The Story of Life

  • Richard Southwood
Oxford University Press: 2003. 272 pp. £19.99

In The Story of Life, Oxford ecologist Richard Southwood takes his own look at the evolutionary blackbird. Southwood is a leading figure in ecology, thanks to his seminal work on insects and his landmark book Ecological Methods. For 18 years he taught an introductory course on the history of life, and out of that experience has sprung The Story of Life. Not surprisingly, Southwood sees the history of life in an ecological light, not as a single-file parade of new life forms but as a network of species whose links are being perpetually reworked.

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