New Books

Book reviewed in this article: Hauser , M. D. 1996: The evolution of communication. Runciman , W. G., Maynard Smith , J. & Dunbar , R. I. M. (eds) 1996: Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man. Snowdon , C. T. & Hausberger , M. (eds) 1997: Social Influences on Vocal Development. Wyrwicka , W. 1996: Imitation in Human and Animal Behaviour. Waal , F. de & Lanting , F. 1997: Bonobo: The forgotten ape. Witte , G. R. 1997: Der Maulwurf, Talpa europaea. Neuc Brehm-Bücherei Nr. 637.     

New Books

Book reviewed in this article: Clemmons , J. R. & Buchholz , R.1997: Behavioral Approaches to Conservation in the Wild. Reagan , D. P. & Waide , R. B. (eds) 1996: The Food Web of a Tropical Rain Forest. Städler , E., Rowell-Rahier , M. & Baur, R . (eds.) 1996: Insect-Plant-Relationships. Reprinted from Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 80 (1) 1996, with additional indices, as Series Entomologica, Vol. 53 . Seeley , T. D. 1997: Honigbienen. Im Mikrokosmos des Bienenstocks. (The Wisdom of the Hive, Harvard UP 1995, übersetzt von Ute Döring). Rowe , N. 1996: The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates. Kuper , A. 1994: The Chosen Primate. Human Nature and Cultural Diversity. Goodwin , B. 1994: Der Leopard, der seine Flecken verliert. Evolution und Komplexität. (How the leopard changed its spots, 1994, aus dem Engl. übers.)     

Making the grade in human evolution

Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution By WW Howells (1997). Washington: Compass Press. 266 pp. $19.95 (cloth) ISBN 0-929590-16-3. $36.95 (paper) ISBN 0-929590-17-1. From Lucy to Language By DC Johanson and B Edgar. Principal Photography by David Brill (1996). New York: Simon and Schuster, 272 pp. $50.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-684-81023-9. Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis By GC Conroy (1997). New York: WW. Norton.xii + 557 pp. $43.13 (paper) ISBN 0-393-97042-6. Humans Before Humanity By R Foley (1997) Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.vii + 248 pp. $21.95 paper ISBN 0-631-20528-4. Contemporary Issues in Human Evolution By E Meickle, FC Howell and N Jablonski (1996) Wattis Symposium Series in Anthropology. Nina G. Jablonski, Series Editor. California Academy of Sciences Memoir 21. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences.viii+193pp $35.00 cloth ISBN 0-940228-45-9. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article:
Ax, P.: Multicellular Animals. A new Approach to the Phylogenetic Order in Nature .
R idley , M.: Evolution 2^nd ed.
R idley , M: Evolution. CD-ROM .
X ianguang , H. & B ergström , J. 1997. Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, south-west China .
P h . G randcolas (ed.) 1997: The origin of biodiversity in insects: phylogenetic tests of evolutionary scenarios .
S teinmann , H., 1997. World catalogue of Odonata. Vol. 1: Zygoptera, Vol. 2: Anisoptera .
J esses , S. 1997. Trace fossils from the Lower Cambrian Mickwitzia sandstone, south central Sweden .     

Ichthyological enthusiasm

Coral Reef Fishes: Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean including the Red Sea by E. Lieske and R. Myers Princeton University Press, 1996. $35.00 hbk (400 pages) ISBN 0 691 02659 9 Air-Breathing Fishes: Evolution, Diversity, and Adaptation by J.B. Graham Academic Press, 1997. $79.95 hbk (xi+299 pages) ISBN 0 12 294860 2 The Diversity of Fishes by G.S. Helfman, B.B. Collette and D.E. Facey Blackwell, 1997. ￡55.00 hbk (xii+528 pages) ISBN 0 86542 256 7.     

Family values

Evolutionary Genetics (2nd edn) by J. Maynard Smith, Oxford University Press, 1998. £50.00 hbk, £19.95 pbk (368 pages) ISBN 0 19 850232 X/0 19 850231 1Selection in Natural Populations by J.B. Mitton, Oxford University Press, 1998. £50.00 hbk (252 pages) ISBN 0 19 506352 XProgress and Prospects in Evolutionary Biology edited by J.R. Powell, Oxford University Press, 1997. £49.50 hbk (576 pages) ISBN 0 19 507691 5Evolution on Islands edited by P.R. Grant, Oxford University Press, 1997. £24.99 pbk (348 pages) ISBN 0 19 850 1714     

Evolution of Sickness and Healing

Evolution of Sickness and Healing. Horacio Fábrega Jr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 (cloth), xv. 364pp.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Biogeographical Evolution of the Malay Archipelago. –T. C. Whitmore.
Evolution as Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology. –D. R. Brooks and E. O. Wiley.     

