The Darwinian Tourist: Viewing the World Through Evolutionary Eyes

In The Darwinian Tourist, biologist Christopher Wills takes us on a series of adventures—exciting in their own right—that demonstrate how ecology and evolution have interacted to create the world we live in.

Some of these adventures, like his SCUBA dives in the incredibly diverse Lembeh Strait in Indonesia or his encounter with a wild wolf cub in western Mongolia, might have been experienced by any reasonably intrepid traveller. Others, like his experience of being hammered by a severe…