from The Textbook Letter, March-April 1998  Reviewing a high-
school book in biology  BSCS Biology: An Ecological Approach
1998. 774 pages. ISBN of the student's edition: 0-8403-9659-7.
Copyrighted by Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (Colorado
Springs, Colorado). Published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing
Company, 4050 Westmark Drive, Dubuque, Iowa 52004.  Editor's
Introduction -- Kendall/Hunt's BSCS Biology: An Ecological
Approach is the eighth edition of the book that is commonly
called the BSCS Green Version, or simply "the BSCS Green."
Earlier editions, the most recent of which was dated in 1992,
carried the title Biological Science: An Ecological Approach.
Two reviews of the 1992 edition appeared in The Textbook Letter,
July-August 1992.  All in all, the eighth edition closely
resembles the seventh -- and as you will read in the reviews
below, it contains factual errors and other defects that were
present in the seventh edition and that haven't been corrected.
The innovations in the eighth edition appear t