The Darwinian tourist
Subtitle: viewing the world through evolutionary eyes
By: Christopher Wills ; with photographs by the author
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780199584383
Subjects: Ecology; Popular works; Evolution (Biology); Biological Evolution; Migrations; Human evolution; Human beings; Human ecology; Popular Works; Travel; Biodiversity conservation
Description: Wills shares with us some of the extraordinary sights he has seen, exploring each time the evolutionary processes that underlie the beauty and diversity of the wildlife.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-334) and index.
Table of contents: title: The living world. Shape-shifters ; The inner workings of evolution ; The shifting earth ; Crucibles of speciation ; Rainforests, diseases, and speciation; title: The human story. How domesticated animals changed the world ; The great migration ; The San and the Hobbits; title: A final postcard.