Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace James T. CostaPRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS: 2023. 515 pp. £35

The September 2023 release of the Taskforce for Nature-Related Financial Disclosures is just one event in a groundswell of discussion around who must pay to protect and restore nature.

Genome sequences of all living kākāpō provide new approaches for evidence-based conservation management, including the identification of genomic regions that are associated with fitness traits, at a time of increased need for breeding programmes for species recovery.

Obtaining high-quality species interaction data is essential for understanding broad ecological processes. However, collecting these data at large spatiotemporal scales is often an expensive and labour-intensive process. Long-term accumulated observations by multiple people or devices across different localities — referred to as regional ecological knowledge (REK) — are a valuable source of indirect

Haplodiploidy is a sex determination system with haploid males and diploid females. Because deleterious genetic variants can be masked in diploids by partial or complete dominance, purifying selection is expected to operate more strongly in haploid males than diploid females. Writing in Molecular Ecology, Miller and Sheehan test this long-standing hypothesis about differential selection between the

Reconnection: Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature Miles RichardsonPELAGIC PUBLISHING: 2023. 280 PP. £20

replying to R. S. Chen et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02152-3 (2023)

Mutualisms are enormously impactful in ecological and evolutionary terms, and are often appealing to people because of their positive, uplifting nature. It has long been speculated that honeyguide birds cooperate mutualistically with honey badgers to guide them to bees’ nests. Honeyguides eat wax and are known to guide people in parts of Africa to find bees’ nests for harvest, providing these honey-hunters

Timing the arrival of humans in South America remains a hotly contested topic. The earliest accepted dates are those for Monte Verde II in Chile, around 14.5 thousand years ago (kya), but numerous sites in the northern part of South America hint at earlier but more ephemeral occupations — though these are debated. One such site is Santa Elina rock shelter in Central Brazil, where possible stone artefacts