Quarterly Review of Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Quarterly Review of Biology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
:Microbiology of Infectious Disease: Integrating Genomics with Natural History31
:The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants26
In Memoriam16
:The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, From Animals to AI to Aliens13
:The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution11
:Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life9
Effective Conservation Science: Data Not Dogma. Edited by Peter Kareiva, Michelle Marvier, and Brian Silliman. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $100.00 (hardcover); $49.95 (paper).7
To the Last Smoke: An Anthology. By Stephen J. Pyne. Tucson (Arizona): University of Arizona Press. $29.95 (paper). x + 436 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-8165-4012-9. 2020.7
What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology. By Paul Nurse. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $20.00. ix + 145 p.; no index. ISBN: 9780393541151 (hc); 9780393541168 (eb). 2020.5
:The Lives of Seaweeds. A Natural History of Our Planet’s Seaweeds and Other Algae4
:On the Origin of Being: Understanding the Science of Evolution to Enhance Your Quality of Life4
:Animal as Machine: The Quest to Understand How Animals Work and Adapt3
Directory of Publishers3
:Common Bees of Western North America. Princeton Field Guides3
:Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved3
:Conservation of Marine Birds2
:The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage2
:Parasites: The Inside Story1
:Landscape Evolution: Landforms, Ecosystems, and Soils1
:The Ecology of Collective Behavior1
The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund1
:Communication between Honeybees: More Than Just a Dance in the Dark1
:Yellowstone’s Birds: Diversity and Abundance in the World’s First National Park1
:Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin1
:Cryptic Species: Morphological Stasis, Circumscription, and Hidden Diversity. The Systematics Association Special Volume 891
:Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others1
:One Step Sideways, Three Steps Forward: One Woman’s Path to Becoming a Biologist1
Thinking through Climate Change: A Philosophy of Energy in the Anthropocene. Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and Its Successors. By Adam Briggle. Palgrave (Macmillan). Cham (Switzerl1
:Insect Diapause0
:Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace0
Index to Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed0
:The Desert Bones: The Paleontology and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa0
:The Well-Connected Animal: Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies0
:Demographic Methods across the Tree of Life0
:Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference. Science-Culture Series0
:Deep Water: From the Frilled Shark to the Dumbo Octopus and From the Continental Shelf to the Mariana Trench0
:Dinosaur Behavior: An Illustrated Guide0
:Terns of North America: A Photographic Guide0
Index to Reviewers of Books0
Handbook of the Historiography of Biology. Historiographies of Science. Edited by Michael R. Dietrich, Mark E. Borrello, and Oren Harman. Cham (Switzerland) and New York: Springer. $449.99. xiv0
:The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution0
:Organisms Amplify Diversity: An Autocatalytic Hypothesis0
: Behavioural Responses to a Changing World: Challenges and Applications0
:The Evolution of Biological Information: How Evolution Creates Complexity, from Viruses to Brains0
:Do Plants Know Math?0
:Nonhuman Primate Welfare: From History, Science, and Ethics to Practice0
:Mosquitoes: A Laboratory Manual0
Front Matter0
Index to Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed0
:Hymenoptera: The Natural History and Diversity of Wasps, Bees, and Ants0
:The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium0
The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund0
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World. By Oliver Milman. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $27.95. vii + 260 p.; index. ISBN: 9781324006596 (hc); 9781324006602 0
:All You Need to Know About Spiders0
Front Matter0
:Inshore Fishes of Britain and Ireland0
:Origin Africa: A Natural History0
:Evolution “On Purpose”: Teleonomy in Living Systems. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology0
:Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change0
:Nematodes as Model Organisms0
:The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works0
:The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century. Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene0
:Reconciling Agricultural Production with Biodiversity Conservation. Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science, Number 870
: Evolution and Development: Conceptual Issues0
:Ants: A Visual Guide0
:An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us0
Marine Disease Ecology. Edited by Donald C. Behringer, Brian R. Silliman, and Kevin D. Lafferty. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $100.00 (hardcover); $49.95 (paper). ix + 269 p.; 0
:Kingdoms, Empires, and Domains: The History of High-Level Biological Classification0
