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Ecology, evolution and population biology : readings from Scientific American
- Title
- Ecology, evolution and population biology : readings from Scientific American / with introductions by Edward O. Wilson.
- Author
- Wilson, Edward O.
- Publication
- San Francisco : W.H. Freeman, [1974]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | QH541.145 .W54q | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 319 pages : illustrations; 30 cm
- Uniform Title
- Scientific American.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Collected Work
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [311]-315.
- Contents
- Genetic load / Wills -- Sickle cells and evolution / Allison -- 'Genetic drift' in an Italian population / Cavalli-Sforza -- The structure and history of an ancient protein / Dickerson -- The social order of turkeys / Watts and Stokes -- Darwin's finches / Lack -- The desert pupfish / Brown -- The geography of birds / Welty -- Continental drift and the fossil record / Hallam -- Continental drift and evolution / Kurten -- The probability of death / Deevey -- Population density and social pathology / Calhoun -- The aerial migration of insects / Johnson -- Population control in animals / Wynne-Edwards -- Butterflies and plants / Ehrlich and Raven -- Weed control by insect / Holloway -- Desert ground squirrels / Bartholomew and Hudson -- Ecological chemistry / Brower -- Cleaning symbiosis / Limbaugh -- The fungus gardens of insects / Batra and Batra -- Symbiosis and evolution / Margulis -- The biosphere / Hutchinson -- The energy cycle of the biosphere / Woodwell -- The human crop / Deevey -- The carbon cycle / Bolin -- The nitrogen cycle / Delwiche -- The nature of oceanic life / Isaacs -- Trace-element deserts / Anderson and Underwood -- The nutrient cycles of an ecosystem / Bormann and Likens -- Toxic substances and ecological cycles / Woodwell -- Bogs / Deevey -- The life of a sand dune / Amos -- The ecology of fire / Cooper -- Life on human skin / Marples.
- ISBN
- 0716708884
- 9780716708889
- 0716708876
- 9780716708872
- LCCN
- 73017448
- OCLC
- ocm00730784
- 730784
- SCSB-14184093
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library