REVIEW ESSAY

The Ethics and Politics of Human Experimentation by Paul M. McNeill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993     

Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic

Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in. Forest-Savanna Mosaic. J. Fairhead and M. Leach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 354 pp.     

Biology and meaning: a reappraisal of semantic biology—a review of The organic codes: an introduction to semantic biology, by Marcello Barbieri

The Organic Codes: An Introduction to Semantic Biology. Barbieri, M. 2002. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 316 pp. Hardback $75.00. ISBN 0-521-82414-1. Paperback $25.00. ISBN 0-521-53100-4.     

Ancient Oaxaca

Ancient Oaxaca. Richard E. Blanton. Gary M. Feinman. Stephen A. Kowalewski. and Linda M. Nicholas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 153 pp.     

Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophy.

Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophy. Michele M. Moody-Adams. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 260 pp.     

Hormones, Health, and Behavior: A Socio-Ecological and Lifespan Perspective

Hormones, Health, and Behavior:. Socio-Ecological and Lifespan Perspective. C. Panter-Brick and C. M. Worthman. eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 290 pp.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Plant Quarantine Problem. By W. A. M c C ubbin .
The Natural Regulation of Animal Numbers. By D avid Lack
Animal Cytology and Evolution. By M. J. D. W hite
The Physiology of Insect Metamorphosis (Cambridge Monographs on Experimental Biology, no. 1). By V. B. W igglesworth .
The Genetics of Paramecium aurelia (Cambridge Monographs in Experimental Biology, no. 2). By G. H. B eale .
Microbes and Us. By H ugh N icol .
Weed Control in Farm and Garden. By S. J. W illis .     

Issue Information

Front Cover: The bright warning patterns of the sister species H. himera (top) and H. erato (bottom) are also used as mating cues. Original images by Riccardo Papa. Photo reproduced by permission of Richard M. Merrill, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.     

Calling all paleophiles

A review of Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Vol. 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates and Ungulatelike Mammals, edited by Christine M. Janis, Kathleen M. Scott and Louis L. Jacobs. London, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 691 pp. $260.00, hardbound.     

The Cultural Analysis of Kinship: The Legacy of David M. Schneider.; Filiation and Affiliation.

The Cultural Analysis of Kinship: The Legacy of David M. Schneider. Richard Feinberg and Martin Ottenheimer. eds. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 235 pp.
Filiation and Affiliation. Harold W. Scheffler. Cambridge: Westview Press, 2001. 202 pp.     

Book review

Human Growth in the Past: Studies From Bones and Teeth. Edited by Robert D. Hoppa and Charles M. FitzGerald. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 1999. 315 pp. ISBN 0‐521‐63153‐X. $74.95 (cloth)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Plant Stems. Physiology and Functional Morphology, ed Gartner, Barbara L. Academic Press, UK.
Terrestrial orchids from seed to mycotrophic plant, by Rasmussen, Hanne. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
The Electronic Comparative Plant Ecology, by J. J. Hodgson, J. P. Grime, R. Hunt and K. Thompson. Chapman and Hall
A Monograph of Didymosphaeria, by Andre Aptroot.
The Manuleae. A Tribe of Scrophulariaceae, by Olive M. Hilliard.     

Mind and Social Practice: Selected Writings of Sylvia Scribner

Mind and Social Practice: Selected Writings of Sylvia Scribner. Ethel Tobach, Rachel Joffe Falmagne, Mary Brown Parlee, Laura M. W. Martin, and Aggie Scribner Kapelman, eds. New York Cambridge University Press, 1997. 425 pp.     

An Approach to Ecology Teaching at University Level

The Virus. A History of the Concept S. S. HUGHES 140 pp., illustrated. London: Heinemann Educational (New York: Science History Publications), 1977. £3.90. Reviewed by H. V. WYATT

Ecology and Archaeology Studies to Biology, No. 77 G. W. DIMBLEBY 55 pp., illustrated. London: Edward Arnold, 1977. £3.00 boards, £1.50 paper. Reviewed by CHARLES BRADY

Colonization of Industrial Wasteland Studies in Biology, No. 80 R. P. GEMMELL 75 pp., illustrated. London: Edward Arnold, 1977. £3.20 boards, £1.60. paper. Reviewed by JOHN M. AYERST