Bat Calls of Britain and Europe: A Guide to Species Identification. Edited by Jon Russ. Exeter (United Kingdom): Pelagic Publishing. £49.99. x + 462 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-1-78427-225-8 (hc0
:Birds of Costa Rica. Princeton Field Guides0
:Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds0
:Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology. Wildlife Management and Conservation0
: Foundations of Stream and River Ecology: A Guide to the Classic Literature0
The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund0
Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation. Wildlife Management and Conservation. Edited by Christopher E. Moorman, Steven M. Grodsky, and Susan P. Rupp. Published in association with The Wildl0
:Understanding Evo-Devo. Understanding Life Series0
:The Lives of Sharks. A Natural History of Shark Life0
Index to Reviewers of Books0
The Nucleus. Second Edition. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. Edited by Ana Pombo, Martin W. Hetzer, and Tom Misteli. Cold Spring Harbor (New York): Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pre0
:Drawing Nature: The Creative Process of an Artist, Illustrator, and Naturalist0
:Human Behavioral Ecology0
Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature. By Richard Rhodes. New York: Doubleday. $30.00. xiii + 270 p. + 16 pl.; ill.; index. ISBN: 9780385545556 (hc); 9780385545563 (eb). 2021.0
:Human Migration: Biocultural Perspectives0
:Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils0
:The Complete Insect: Anatomy, Physiology, Evolution, and Ecology0
Directory of Publishers0
:Evolution and the Machinery of Chance: Philosophy, Probability, and Scientific Practice in Biology0
Index to Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed0
Titles and Authors of Articles and Commentaries0
:The Biology of Death: How Dying Shapes Cells, Organisms, and Populations0
:Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know0
Turtles of the World: A Guide to Every Family. By Jeffrey E. Lovich and Whit Gibbons. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press. $29.95. 240 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-691-22322-3 (h0
:For Want of Wings: A Bird with Teeth and a Dinosaur in the Family0
:Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology0
:A New History of Vaccines for Infectious Diseases: Immunization — Chance and Necessity0
:Evolutionary Developmental Biology: A Reference Guide0
: Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World0
:Pocket Guide to Birds of Australia0
The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory: A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic. By Charles H. Pence. Academic Press. Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and New York: Elsevier. $106.25 (paper). vii + 182 p.0
:Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions0
Quantitative Analysis of Ecological Networks. By Mark R. T. Dale and Marie-Josée Fortin. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $115.00 (hardcover); $49.99 (paper). x + 221 p. + 160
Directory of Publishers0
:Island Biogeography: Geo-environmental Dynamics, Ecology, Evolution, Human Impact, and Conservation0
:The Species–Area Relationship: Theory and Application. Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation0
: Is a River Alive?0
The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund0
:The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature’s Hidden Rules0
Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of the United States. By Walter E. Meshaka Jr., Suzanne L. Collins, R. Bruce Bury, and Malcolm L. McCallum. Gainesville (Florida): University Press of Florida. $50
Front Matter0
:Principles of Behavioral Neuroscience0
Animal Rights and Conservation: A Fresh Perspective0
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think. By Jennifer Ackerman. New York: Penguin Press. $28.00 (hardcover). xii + 355 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 9780735223011 (hc)0
Taste and Smell: A Unifying Chemosensory Theory0
:Two Acres of Time: Unearthing the Ice Age at the Byron Dig0
:Epigenetics and Health: A Practical Guide0
Why Brains Don’t Compute. By Dale Purves. New York and (Cham) Switzerland: Springer. $119.99 (hardcover); $89.00 (eBook). xv + 168 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-3-030-71063-7 (hc); 978-3-030-710640
:Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth0
Exploring the Factors Driving the Success of Urban-Exploiting Spiders0
:Understanding Living Systems. Understanding Life Series0
: Toxicology of Amphibian Tadpoles0
: The Foundations of Population Genetics0
:Life Is Simple: How Occam’s Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe0
: Revisiting the Eclipse of Darwinism: A Historiographical and Philosophical Analysis0
:Exploring Animal Behavior through Sound. Volume 1. Methods0
:Blood Groups and Human Heredity, 1900–1950: The First Genetic Marker0
:Snakes of Australia0
:Plastic Pollution and Marine Conservation: Approaches to Protect Biodiversity and Marine Life0
:Cellular and Molecular Approaches in Fish Biology0
:California Amphibians and Reptiles0
:Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes0
:Paths of Pollen0
:Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature’s Toxins—From Spices to Vices0
