A Year's Watch in Nature
by David George Haskell
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appears in Nature, Hobbies, and Science.
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest.In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a onesquaremeter patch of oldgrowth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature?s path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its in...
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Consider The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins. Recommended by 11 sources.
“Reading feels brisk and combative: clear metaphors and thought experiments carry much of the book, making abstract evolutionary mechanics concrete for a general reader. The most useful material offers step-by-step dismantling of purposive explanations and replaces them with probabilistic accounts of variation and selection. Main limitation is tone and repetition—several chapters restate the same counterarguments at length—and occasional technical detours into probability and genetics that slow readers who prefer story over demonstration. No hands-on exercises.”
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