Books by Niles Eldredge and Complete Book Reviews
Niles Eldredge, Author . Norton $24.95 (269p) ISBN 978-0-393-05082-0
As the title promises, this is all about sex, but not the way you might think. Eldredge (The Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of Creationism
, etc.), a paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, believes that...
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Niles Eldredge, Author . Norton $35 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-05966-3
The bicentennial of Darwin's birth in 2009 and the sesquicentennial of the publication of On the Origin of Species
will be commemorated by a touring exhibition curated by author Eldredge (Life on Earth
), of the American Museum of Natural...
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Niles Eldredge, Author Henry Holt & Company $24.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0-7167-3638-7
Kansas educators delete Darwin. A Berkeley law professor treats evolution as just another hypothesis. Other high-profile creationists turn up on TV and influence local school boards. What's a science educator to do? Though theorists argue ancillary...
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Niles Eldredge, Author Facts on File $24.5 (246p) ISBN 978-0-8160-1151-3
This biological approach to paleontology examines the history of entire ecosystems as well as evolutionary change. Eldredge, of the American Museum of Natural History and author of Time Frames, leads us on a vast journey through time and space. One...
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Niles Eldredge, Author, Steve Lindblom, Author, True Kelley, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $9.95 (111p) ISBN 978-0-201-18599-7
It's hard to imagine a more comprehensive or entertaining guide for budding paleontologists. More than 50 brief chapters are filled with intriguing historical information and practical hints (occasional punning chapter titles will no doubt provoke...
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Niles Eldredge. Firefly Books, $45 (256p) ISBN 978-1-77085-359-1
In a world where science is under assault from many angles, this wonderfully illustrated account of how evolution "joins nature in all its disparity into a single flow" is both timely and authoritative. Author Eldredge (Life in the Balance), a...
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Niles Eldredge, Author, Eldredge Niles, Author, Niles Eldridge, Author W.H. Freeman & Company $24.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-7167-3046-0
In these rich, dense, stimulating essays, Eldredge (Life in the Balance), curator of invertebrate paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, improvises on Darwin by sketching a grand, sweeping, ecologically based theory that links...
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Niles Eldredge, Author, Niles Eldridge, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (190p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2982-6
Some 10,000 years ago, declares Eldredge, humans invented agriculture and became the first species to live beyond the confines of a local ecosystem. Ever since, notes the author, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City,...
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Eldredge Niles, Author, Niles Eldredge, Author Prentice Hall $20 (246p) ISBN 978-0-13-583659-0
Eldredge, curator and chairman of the department of invertebrates at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, surveys the last 670 million years, examining factors that cause extinction without human intervention and, later, the effects...
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