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A Paradigm Shift, or a Paradigm Adjustment? The Evolution of the Oleaceae Mating System as a Small-Scale Kuhnian Case Study0
:Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds0
Heart Development and Disease. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. Edited by Benoit G. Bruneau and Paul R. Riley. Cold Spring Harbor (New York): Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. $130
:Planktonia: The Nightly Migration of the Ocean’s Smallest Creatures0
:A History of Genomics across Species, Communities and Projects0
Conservation Genetics in Mammals: Integrative Research Using Novel Approaches. Edited by Jorge Ortega and Jesus E. Maldonado. Cham (Switzerland) and New York: Springer. $179.99. vii + 378 p.; i0
:The Parrot in the Mirror: How Evolving to Be Like Birds Made Us Human0
:Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition0
:Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More0
Addiction. Second Edition. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. Edited by R. Christopher Pierce, Ellen M. Unterwald, and Paul J. Kenny. Cold Spring Harbor (New York): Cold Spring Harbor0
:Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion0
The Ecology of Herbal Medicine: A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest. By Dara Saville; Foreword by Jesse Wolf Hardin. Albuquerque (New Mexico): University of New Me0
:Antibiofilm Strategies: Current and Future Applications to Prevent, Control and Eradicate Biofilms. Springer Series on Biofilms, Volume 110
: The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog and Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science0
Reviewers of Books0
:Ethics in Biodiversity Conservation0
:Treasure Your Exceptions: The Science and Life of William Bateson. Second Edition0
:Evolutionary Ecology of Amphibians0
:Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan0
Directory of Publishers0
:Updating Neanderthals: Understanding Behavioural Complexity in the Late Middle Palaeolithic0
:Ecological Complexity0
:Foundations of Ecology II: Classic Papers with Commentaries0
:Invading Ecological Networks. Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation0
:A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How It Made Us Human0
:Salamanders & Newts of the World0
Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed0
:Ernst Haeckel: Ausgewählte Briefwechsel. Band 3: Familienkorrespondenz: April 1857 - März 18590
Directory of Publishers0
Unraveling the Environment-Phenotype-Genotype Nexus: Successful Approaches from Bird Colors and How to Apply Them to Other Traits and Taxa0
:Applied Statistics with R: A Practical Guide for the Life Sciences0
:Sound Communication in Insects. Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 610
How Might Artificial Intelligence Influence Human Evolution?0
A Primer of Life Histories: Ecology, Evolution, and Application. By Jeffrey A. Hutchings. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $85.00 (hardcover); $42.95 (paper). xiv + 226 p.; ill.; s0
:Ocean Acidification and Marine Wildlife: Physiological and Behavioral Impacts0
:Understanding DNA Ancestry. Understanding Life Series0
:Evolution and Phylogeny of Pancrustacea: A Story of Scientific Method0
: Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate0
Sensitive Period Diversity: Insights From Evolutionary Models0
:Much Like Us: What Science Reveals about the Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviour of Animals0
:Aging: Geroscience as the New Public Health Frontier. Second Edition. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine0
:New Horizons in Evolution0
A Mathematical Primer of Molecular Phylogenetics. By Xuhua Xia. Palm Bay (Florida): Apple Academic Press; distributed by CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. $149.95 (hardcover); $69.95 (paper). xii0
Crop Pollination by Bees. Volume 1: Evolution, Ecology, Conservation, and Management. Second Edition. By Keith S. Delaplane. Wallingford (United Kingdom) and Boston (Massachusetts): CABI. $67.50
:Parasites in Past Civilizations and Their Impact upon Health0
:Invertebrate Pathology0
:Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic0
:The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, From the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us0
:Ancient Woods, Trees and Forests: Ecology, History and Management0
Influenza: The Cutting Edge. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. Edited by Gabriele Neumann and Yoshihiro Kawaoka. Cold Spring Harbor (New York): Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. $0
:Shrimps: Their Diversity, Intriguing Adaptations and Varied Lifestyles. Fish & Fisheries Series, Volume 420
State of the Apes: Killing, Capture, Trade and Conservation. Volume 4. Edited by Helga Rainer, Alison White, and Annette Lanjouw. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $99.99 (har0
:In Search of Human Evolution: Field Research in Diverse Environments0
: Experiments in Bacterial Genetics: A Laboratory Manual0
Animals’ Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild. By Barbara J. King. Chicago (Illinois): University of Chicago Press. $25.00. ix + 274 p.; index. ISBN0
Index to Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed0
