BOOK REVIEWS

The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters

Sean B Carroll

Princeton University Press, £16.95

Life’s Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable

Paul G Falkowski

Princeton University Press, £18.95

Steppes: The Plants and Ecology of the World’s Semi-arid Regions

Michael Bone, Dan Johnson, Panayoti Kelaidis, Mike Kintgen and Larry G Vickerman

Timber Press, £35.00

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

Franklin H Portugal

MIT Press, £19.95

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