Nature Strange and Beautiful: How Living Beings Evolved and Made the Earth a Home

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Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr. Christian Ziegler

Nature Strange and Beautiful

How Living Beings Evolved and Made the Earth a Home

Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr., Christian Ziegler

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English

Yale University
22 October 2019

Mathematics & Sciences; Evolution; Biodiversity

A beautifully written exploration of how cooperation shaped life on earth, from its single-celled beginnings to complex human societies

In this rich, wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert Leigh explores the results of billions of years of evolution at work. Leigh, who has spent five decades on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island reflecting on the organization of various amazingly diverse tropical ecosystems, now shows how selection on “selfish genes” gives rise to complex modes of cooperation and interdependence.

With the help of such artists as the celebrated nature photographer Christian Ziegler, natural history illustrator Deborah Miriam Kaspari, and Damond Kyllo, Leigh explains basic concepts of evolutionary biology, ranging from life’s single-celled beginnings to the complex societies humans have formed today. The book covers a range of topics, focusing on adaptation, competition, mutualism, heredity, natural selection, sexual selection, genetics, and language. Leigh’s reflections on evolution, competition, and cooperation show how the natural world becomes even more beautiful when viewed in the light of evolution.

By: Egbert Giles Leigh Jr., Christian Ziegler
Imprint: Yale University
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 595g
ISBN: 9780300244625
ISBN 10: 0300244622
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 22 October 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr., is a biologist for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and has resided on Barro Colorado Island in Panama as the staff scientist since 1972. Christian Ziegler is a celebrated nature photographer whose work focuses on ecologically oriented themes.

Reviews for Nature Strange and Beautiful: How Living Beings Evolved and Made the Earth a Home

A truly fine piece of work, one that should be on the reading list of all students and practitioners of evolutionary biology. -Geerat J. Vermeij, author of The Evolutionary World: How Adaptation Explains Everything from Shells to Civilization Nature Strange and Beautiful is an exceptionally comprehensive and clear portrait of the origin and functioning of ecological communities, founded on Egbert Leigh's career in tropical biology. The photographs by Christian Ziegler and other detailed drawings add to the book's richness and appeal. -Douglas Futuyma, Stony Brook University