Index to Reviewers of Books Volume 99 (2024)0
:Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics0
The Era beyond Eisemann et al. (1984): Insect Pain in the 21st Century0
:The Lives of Beetles: A Natural History of Coleoptera0
:Heart of the Hive: Inside the Mind of the Honey Bee and the Incredible Life Force of the Colony0
The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund0
The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund0
: The Gull Guide: North America0
:A Curious Herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell’s Pioneering Masterpiece of Botanical Art0
:Field Guide to Sharks, Rays & Chimaeras of the East Coast of North America0
:The Anthropocene: 101 Questions and Answers for Understanding the Human Impact on the Global Environment0
:Biology of Algae, Lichens and Bryophytes0
Index to Articles Volume 100 (2025)0
:Plant-Animal Interactions: Source of Biodiversity0
:The Bird Name Book: A History of English Bird Names0
:George Meléndez Wright: The Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks0
:The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science0
Index to Reviewers of Books0
:Genomic Citizenship: The Molecularization of Identity in the Contemporary Middle East0
:Understanding Genes. Understanding Life Series0
:Climate Change Adaptation: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer. Columbia University Earth Institute Sustainability Primers0
The Handbook of Acoustic Bat Detection. By Volker Runkel, Guido Gerding, and Ulrich Marckmann; translated by Iain Macmillan. Exeter (United Kingdom): Pelagic Publishing. $50.00 (paper). xii + 10
:Extinctions: From Dinosaurs to You0
Directory of Publishers0
:Understanding Charles Darwin. Understanding Life Series0
Semi-aquatic Mammals: Ecology and Biology. By Glynnis A. Hood; illustrated by Meaghan Brierley. Baltimore (Maryland): Johns Hopkins University Press. $74.95. xxxi + 469 p.; ill.; subject index.0
Collected Contents: Volume 970
Life Out of Balance: Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World. Nexus Series. By Joel B. Hagen. Tuscaloosa (Alabama): University of Alabama Press. $59.95. xiii + 341 p.; ill.; index. ISBN0
:Caribou: Wind Walkers of the Northern Wilderness0
Index to Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed0
:Population Biology of Vector-Borne Diseases. Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Series0
:Gibbon Conservation in the Anthropocene0
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:Impacts of Human Population on Wildlife: A British Perspective. Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation0
Revisiting Rapoport’s Rule: The History of an Idea and Alternative Explanations for Latitudinal Variation in Geographic Range Size0
:Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities0
Announcement: 100 Years, Volume 100, Number 40
Index to Reviewers of Books Volume 100 (2025)0
:Birds of Greater Southern Africa. Princeton Field Guides.0
Mutation, Randomness, and Evolution. By Arlin Stoltzfus. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $85.00. xiii + 268 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-19-884445-7. [A companion website is avail0
Immortal: Our Cells, DNA, and Bodies. By David Goldman. Academic Press. Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and New York: Elsevier. $72.20 (paper). xvi + 188 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-323-85692-8. 20
Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation. By Edward O. Wilson; adapted by Jim Ottaviani; art by C. M. Butzer; coloring by Hilary Sycamore. Washington (DC): Island Press. $28.00. vi + 232 p.; ill.; no i0
Index to Reviewers of Books0
:The Lives of Lichens: A Natural History0
: Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould0
:Enchanted by Daphne: The Life of an Evolutionary Naturalist0
:A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine0
:Why Conserve Nature?: Perspectives on Meanings and Motivations. Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation0
Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America. By Nadine Weidman. Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University Press. $45.00. vii + 360 p.; ill.; index. ISB0
Index to Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed0
Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science. By Tara Ivanochko. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $74.99 (hardcover); $39.99 (paper). x + 239 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978110
:Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications0
:Lung Cancer: Disease Biology and Its Potential for Clinical Translation. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine0
Population Genomics: Wildlife. Population Genomics Series. Edited by Paul A. Hohenlohe and Om P. Rajora. Cham (Switzerland) and New York: Springer. $179.99 (hardcover); $139.00 (eBook). xiv + 50
:The Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Disease0
:How We Age: The Science of Longevity0
:Remapping Race in a Global Context. History and Philosophy of Biology0
:Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs0
:Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life. Astrobiology Perspectives on Life of the Universe0
:Philip Henry Gosse: A Biography0
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