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Books-Received Get access Ecological Genetics: The Interface.— Peter F. Brussard (ed.). 1978. Springer-Verlag, New York, vii + 247 pp. $22.80.—Twelve chapters on the evolution of ecological parameters, coadaptarion, enzyme variation, hypoxia, sexual selection and genetics of Hawaiian and other Drosophila, speciation in field crickets, snail genetics, plant demography and genetics, and population differentiation, reproduced from typescript. Ecological Genetics: The Interface.— Peter F. Brussard (ed.). 1978. Springer-Verlag, New York, vii + 247 pp. $22.80.—Twelve chapters on the evolution of ecological parameters, coadaptarion, enzyme variation, hypoxia, sexual selection and genetics of Hawaiian and other Drosophila, speciation in field crickets, snail genetics, plant demography and genetics, and population differentiation, reproduced from typescript. Life Cycles: An Evolutionary Approach to the Physiology of Reproduction, Development and Ageing.— Peter Calow. 1978. Chapman and Hall, London, distributed by Halsted Press, John Wiley & Sons, New York, ix + 164 pp. $14.95.—A wideranging synthetic treatment of prokaryotes, protists, plants, and animals. Animal Learning: Survey and Analysis.— M. E. Bitterman, V. M. LoLordo, J. Bruce Overmier, Michael E. Rashotte 1979. Plenum Press, New York, xi + 510 pp. $42.50.—Covers conditioning, reward training, and allied topics. Fine Structure of Parasitic Protozoa: An Atlas of Micrographs, Drawings and Diagrams.— E. Scholtyseck 1979. Springer-Verlag, New York, vii + 206 pp. $39.80.—Illustrations of the ultrastructure of representative non-ciliate parasites. Dispersal Centres of Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) in the Neotropical Region.— Harald Schreiber. 1978. Biogeographica, Vol. 10; W. Junk, The Hague and Boston. 195 pp.—An argument for the existence of 18 “dispersal centres” in the Neotropics, based on sphingid distribution, of which “the majority” are congruent with those of Miiller based on terrestrial vertebrates. American Spiders.— Willis J. Gertsch. Second edition, 1979. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, xiii + 274 pp. $24.95.—A revised edition (after thirty years) of this classic popular account of the natural history of the North American spider fauna; with numerous new color plates. Behavioral Biology of Aplysia: A Contribution to the Comparative Study of Opisthobranch Molluscs. — Eric R. Kandel. 1979. W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, xiii + 463 pp. No price supplied. —Survey of the sensory structure and function, development, and behavior of marine snails. Contrasts in Behavior.— Ernst S. Reese Frederick J. Lighter (eds.). 1979. John Wiley and Sons, New York, xi + 406 pp. $27.50.—Twelve chapters on comparative aspects on the reproductive, communicative, regulatory, feeding, and social behavior of terrestrial and aquatic vertebrates. Why the Dinosaurs Became Extinct.— J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson. 1978. Meadowfield Press, Shildon, England DL4 2QZ. 86 pp. $8.40.—Stories for swapping on a wintry evening. Turtles: Perspectives and Research.— Marion Harless and Henry Morlock (eds.). 1979. John Wiley and Sons, New York, xiv + 695 pp. $45.00.—A general survey of turtle biology, with a single, brief, and less than up-to-date chapter on “Taxonomy, Evolution, and Zoogeography.” Das evolutive Plateau Saugetier: Origin and Early Evolution of Mammals.— D. Starck, H. F. Moeller, W. Maier, and G. Hahn 1978. Sonderbände des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg, No. 3; Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg. 95 pp. 26 marks.—Proceedings of the “22. Phylogenetisches Symposion” (1977) with chapters by the four authors, respectively, on monotremes, marsupials, the tribosphenic molar, and multituberculates. Sirenian Evolution in the North Pacific Ocean.— Daryl P. Domning 1978. Univ. of California Publ. in Geol. Sci., Vol. 118; University of California Press, Berkeley. 187 pp. $9.00.—A monographic study pertaining to material published in SZ 25:352-362. Kangaroo Rats: Intraspecific Variation in Dipodomys spectabilis Merriam and Dipodomys deserti Stephens.— Iyad A. Nader. 1978. Illinois Biological Monographs 49, University of Illinois Press, Urbana. 116 pp. $12.50.—Study of 14 skull measurements, six external measurements, and color in seven and four subspecies, respectively. Sensory Systems of Primates.— Charles R. Noback (ed.). 1978. Plenum Press, New York, xiii + 207 pp. $25.00.—Another volume in the “Advances in Primatology” series. Extra-ocular Photosensitivity.— N. Millott 1978. Meadowfield Press, Shildon, England DL4 2QZ. 52 pp. $8.40.—Popularized survey of the structural, biochemical, and physiological basis of light receptors other than eyes. Analysis of Ecological Systems.— David J. Horn, Rodger D. Mitchell, Gordon R. Stairs (eds.). 1979. Ohio State University Press, Columbus, ix + 312 pp. $27.50.—Chapters of evolutionary interest include “Fitness, Survival, and Optimality” by R. C. Lewontin, “Darwinian Analyses: The New Natural History” by Rodger D. Mitchell and Mary B. Williams, “The Ecology of Colonizing Species” by D. C. Embree, “Niche Segregation in Desert Lizards” by Erik R. Pianka, Raymond B. Huey, and Lawrence R. Lawlor, and “Development of Theory in Insect-Plant Interactions” by Lawrence E. Gilbert. Systematic Biology, Volume 28, Issue 3, September 1979, Pages 412–413, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/28.3.412 Published: 01 September 1979