In the blink of an eye: the cause of the most dramatic event in the history of life.
Cambridge: Perseus Books, 2003. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Cambridge: Perseus Books, 2003. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
United States: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Octavo, graphs, dustwrapper. More
Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1993. Octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. Examines the process of evolutionary "branching" by which new species are produced. This collection of Paterson's writings on speciation and how it occurs suggest that it is not an adaptive process but a passive consequence of the..... More
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1978. Octavo, illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More
Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1967. Octavo, More
England: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1927. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. The corridors of time series. More
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. First published in 1939, this beautifully imaginative book is a classic of nature writing. Tracing the evolution of plant life from the appearance of the earliest micro-organisms to the rise of the modern floras, the book is part natural..... More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2010. Octavo, colour photographs, distribution maps, tables, Entirely devoted to semantic mark up of taxonomic literature and its implementation for semantic enhancements of published texts and their importance for increased convenience in reading, archiving, future data mining and reuse. Several novelties are described in the two forum papers..... More
Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1940-1987. Octavo, publisher's cloth binding, some minor wear. Lacks volumes three and six, volume one is the second edition and some other volumes are reprints. More
Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Company, (1967. fourth edition). Octavo, text illustrations, checklists in pocket at back, laminated boards. More
London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1909. Octavo, inscribed by the author, publisher's cloth. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: AtlasBooks, 2006. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. Traces the twenty-one-year period between Charles Darwin's original idea about natural selection and the publication of "On the Origin of Species," in an account that offers insight into his experiences as a cautious naturalist. More
Lawrence: Association of Systematics Collections, 1984. Octavo, softcover. More
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 1987. Octavo, paperback, line drawings. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 41. More
New York: Doubleday, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper. The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beast, the gorilla, only to stumble straight into the centre of the biggest debate of the day: Darwin's theory of evolution..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Octavo, laminated boards, photographs. Remainder mark on bottom edge, bumped corners. Written for graduate students and academic researchers, this book provides a critical examination of current knowledge and ideas on cave biology, with emphasis on evolution, ecology, and conservation. Aldemaro Romero provides a historical analysis..... More
West Sussex: Princeton University Press, 1998. Quarto, fine copy in dustwrapper. Extending the human life-span past 120 years. The "green" revolution. Evolution and human psychology. These subjects make newspaper headlines. Yet much of the science underlying these topics stems from a book published nearly 140 years ago - Charles Darwin's..... More
London: Longmans, 1961. Octavo, slightly chipped dustwrapper, inscription. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Octavo, tables, fine copy in dustwrapper. Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a 'selfish gene' create universal sexual conflict? This title intends to reject these and other ideas that have come to dominate the..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback. Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a 'selfish gene' create universal sexual conflict? This title intends to reject these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution..... More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1977. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1999. second edition). Octavo, paperback, illustrations. "No other account of the Darwinian Revolution provides so detailed and sympathetic an account of the framework within which the scientific debates took place." Peter J. Bowler, Canadian Journal of History. Also available in hardcover [stock id 27289]... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. Using the sometimes vicious academic debates and the powerful personalities of scientists as background, Schilthuizen explores the meandering path of species research and sets it out in the clearest possible terms. From looking at how we define a species, to exploring..... More
New York: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 1965. Small quarto, black and white photographs, very good in wrappers. More