The Song of the Dodo
Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
Ranked #12 in Zoology, Ranked #18 in Ecology — see more rankings.
David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment and wonders.
In The Song of the Dodo, we follow Quammen's keen intellect through the ideas, theories, and experiments of prominent naturalists of the last two centuries. We trail after him as he travels the world, tracking the subject of island biogeography, which... more
In The Song of the Dodo, we follow Quammen's keen intellect through the ideas, theories, and experiments of prominent naturalists of the last two centuries. We trail after him as he travels the world, tracking the subject of island biogeography, which... more
Reviews and Recommendations
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Isabella Tree Quammen’s wondrous peregrination of islands takes us on a journey of evolutions and extinctions in order to illustrate how like islands our continents have become. (Source)
Sean B Carroll The book covers the role that islands have played in our thinking about how nature works. (Source)
Rankings by Category
The Song of the Dodo is ranked in the following categories:
- #33 in Biology
- #47 in Environment
- #30 in Environmental Science
- #25 in Environmental Studies
- #40 in Environmentalism
- #33 in Evolution
- #51 in Geography
- #32 in History Of Science
- #25 in Life Sciences
- #50 in Nature
- #69 in Science and Math
- #19 in Wildlife
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