Review:
Darwinian Agriculture offers an engaging and bold explanation of why agricultural research must take better advantage of insights from evolutionary biology.---Allison A. Snow, Science
This book is a rich source of information for evolutionary biologists, biotechnologists and agriculturalists. It illustrates important evolutionary principles in an accessible way, using the farm of brother Tom as a recurrent tangible example. Evolutionary concepts, such as kin selection and relatedness are explained clearly, and illustrated with many examples that can be used for teaching. I can recommend this book to all students of evolutionary biology and ecology who are not afraid of applications. In fact, I may want to recommend it even more strongly to all those researchers, institutes and companies whose research aim it is to face the challenge of a growing world population that needs to be fed on a planet on which the climate is rapidly changing. Denison's arguments are convincing and we as humans may be missing out on a bright future if we ignore this book.---Duur K. Aanen, Evolution
Darwinian Agriculture provides an interesting and passionate but rather personal perspective that certainly challenges us to think a lot harder about what eco-evolutionary principles might have to offer agriculture (and vice versa), and it will hopefully stimulate a lot more scientists to conduct research across the agroecological interface.---Peter H. Thrall, Evolutionary Applications
This is an extremely interesting and provocative book and written in a very engaging way. . . . It is clear what Denison thinks about the topics he raises but he also brings in the opinion and experiments of others to provide breadth of examples and case studies. It is an ideal book for a graduate seminar or undergraduate capstone course. . . . If you're only going to buy one hard cover book this year, this should be it. By the time you're finished, the page margins will be filled with annotations!---Marshall D. Sundberg, Plant Science Bulletin
This volume is yet another winner from Princeton. . . . Although I have known the author for several years, I had no idea of the depth of his knowledge and amount of thought he has given to the topics covered in this book . . . The fact that reading this book kept me fully occupied on a 13 hour flight is a testimony to its interesting contents.---Janet Sprent, Bulletin of the British Ecological Society
Above all, Denison's book makes farming seem like the greatest show on earth and the most exciting game in town. Everyone reading it will want to become a farmer!---Stanley Shostak, European Legacy
Although 768 pages long, Hodges' Alan Turing: The Enigma is extremely readable.---Andrew Holleran, Gay & Lesbian Review
Darwinian Agriculture seems to provide important contributions for researchers as well as other experts and stakeholders in fields like agronomy, animal husbandry, breeding, pest control and nutrition. Moreover, this book also provides valuable insights for economists who have an interest in agriculture, ecology, and last but not least economic theory.---Alfons Balmann, Journal of Bioeconomics
"Darwinian Agriculture is a very important contribution to our understanding of the links between nature and agriculture, and to the future of our human race. Denison underpins his arguments with an incredible wealth of insight and knowledge about plants, animals, physics, chemistry, biology, and ecology. The depth and breadth of scholarship embodied in this book is stunning. I know of nothing else like it."--Kenneth G. Cassman, University of Nebraska
"I found this book to be tremendously interesting and thought-provoking. Darwinian Agriculture should be read by everyone interested in increasing agricultural production in a sustainable way--from biotechnologists to agronomists, and everyone in between."--Jay A. Rosenheim, University of California, Davis
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"Darwinian Agriculture is a very important contribution to our understanding of the links between nature and agriculture, and to the future of our human race. Denison underpins his arguments with an incredible wealth of insight and knowledge about plants, animals, physics, chemistry, biology, and ecology. The depth and breadth of scholarship embodied in this book is stunning. I know of nothing else like it."--Kenneth G. Cassman, University of Nebraska
"I found this book to be tremendously interesting and thought-provoking. Darwinian Agriculture should be read by everyone interested in increasing agricultural production in a sustainable way--from biotechnologists to agronomists, and everyone in between."--Jay A. Rosenheim, University of California, Davis
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