evolutionaryecology

This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought several interesting second-hand books
- What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract by Minouche Shafik, published by The Bodley Head.
- #StephenJayGould's Eight Little Piggies: Essays On #NaturalHistory, published back in 1993 by W.W. Norton & Co., another instalment of his collected essays.
- The edited collection #Parasite Diversity and Diversification: #EvolutionaryEcology Meets #Phylogenetics, published by Cambridge University Press.

#Books #Bookstodon #Sociology #Parasitology #EvolutionaryBiology #Evolution #Scicomm @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing upright on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books.

On the left, What We Owe Each Other, showing a hardback with an aerial colour photo, turned ninety degrees to the right, of a large city situated on a river. Numerous skyscrapers and high buildings are laid out in a regular square grid, suggesting this is a US city. A pinkish filter seems to have been applied to the photo.

In the middle, Eight Little Piggies, showing a light ochre hardback with a monotone cartoon illustration of a humanised ichthyosaur standing behind a lectern speaking to a crowd of other ichthyosaurs against a background of rocks and palms. They are gathered around a human skull. This is the famous 1830 cartoon drawn by geologist Henri de la Beche that poked fun at that idea of cyclical time and shows Professor Ichthyosaur giving a lecture about human fossils.

On the right, Parasite Diversity and Diversification, showing a white hardback with a circular phylogenetic tree on the right and several schematic colour silhouettes of vertebrate and invertebrate animals, each surrounded by a spiral pattern of small circles.

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