Major new book about to appear

[StephanPickering@cs.com]

Jonathan Wright and  M.L. Leonard, eds., 2002. Evolution of nestling begging: competition, cooperation, and communication (Kluwer Academic Publishers). Alas, at @$161.00, it is overpriced --- at @ $30.00, one could see the value, but publishers of books for people who can think while they read do not make $$, unlike publishers who release product for those sitting in airport lobbies hurriedly turning paperback pages looking for pictures between the words. 
Needless to say, this volume is a breakthrough in the amalgamation of ecomorphological studies and work on behavioural systems, and, reading each paper, one is given a panorama of what possibly may have been paradigms in the pre-K/T period. (Contrary to press reports, a rainforest over a million years after the bollide impact is not surprising, given possible recovery processes in biozones, and it is this period where one could logically find keys to psychosocial adaptations of dinosaurs.) In particular, I recommond B. Glassey & L.S. Forbes's "Begging and asymmetric nestling competition", as it is an excellent introduction.