Reptiles and amphibians: the mainstream view Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder’s Fork and Lizard’s Leg Marty Crump (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL; 2015) ISBN 978-0-226-11600-6

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  • Rick Shine
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The author is engaged, entertaining, and never judgemental. At times, though, scholarly objectivity must have been a challenge for her — for example, when folk remedies call for acts of immense cruelty towards innocent amphibians (like the tongue removal above), or when fables advocate socially unpalatable attitudes (a frustrated male viper lauded for having sex with lampreys). I would have been tempted to insert a few snide comments, but Crump just moves on to the next story.

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Cognitive Ecology: The Evolutionary Ecology of Information Processing and Decision Making, Edited by Reuven Dukas, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1998. ix+420 pp., ISBN 0-226-16933-2.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Current Biology

دوره 26  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016