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A Layperson's Guide to the Southern Ocean

A Layperson's Guide to the Southern Ocean Books commonplace in Darwin’s day. Platonists, in the allotted space. A problem through- out this section is that some technical primarily Continental Platonists, placed A LAYPERSON’S GUIDE TO THE terms are defined but others are not. For much more emphasis on forms than did example, “Ekman transport” is presented their meat-and-potatoes English con- SOUTHERN OCEAN without definition, but a few pages later, temporaries. A role for forms in evolu- a full paragraph is devoted to the defi- tionary theory has been resurrected in The Complete Guide to Antarctic nition of convergence and divergence. If recent years. Wildlife: Birds and Marine Mammals a layperson is supposed to know what All of the preceding discussion pre- of the Antarctic Continent and the Ekman transport is, I imagine that he or pares the stage for a return to a final Southern Ocean. Hadoram Shirihai. she would know what convergence and treatment of complexity and design. Illustrated by Brett Jarrett. Princeton divergence are as well. I noted one error Given all the improvements in contem- University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002. in this section: There is no illustration of porary evolutionary theory, how does 512 pp., illus. $49.50 (ISBN 0691114145 a food chain on http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png BioScience Oxford University Press

A Layperson's Guide to the Southern Ocean

BioScience , Volume 54 (2) – Feb 1, 2004

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Oxford University Press
Copyright
© 2004 American Institute of Biological Sciences
Subject
Book Reviews
ISSN
0006-3568
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1525-3244
DOI
10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0164:ALGTTS]2.0.CO;2
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Abstract

Books commonplace in Darwin’s day. Platonists, in the allotted space. A problem through- out this section is that some technical primarily Continental Platonists, placed A LAYPERSON’S GUIDE TO THE terms are defined but others are not. For much more emphasis on forms than did example, “Ekman transport” is presented their meat-and-potatoes English con- SOUTHERN OCEAN without definition, but a few pages later, temporaries. A role for forms in evolu- a full paragraph is devoted to the defi- tionary theory has been resurrected in The Complete Guide to Antarctic nition of convergence and divergence. If recent years. Wildlife: Birds and Marine Mammals a layperson is supposed to know what All of the preceding discussion pre- of the Antarctic Continent and the Ekman transport is, I imagine that he or pares the stage for a return to a final Southern Ocean. Hadoram Shirihai. she would know what convergence and treatment of complexity and design. Illustrated by Brett Jarrett. Princeton divergence are as well. I noted one error Given all the improvements in contem- University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002. in this section: There is no illustration of porary evolutionary theory, how does 512 pp., illus. $49.50 (ISBN 0691114145 a food chain on

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BioScienceOxford University Press

Published: Feb 1, 2004

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