An Encyclopaedia of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California 2004. Why We Do It: Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene. W.W. Norton, New York 2005. Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life. W.W. Norton, New York 2014. Extinction and evolution : what fossils reveal about the history of life, ; Firefly Books, Toronto 2014. Concrete Jungle. New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future. University of California Press, Oakland. 2015. Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond. Columbia University Press, New York, New York. 2016. With T. Pievani, E. Serrelli, and I. Tëmkin (eds.). Evolutionary Theory. A Hierarchical Perspective. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Personal life Eldredge enjoys playing jazz trumpet and is an avid collector of 19th century cornets; he has more than 500 in his home in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Eldredge possesses a chart of the historical development of cornets (the musical instruments), which he uses as a comparison with that of the development of trilobites. The differences between them are meant to highlight the failures of intelligent design by comparing a system that is definitely designed, with a system that is not designed. Political activism In January 2017, Eldredge became an 'Initiator' for the Refuse Fascism movement launched in the United States just months after the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. The movement was an effort to deny Barack Obama's successor - Donald Trump - from taking office on Inauguration Day (January 20, 2017) The group's aim was to 'stop the Trump-Pence regime before it starts.' References 1943 births Living people Evolutionary biologists Extended evolutionary synthesis Human evolution theorists American paleontologists Columbia College (New York) alumni Critics of creationism People from Brooklyn People from Ridgewood, New Jersey People associated with the American Museum of Natural History Punctuated equilibrium Scientists from New York City Scientists from New Jersey