The Ephemeral Civilization: Exploding the Myth of Social Evolution

The Ephemeral Civilization: Exploding the Myth of Social Evolution. Graeme Donald Snooks. London: Routledge, 1997. 858 pp.     

The controversy continues

Function, Phylogeny and Fossils: Miocene Hominoid Evolution and Adaptations Begun, DG, Ward, CV, Rose, MD eds. (1997). New York: Plenum Press. xii + 424 pp. ISBN 0-306-45457-2. $120.00 (cloth). The Evolution of Western Eurasian Neogene Mammal Faunas Bernor, RL, Fahlbusch, V, Mittman, H (eds). (1996). New York: Columbia University Press. ix + 487 pp. ISBN 0-231-08246-0. $92.00 (cloth). © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

A new world compendium

Review of New World Primates: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, edited by Warren G. Kinzey. New York, Walter de Gruyter, Inc., 1997, xvii + 436 pp, cloth $6.95, paper $31.95.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Milkweed Butterflies: Their Cladistics and Biology. — P. R. Ackery and R. I. Vane-Wright. 1984.
Scala Millettiearum: A Survey of the Genera of the Tribe Millettieae (Legum.-Pap.) with Methodological Considerations. — R. Geesink. 1984.
Mechanisms of Morphological Evolution. — W. Arthur. 1984.     

The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917

The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917. Jon Gjerde. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 426 pp.     

Preface to a Discussion Meeting entitled Evolution of biological diversity: from population differentiation to speciation,held at the Royal Society on 9 and 10 July 1997

Preface to a Discussion Meeting entitled Evolution of biological diversity: from population differentiation to speciation, held at the Royal Society on 9 and 10 July 1997     

Review

Book reviews in this article:
Principles of systematic zoology. Second edition —E. Mayr and P. D. Ashlock.
Interpreting evolutionary patterns from molecular variation
Evolution at the molecular level R. K. Selander, A. G. Clark and T. S. Whittam (eds).
Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution —Wen-Hsiung Li and Dan Graur.     

Reviews

Bailey, W. J., & J. Ridsdill-Smith, eds. (1991): Reproductive behaviour of insects: Individuals and populations (Fortpflanzungsverhatten von Insekten: Individuen und Populationen). Hughes, R. N., (ed.) (1993): Diet selection: an interdisciplinary approach to foraging behaviour (Ergebnisse zur Theorie des optimalen Futtersuchverhaltens). Charnov, E. L. (1993): Life history invariants. Some explorations of symmetry in evolutionary ecology (Konstanten des Lebenszyklus. Krebs, J. R., & N. B. Davies (1993): An introduction to behavioural ecology (Eine Einführung in die Verhaltensökologie). Walossek, D. (1993): The upper Cambrian Rehbachiella and the phylogeny of Brachiopoda and Crustacea (Rehbachiella aus dem oberen Kambrium und die Stammesgeschichte der Brachiopoda und Crustacea) Fossils and Strata Scandinavian University Press, Toyen. McGrew, W. C. (1992): Chimpanzee material culture. Implications for human evolution (Materielle Kultur der Schimpansen und Folgerungen für die Evolution des Menschen). Kämpfe, L., Hrsg. (1992): Evolution und Stammesgeschichte der Organismen (Evolution and phylogenesis of organisms). Heiligenberg, W. (1991): Neural nets in electric fish (Neuronale Netzwerke bei elektrischen Fischen). Estes, R. D. (1993): The safari companion: a guide to watching African mammals (Der Safari-Begleiter: ein Feldführer zur Beobachtung afrikanischer Säugetiere).     

BUCHBESPRECHUNGEN

M ayr , E rnst ; A shlock , P eter D.: Principles of Systematic Zoology.
N orberg , U lla M.: Vertebrate. Flight. Mechanics, Physiology, Morphology, Ecology and Evolution.
B ischof , H.-J.: NeuroethoIogie - Einführung in die neurophysiologischen Grundla-gen des Verhaltens.
H illis , M. D.; M oritz , C. (eds.): Molecular Systematics.
G eiger , G.: Evolutionary Instability, Logical and Material Aspects of a Unified Theory of Biosocial Evolution.
S chmidt -K ittler , N.; W illmann , R. (eds.): Phylogeny and the Classification of Fossil and Recent Organisms.
P eters , G.;H utterer , R. (eds.): Vertebrates in the Tropics.
F utuyama , D ouglas J.: Evolutionsbiologie.     

