Having recently read that a new volume of the New Naturalist Library was soon to be available, I had an intuition that Mark Avery already had a copy of it and would soon be publishing one of his Sunday Book Reviews about it. So paying a visit to his blog today I was not on the least surprised to discover that the subject of his most recent review is, of course, David Wilkinson’s “Ecology and Natural History,” New Naturalist Library volume 143.
Through examining the types of locomotion employed by various living things and considering it agains that the environments in which each evolved, Wilkinson takes his readers through four billion years of movement and explains how the challenge of getting from place to place is really one of the driving forces behind evolution itself.