The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms

Description

Author: Barlow, Connie  (1952-)

Publisher: Basic Books

Pub Date: 2000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Some highlighting.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped.  Wear to upper front and rear cover edges, spine head has an approx. 1/2″ closed tear, worn, wrinkled.  One approx. 4″  cut along spine.

Notes:  “…all living species evolve intricate, mutually dependent relationships with other species…ecologists had also assumed that all species are adapted for their present environment.  But what happens when a partner in one of these mutually dependent relationships goes extinct?  The remaining partner is no longer well adapted: it becomes an ecological anachronism.” (From the dust jacket)  From the library of the late environmentalist Dave Foreman.