Besprechungen / Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bücher/Books: Zuckerman, S. (1981): The social life of monkeys and apes. Second edition (Das Sozialleben von Affen und Menschenaffen, 2. Aufl.) Bücher/Books: Chivers, D. J., und K. Joysey (1978): Recent advances in primatology. Vol. 3: Evolution (Fortschritte der Primatenforschung. Band 3: Evolution). Bücher/Books: Bernstein, I. S., and E. O. Smith, eds. (1980): Primate ecology and human origins (Ökologie der Primaten und Herkunft des Menschen). Bücher/Books: Kull, U. (1979): Evolution des Menschen. Biologische, soziale und kulturelle Evolution (Biological, social and cultural evolution of man). Bücher/Books: Zankl, H. (1980): Humanbiologie (Human biology). UTB 922. Bücher/Books: Passingham, R. (1982): The human primate (Der menschliche Primat). Bücher/Books: Crook, J. H. (1981): The evolution of human consciousness (Die Entwicklung des menschlichen Bewußtseins). Bücher/Books: Adám, G. (1980): Perception, Consciousness, Memory—Reflections of a Biologist (Wahrnehmung, Bewußtsein, Gedächtnis—Betrachtungen eines Biologen). Bücher/Books: Gursch, R. (1981): Die Illustrationen Ernst Haeckels zur Abstammungs- und Entwicklungsgeschichte. Diskussion im wissenschaftlichen und nichtwissenschaftlichen Schrifttum (An evaluation of scientific and general discussions concerning Haeckel's illustrations to phylogenetics and embryology).     

Besprechungen/Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Zeitschriften/Periodicals: Fluharty , S. L., D. H. Taylor und G. W. Barrett (1976): Sun compass orientation in the meadow vole, Microtus pennsylvanicus (Sonnenkompaß-Orientierung bei der Wühlmaus M. p.) Zeitschriften/Periodicals: Haigh , G. R. (1979): Sun compass orientation in the thirteen-lined ground squirrel, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus (Sonnenkompaßorientierung beim Streifenhörnchen Sp. t.) Zeitschriften/Periodicals: Brockmann , H. J., A. Grafen und R. Dawkins (1979): Evolutionarily stable nesting strategy in a digger wasp (Eine evolutionsstabile Strategic des Nistens bei Grabwespen) Zeitschriften/Periodicals: Folsome , C. E. (1979): Life—Origin and Evolution (Leben—Ursprung und Stammesentwicklung) Zeitschriften/Periodicals: Scientific American (1979): Evolution. W. H. Freeman Zeitschriften/Periodicals: Hassell , M. P. (1978): The Dynamics of Arthropod Predator-Prey Systems (Dynamik der Räuber-Beute-Beziehungen von Arthropoden) Zeitschriften/Periodicals: Christiansen , F. B., and T. M. Fenchel, eds. (1977): Measuring Selection in Natural Populations (Selektionsmessungen an freilebenden Populationen) Zeitschriften/Periodicals: Batt , R. A. L. (1980): Influences on Animal Growth and Development (Einflüsse auf Wachstum und Entwicklung von Tieren) Zeitschriften/Periodicals: Hahn , M. E., C. Jensen , B. C. Dudek, eds. (1979): Development and Evolution of Brain Size (Individuelle und stammesgeschichtliche Entwicklung der Gehirngröße) Zeitschriften/Periodicals: Burghardt , G. M., und M. Bekoff, eds. (1978): The Development of Behavior: Comparative and Evolutionary Aspects (Die Entwicklung des Verhaltens: Vergleichende und evolutionsbiologische Aspekte) Zeitschriften/Periodicals: Mayr , E. (1979): Evolution und die Vielfalt des Lebens (Evolution and the diversity of life) Zeitschriften/Periodicals: Curry-Lindahl , K. (1975): Fiskarna i färg (Fische in Farben) Zeitschriften/Periodicals: Arnold , E. N., und J. A. Burton (1979): Pareys Reptilien- und Amphibienführer Europas (A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain and Europe)