Abstract
Abstract Rather little is known about marsupials in comparison with most eutherian mammals. Lee and Cockburn redress this situation in a fascinating comparative account of the life-history, behaviour and ecology of marsupials, in which they attempt to integrate natural history observations within an evolutionary framework. Although the literature on marsupials has grown greatly in the last ten years (more than thirty per cent of the book's references are post-1980), most studies continue to be descriptive. The authors have made a bold attempt to provide a contemporary theoretical framework for these observations, and additionally document how the study of marsupials can illuminate problems of more general relevance in evolutionary ecology.
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