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Book of the Week: Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful

Continuing our selection of the very best titles available through NHBS: Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful George McGhee Jr What? New volume in the MIT Press Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology. Why? Following the ethos of this series which looks in detail at the theoretical models behind the practical application of the biological sciences, this [...]

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Book of the Week: Bats: From Evolution to Conservation, 2nd Ed.

Continuing our selection of the very best titles available through NHBS: Bats: From Evolution to Conservation by John D. Altringham What? 2nd edition of John Altringham’s 1996 OUP publication, Bats: Biology and Behaviour Why? This rigorous and authoritative textbook is updated to reflect the current state of research on all aspects of bat biology, ecology [...]

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Book of the Week: Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy

Continuing our selection of the very best titles available through NHBS: Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy: A How to Manual, 4th Ed. by Barry G. Hall What? Well-established reference book for getting started in creating phylogenetic trees from protein or nucleic acid sequence data. Why? Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy is the full package for biologists who [...]

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Diversity of Fishes – and other New Marine Biology Titles

The second edition of the classic textbook The Diversity of Fishes has just been published and is now in stock at NHBS. This new edition represents a major revision of the world’s most widely adopted ichthyology textbook. Expanded and updated, the second edition of The Diversity of Fishes is illustrated throughout with striking color photographs [...]

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