Excerpt
Jeffrey Hutchings has called his book ‘A Primer of Life Histories’. Merriam-Webster has various definitions of the word ‘primer’. It can mean a small introductory book on a subject, a short informative piece of text, or a small book for teaching children to read. The book is indeed relatively small (just passing 200 pages), but maybe Hutchings was a little modest when deciding on the title?
Publication details
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Published: 26 March 2022
TREE 2980. 2 pages.
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2022.03.001
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