Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins. Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B. Stanford. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 322 pp. $24.95 (ISBN 9780674027817 cloth).

Biology of the Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina). Anthony C. Steyermark, Michael S. Finkler, and Ronald J. Brooks, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2008. 240 pp., illus. $75.00 (ISBN 9780801887246 cloth).

A Bird-Finding Guide to Panama. George R. Angehr, Dodge Engleman, and Lorna Engleman. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2008. 392 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 9780801474231 paper).

Charles Darwin. Michael Ruse. Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2008. 350 pp., illus. $25.00 (ISBN 9781405149136 paper).

Conserving Plant Genetic Diversity in Protected Areas: Population Management of Crop Wild Relatives. José María Iriondo, Nigel Maxted, and Mohammad Ehsan Dulloo, eds. CABI, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 226 pp., illus. $150.00 (ISBN 9781845932824 cloth).

Ecology. Michael L. Cain, William D. Bowman, and Sally D. Hacker. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA, 2008. 552 pp., illus. $107.95 (ISBN 9780878930838 cloth).

Ensuring Greater Yellowstone's Future: Choices for Leaders and Citizens. Susan G. Clark. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008. 320 pp., illus. $45.00 (ISBN 9780300124224 cloth).

Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. Glenn Adelson, James Engell, Brent Ranalli, and K. P. Van Anglen, eds. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008. 984 pp., illus. $70.00 (ISBN 9780300126143 cloth).

Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science. Elliott Sober. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008. 412 pp., illus. $29.99 (ISBN 9780521692748 paper).

Fossil Ecosystems of North America: A Guide to the Sites and Their Extraordinary Biotas. John R. Nudds and Paul A. Selden. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. 288 pp., illus. $39.00 (ISBN 9780226607221 paper).

A Guide to the Mammals of Southeast Asia. Charles M. Francis. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. 392 pp., illus. $55.00 (ISBN 9780691135519 cloth).

High-Pressure Microbiology. Chris Michiels, Douglas H. Bartlett, and Abram Aertsen, eds. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2008. 364 pp., illus. $139.95 (ISBN 9781555814236 cloth).

Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective. Torben C. Rick and Jon M. Erlandson, eds. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008. 336 pp., illus. $60.00 (ISBN 9780520253438 cloth).

Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves. Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, 2008. 216 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 9781585445677 cloth).

In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA. James Schwartz. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 370 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 9780674026704 cloth).

It's a Jungle Up There: More Tales from the Treetops. Margaret D. Lowman, Edward Burgess, and James Burgess. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008. 320 pp., illus. $18.00 (ISBN 9780300129236 paper).

Lost Worlds: Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest. Bruce M. Beehler. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008. 272 pp., illus. $28.00 (ISBN 9780300122282 cloth).

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. Simon Winchester. Harper Collins, New York, 2008. 336 pp., illus. $27.95 (ISBN 9780060884598 cloth).

Of Prairie, Woods, and Water: Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing. Joel Greenberg, ed. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. 424 pp., illus. $25.00 (ISBN 9780226306612 paper).

Pathways to Scientific Teaching. Diane Ebert-May and Janet Hodder, eds. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA, 2008. 224 pp., illus. $27.95 (ISBN 9780878932221 paper).

A Photographic Guide to Seashore Life in the North Atlantic: Canada to Cape Cod. J. Duane Sept. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. 224 pp., illus. $19.95 (ISBN 9780691133195 paper).

Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology. Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, eds. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008. 416 pp., illus. $40.00 (ISBN 9780300116397 cloth).

State of the Wild 2008–2009: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans. Wildlife Conservation Society. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2008. 312 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 9781597261357 paper).

Statistical Genetics: Gene Mapping through Linkage and Association. Benjamin M. Neale, Manuel A. R. Ferreira, Sarah E. Medland, and Danielle Posthuma, eds. Taylor and Francis, New York, 2007. 608 pp., illus. $75.95 (ISBN 9780415410403 paper).

Theories of Population Variation in Genes and Genomes. Freddy Bugge Christiansen. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. 432 pp., illus. $75.00 (ISBN 9780691133676 cloth).

Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food. Pamela C. Ronald and Raoul W. Adamchak. Oxford University Press, New York, 2008. 208 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 9780195301755 cloth).