Darwin's Fishes
Darwin's Fishes by Daniel Pauly is a 2004 Fiction & Literature book written by TED speaker Daniel Pauly, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "The ocean's shifting baseline" (2012), 300K views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 8 years before the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 1st of 2 books by Daniel Pauly on Books Worth Reading (2004–2014), by publication year.
- Edition: Cambridge University Press, 2004 · 366 pages
The paired TED talk
The ocean's shifting baseline (2012), the TED talk by Daniel Pauly.
From the publisher
In Darwin's Fishes, Daniel Pauly presents a unique encyclopedia of ichthyology, ecology, and evolution, based upon everything that Charles Darwin ever wrote about fish. Entries are arranged alphabetically and can be about, for example, a particular fish taxon, an anatomical part, a chemical substance, a scientist, a place, or an evolutionary or ecological concept. The reader can start wherever they like and are then led by a series of cross-references on a fascinating voyage of interconnected entries, each indirectly or directly connected with original writings from Darwin himself. Along the way, the reader is offered interpretation of the historical material put in the context of both Darwin's time and that of contemporary biology and ecology. This book is intended for anyone interested in fishes, the work of Charles Darwin, evolutionary biology and ecology, and natural history in general.