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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections In Natural History from W.W. Norton & Co., another second-hand addition to my growing collection of #StephenJayGould's essays.
- A deeply discounted copy of The Trouble with #AncientDNA: Telling Stories of the Past with Genomic Science by Anna Källén from the University of Chicago Press.
- And because I'm a fan of moody street photography, a deeply discounted copy of Unfamiliar Underground: Finding the Calm in the Chaos of London's Tube Stations by Victoria Louise Howard from The History Press.

#Books #Bookstodon #NaturalHistory #Genetics #Genomics #LondonUnderground #Scicomm @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, standing up, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, showing a cream-coloured hardback with a black-and-white period cartoon showing Charles Darwin sitting down on a grassy lawn with a giant earthworm rearing up in front of him.

In the middle, lying down, The Trouble with Ancient DNA, showing a black hardback with a plain black cover and the title and author name on the spine in white lettering.

On the right, standing up, Unfamiliar Underground, showing a black hardback with a moody black-and-white photograph of a London tube station, completely devoid of people.

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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
- #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.

#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon

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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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