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      Macroevolutionaries

      Dr. Bruce Lieberman, Niles Eldredge

      One of the twentieth century's great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague, mentor, and friend. In Macroevolutionaries…

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      The Miner’s Canary: Unraveling the Mysteries of Extinction

      Niles Eldredge

      How is our fate linked to the earth’s creatures, and the cycle of flourishing and extinction? Does human activity accelerate extinction? And what really causes it? This account of the…

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      Time Frames: The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria

      Niles Eldredge

      Scientists have recently begun to question one of the pillars of modern thought–Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Certainly evolution occurs; but if it is a slow, continuous process by which…

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      Time Frames: The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria

      Niles Eldredge

      Scientists have recently begun to question one of the pillars of modern thought–Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Certainly evolution occurs; but if it is a slow, continuous process by which…

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      Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis

      Niles Eldredge

      Argues that the Earth is confronting a disaster in the making - an ecological crisis that, if left unresolved, could lead to mass extinction on the scale of that which…

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      Dominion

      Niles Eldredge

      In this text, palaeontologist Niles Eldredge reviews the relation between biological and cultural evolution, showing how the agricultural revolution freed humans from dependence on local ecosystems and allowed us to…

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      Extinction and Evolution

      Niles Eldredge

      An illustrated account of the work and discoveries of Niles Etheridge, one of the world’s most renowned paleontologists whose research overturned Darwin’s theory of gradual evolution.

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      Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life

      Niles Eldredge

      Exploring the everyday artefacts of Darwin’s life, his notebooks and early manuscripts, this work provides a glimpse into the mind of this highly intuitive, creative scientist. It aims to reconstruct…

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      Why We Do it: Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene

      Niles Eldredge

      Directly assaulting the reductionist selfish gene theory, Niles Eldredge draws on Darwin’s ideas as well as modern economic theory to describe the cultural and societal interaction that exists between survival…

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      Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond

      Niles Eldredge

      From one of evolutionary biology’s major contributors, a compelling work that unravels science’s great Mystery of Mysteries : how new species arise.

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      Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond

      Niles Eldredge

      From one of evolutionary biology’s major contributors, a compelling work that unravels science’s great Mystery of Mysteries : how new species arise.

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      Systematics Ecology and the Biodiversity Crisis

      Which species can be saved, when all cannot? This book provides critical tools for finding answers to the systematic biology.

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      The Fossil Factory: A Kid’s Guide to Digging Up Dinosaurs, Exploring Evolution, and Finding Fossils

      Niles Eldredge,Douglas Eldredge,Gregory Eldredge

      A fun and fact-filled activity book about discovering and collecting fossils, the history of the Earth, and the record of life we find on its surface.

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      Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist: With a New Introduction by the Author

      Ernst Mayr

      This study offered a new approach to taxonomic principles and correlating the ideas and findings of modern systematics with those of other life science disciplines. Mayr offers his concept of…

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      Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal about the History of Life

      Niles Eldredge

      Updated illustrated study of the work of paleontologist Niles Eldredge whose groundbreaking discoveries show what fossils reveal about the history of life.

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      Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future

      Niles Eldredge,Sidney Horenstein

      If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world’s ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. This…

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      Interactions: The Biological Context of Social Systems

      Niles Eldredge,Marjorie Grene

      Argues against the reductionist tendencies in Darwinism known as genetic reductionism. The authors explore the biological underpinnings of social systems from invertebrates to mammals, particularly humans.

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      Unfinished Synthesis: Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought

      Niles Eldredge (American Museum of Natural History, New York)

      Written by an eminent evolutionary biologist (the co-founder of the theory of punctuated equilibria), this stimulating critique of modern evolutionary thought introduces an insightful theory concerning the ecological and genealogical…

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      Evolutionary Theory: A Hierarchical Perspective

      The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are…

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