Notable forthcoming book

[StephanPickering@cs.com]

     Frans de Waal -- the organismic biologist who has, often, gone beyond primates to glean understandings of ecomorphologies and behavioural systems -- has teamed up with Peter Tyack, and late this year or the first few months of 2003, will be releasing a stunning, 640 page collection of papers, Animal social complexity (Harvard University Press)...the array of topics (from avian theropods to hyaenids and wild dogs of Africa) will prove to be a veritable goldmine for those of us who infer pre-K/T dinosaur strategies from ongoing macroevolutionary processes and population dynamics. I'm sorry for the lapse in forgetting readers of these postings:  dinosaur data and interpolations, the interpolations of actualisme/aktualismus, cannot be gleaned from televisioned utopianism nor comic books. In fact, using a little imagination (and a litt!
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