The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
#3445 of 3,809 books · #507 in Science & Technology
Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (1996).
Takes a close-up look at island biogeography, the science of the geographic distribution of life on islands, and its significance in terms of evolution and extinction.
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- ISBN-13
- 9780684827124
- Genre
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Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestShortlisted(1996)
Other awarded books from David Quammen
- Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (2012)0 wins · 8 score
- Breathless: The Scientific Race To Defeat a Deadly Virus (2022)0 wins · 7 score
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