(Another wishlist book I want someone to write: a book on ordinary extinctions. Meaning, at this scale of evolutionary story, there's the occasional species or group of species that just dwindles and disappears while everything else is doing just fine. I have never really seen any popular science writing that really digs into that kind of extinction, whether to lay out the variety of cases or to theorize about extinction as a basic part of evolution. Most of the popular work on this theme concentrates on extinction events, whether it's the really big ones or some smaller-scale catastrophes or abrupt shifts in regional environmental conditions.)
(Another wishlist book I want someone to write: a book on ordinary extinctions. Meaning, at this scale of evolutionary story, there's the occasional species or group of species that just dwindles and disappears while everything else is doing just fine. I have never really seen any popular science writing that really digs into that kind of extinction, whether to lay out the variety of cases or to theorize about extinction as a basic part of evolution. Most of the popular work on this theme concentrates on extinction events, whether it's the really big ones or some smaller-scale catastrophes or abrupt shifts in regional environmental conditions.)