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jumping on everyone else’s bandwagon, but has anyone ever evaluated the ‘science forecast’ ten years down the road? Nevertheless, this chapter provides several extremely useful starting points. The chapters are a bit heterogeneous in style, with some having glossaries and/or useful ‘future directions’ sections, whilst others do not. However, the quality of the chapters is consistently high, and all are easily intelligible, offering comprehensive and up-to-date reviews of their respective fields, making the book extremely valuable for teaching. The final sentence in Price’s chapter reads ‘...we can still learn from Darwin’s example – first the great naturalist, then the detector of pattern, then the formulator of mechanisms, and finally the creator of the central theory for life’. Few of us are destined to go through all these stages, but Plant–Animal Interactions will certainly be a useful tool for students of biology wishing to be successful in at least one!