BOOK REVIEWS

Critical Role of Animal Science Research in Food Security and Sustainability

The National Academies Press, £53.00

50 Ideas you really need to know: Chemistry

Hayley Birch

Quercus, £11.99

Descriptive Taxonomy: The Foundation of Biodiversity Research

Mark F Watson, Chris H C Lyal and Colin Pendry (eds)

Cambridge University Press, £65.00

Animal Madness: Inside Their Minds

Laurel Braitman

Scribe Publications, £12.99

Life’s Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable

Paul G Falkowski

Princeton University Press, £18.95

Parrots of the Wild: A Natural History of the World’s Most Captivating Birds

Catherine A Toft and Timothy F Wright

University of California Press, £27.95

The Least Likely Man: Marshall Nirenberg and the Discovery of the Genetic Code

Franklin H Portugal

MIT Press, £19.95

Nests, Eggs, & Incubation: New ideas about avian reproduction

D C Deeming and S J Reynolds (Eds)

Oxford University Press, £65.00