Books available for review announcement - November update!
The following volumes are available to Paleontological Society members in exchange for writing a review in Priscum. Reviews should be informative, engaging, and 400–800 words long. The tone can be informal and casual, appropriate to recommending a book to colleagues. Reviews are expected to be returned within six months after receipt. Past book reviews can be found in past issues of Priscum at https://www.paleosoc.org/priscum-newsletter and https://www.paleosoc.org/blog. Reviewers must be a current member of the Paleontological Society before beginning review. If you are interested in reviewing one of these texts, please contact Book Reviews Editor Phil Novack-Gottshall ([email protected])
Book publishers: Please contact Book Reviews Editor Phil Novack-Gottshall ([email protected]) if you are interested in providing review copies for inclusion in Priscum, which has a readership of more than 1,100 professional and avocational paleontologists, and with reviews that are published with open access.
Available for Review
Allen, B. 2025. Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds: Stories of Extinction. Reaktion Books.
Barrett, P.M. 2024. A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils. Smithsonian Books.
Benito, J. and R. Olivé. 2024. Birds of the Mesozoic. Princeton Field Guides. PrincetonUniv. Press.
Catania, K. 2025. On the Art and Craft of Doing Science. Princeton Univ. Press.
Cook, K.H. 2025. Climate Dynamics, 2nd Edition. Princeton Univ. Press.
Damuth, J. and L. R. Ginzburg. 2025. Nonadaptive Selection: An Evolutionary Source of Ecological Laws. Univ. Chicago Press.
Darwin, C. J. T. Costa and E. E. Yale, eds. 2026. The Descent of Man: An Annotated Edition of Darwin’s Classic Work. Princeton Univ. Press.
Halls, K.M. R. Spears (illustrator). 2024. A Dinosaur for Washington: The True Story of Suciasaurus. An Illustrated Children’s Book. Little Bigfoot Press.
Hobbs, N. T. and M. B. Hooten. 2025. Bayesian Models: A Statistical Primer for Ecologists, 2nd Edition. Princeton Univ. Press.
Hone, D. 2024. Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know. Princeton Univ. Press.
Kabatko, L. and L. L. Knowles, eds. 2025. Species Tree Inference: A Guide to Methods and Applications. Princeton Univ. Press.
Lala, K. N., T. Uller, N. Feiner, M. Feldman, and S. F. Gilbert. 2024. Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity. Princeton Univ. Press.
Lambert, J.E., M.A.H. Bryer, and J.M. Rothman. 2024. How Primates Eat: A Synthesis of Nutritional Ecology across a Mammal Order. Univ. Chicago Press.
Levine, A. J. 2025. Living Matter: Seeking New Physics in the Biological World. Princeton Univ. Press.
Lieberman, B. S., and Eldredge, N. 2024. Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould. Columbia Univ. Press.
Lloyd, K. G. Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth. Princeton Univ. Press.
Manias, C. 2025. Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science Lost Creatures and Deep Time. UCL Press.
Mindell, D. P. 2024. The Network of Life: A New View of Evolution. Princeton Univ. Press.
Paul, G.S. 2024. The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs. 3rd edition. PrincetonUniv. Press.
Paul, G.S. 2024. The Princeton Guide to Predatory Dinosaurs. PrincetonUniv. Press.
Vellend, M. 2025. Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics. Princeton Univ. Press.
Witton, M.P. 2025. King Tyrant: A Natural History of Tyrannosaurus rex. PrincetonUniv. Press.
Wood., G. D. 2025. The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline. Princeton Univ. Press.