas and Burr Jr., his proven daughter Sybil who married Thomas Whitledge, and two unproven daughters who married Thomas Bart

What could seem less inviting than summer in the desert? For most people, this prospect conjures up the image of relentless heat and parched earth, for biologist John Alcock, summer in Arizona's Sonoran Desert represents an opportunity to investigate the wide variety of life that flourishes in one of the most extreme environments in North America. "Only very special plants and animals can survive and reproduce in a place that may receive as li...

Spring on the Sonoran Desert can be a four-month-long spectacle of life and color. Within these well-written pages, Alcock exposes us to the plant and animal life of a land many regard as desolate. To Alcock, the desert has a constant evolutionary beauty he never seems to tire of. Alcock's approach to his subject is an elegant combination of science and literature. Only the desert itself, arrayed in its April apparel, can rival the beauty of t...