ANIMAL SCIENCE
The Natural History Reader in Animal Behavior.
Howard Topoff ed.
Columbia University Press December,
245 pp, $17 PB, $30 HB.
Collection of articles from Natural History that discusses new research on animal behavior, including animal orientation and habitat selection.
ASTRONOMY
New Ideas in Astronomy: A Symposium Celebrating the Sixtieth Birthday of Halton C. Arp.
Barry F. Madore, ed. Cambridge University.
Press: December, 400 pp, $49.50.
Explores the present state of the newest concepts in observational and theoretical astronomy, ranging from the evidence of organic life in space to the missing mass of the universe.
GENETICS
Annual Review of Genetics.
Volume 2. Allan Campbell, ed.
Annual Reviews:
December, 501 pp, $31.
Review articles on the history of population genetics, behavioral genetics, genetic recombination in bacteria, genetics. of biological rhythms and the regulation of DNA replication.
Mammalian Dispersal Patterns: The Effects of Social Structure on Population Genetics
B. Diane Chepko-Sade,...
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