This book, published by Academic Press (1996), provides more information about the Great White than all, but the most obsessed, would want or need. It is the broad scope of this work that draws out that comment. I would like more on evolution (the Carcharocles argument is not presented) but this is a soup-to-nuts publication. Some 45 chapters, combining the talents of 67 authors, are included in eight parts: I Introduction (Chapters 1 & 2), II Evolution (3 - 8), III Anatomy (9 -10), IV Physiology (11 - 15), V Behavior (16 - 23), VI Ecology and Distribution (24 - 32), VII Population Biology (33 - 38) and VIII Interactions with Humans (39 - 45). The bibliography alone spans 20 pages.

Within the Evolution section, the chapters include:

• Chapter 3.   Hubbell, Gordon. Using tooth structure to determine the evolutionary history of the White Shark. pp. 9-18.
   
• Chapter 4.   Applegate, Shelton P., Espinosa-Arrubarrena, Luis.   The fossil history of Carcharodon and its possible ancestor, Cretolamna: a study in tooth identification. pp. 19-36.
   
• Chapter 5.   Long, Douglas J. & Waggoner, Benjamin M.   Evolutionary relationships of the White Shark: A phyliogeny of Lamniform sharks based on dental morphology. pp 37 - 47.
   
• Chapter 6.   Martin, Andrew P.   Systematics of the Laminidae and the origination time of Carcharodon carcharias inferred from the comparative analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences.
   
• Chapter 7.   Gottfried, Michael D., Compagno, Leonard J. V., and Bowman, S. Curtis. 1996.   Size and skeletal anatomy of the giant "Megatooth" shark Carcharodon megalodon pp. 55-66.
   
• Chapter 8.   Purdy, Robert W. 1996.   Paleoecology of fossil white sharks. pp. 67-78.

Wihin these pages, chapters 3, 4, 7 & 8 all clearly come out in favor of the retention of the genus Carcharodon for the over-sized great whites that inhabited the Miocene and Pliocene seas The below bookcover is linked to Academic Press for more details.