Energy and the Living Cell. An Introduction to Bioenergetics W. M. BECKER 346 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott (Oxford: Blackwell Scientific), 1977. £6.40. Reviewed by J. PREBBLE

Microbial and Molecular Genetics Second edition J. R. FINCHAM 150 pp. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. £3.95 boards, £2.25 paper. Reviewed by J. H. CROFT

Genetics M. W. ROBERTS 90 pp., illustrated. Plymouth: Macdonald and Evans, 1977. £1.25. Reviewed by CECILY A. GALE

The Differentiation of Cells N. MACLEAN 216 pp., illustrated. London: Edward Arnold, 1977. £12.00 boards, £5.95 paper. Reviewed by K. R. TYLER

Mechanics of the Mind C. BLAKEMORE 208 pp., illustrated. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. £10.50 boards, £3.95 paper.Reviewed by O. LOWENSTEIN

The Pursuit of Nature. Informal Essays on the History of Physiology A. L. HODGKIN, A. F. HUXLEY, et al. 180 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. £7.50. Reviewed by DIANA E. MANUEL

Signs of Life I. RIDPATH 190 pp., illustrated. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1977. £1.25. Reviewed by O. LOWENSTEIN     

A broader view of conservation

A review of Conservation in a Changing World, edited by Georgina M. Mace, Andrew Balmford, and Joshua R. Ginsburg. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 308 pp. $80.00 hard bound; $34.95 paperback.     

From Hindu Kush to Sri Lanka and the State of the Art

The Hill of Flutes: Life, Love and Poetry in Tribal India. W. G. Archer . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974.
Structural Approaches to South India Studies. Harry M. Buck and Glenn E. Yocum , eds. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: Wilson Books, 1974.
Faction and Conversion in a Plural Society: Religious Alignments in the Hindu Kush. Robert Leroy Canfield . Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan No. 50. 1973.
Elite Politics in Rural India: Political Stratification and Alliances in Western Maharashtra. Anthony Carter . Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 9. London: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
The Myth of the Lokamanya: Tilak and Mass Politics in Maharashtra. Richard I. Cashman . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.     

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 1.; The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 2.

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 1. Richard E. W. Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 571 pp.
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 2. Richard E. W. Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 455 pp.     

Exploring in the stream of behavior

Review of Observing Interaction: An Introduction to Sequential Analysis, 2nd Edition, by Roger Bakeman and John M. Gottman. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997, xiii + 207 p., 32 fig., 19 tab., $24.95 (soft), $54.95 (hard).     

Reviews of publications

The Diatoms–Biology and Morpology of the Genera, by F. E. Round, R. M. Crawford and D. G. Mann.
The Control of Eutrophication of Lakes and Reservoirs, edited by S.-O. Ryding and W. Rast.
An Amazonian Rain Forest, edited by C. F. Jordan. Vol. 2 in Man and the Biosphere Series. Carnforth, Lanes., U.K.
Exploiting the Tropical Rain Forest, edited by D. Lamb, Vol. 3 in Man and the Biosphere Series. Carnforth, Lanes
Biological Control of Microbial Plant Pathogens, by R. Campbell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Aquatic Plant Book, by C. D. K. Cook. The Hague, The Netherlands: SPB Academic Publishing     

Bestimmung von Chloratrückstanden im Boden

Abstract

Kozubov, G. M.; Danilova, M. F.: Atlas ultrastruktury rastitel nych kletok 295 S., 142 Tafeln. Petrozavodsk: 1972. Reviewed H. M. Müller.

Fritzsch, W.; Bremer, R.: Bienengesundheitsdienst, 1. Aufl. 200 S., 62 Abb. Jena: VEB Gustav Fischer, 1975. Reviewed W. Lehmann.

Schumakow, I. M.; Fedorintschik, N. S.; Gussew, G. W.: Biologische Pflanzenschutzimittel. 205 S., 13 Abb., Berlin, VEB Dt. Landwirtschaftsverl., 1976. Reviewed Th. Wetzel

Grimstone, A. V.; Skaer, R. J.: A guidebook to microscopical methods 134 S., 3 Abb. London: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1972. Reviewed H. M. Müller.