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Life-as-web theory can't be woven from fieldwork yarns

By Bob Holmes

17 March 2010

FIELD ecologists make great storytellers, and John and Mary Theberge are no exception. During more than 30 years of research, the pair have cut a wide swathe: from watching grizzly bears in Alaska to recording birdsong in the North American forests to taking a census of jackals in Africa, and much in between. This book is a compilation of what they have learned about the natural world along the way.

Their tales of where they have been and what they’ve done are easily the best parts of the book, full of wit and eloquence and a deep love for the…

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