Numerical dating in stratigraphy.
Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1982. Octavo, text illustrations, very good set in dustwrapper. More
Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1982. Octavo, text illustrations, very good set in dustwrapper. More
Washington DC: Government Printer, 1876. Quarto, 13 plates, ex-library stamps, publisher's cloth. Report of the United States geological survey of the territories, volume ten. More
Ludlow: Merlin Unwin Books, (2014. reprint). Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. The collective nouns of animals and birds have long inspired and intrigued. Many have their roots in medieval times, in particular applied to those creatures hunted by man, and subject to the etiquette of their proper group names. Palin has..... More
Cambridge: Perseus Books, 2003. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 1998. Octavo, paperback, text figures. WAS $20. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 49. 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
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Quarto, laminated boards, maps, tables, graphs. New human disease pandemics arising from animals stimulated by ongoing environmental change, demonstrate the value of ornithological research into avian diseases. A group of 29 researchers address a diverse set of topics, including the evolutionary and ecological aspects..... More
Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1967. Octavo, 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
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. Explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the elements of theories - selection, adaptation, and species - that are comples and open to multiple possible interpretatins, many of which are incompatible with one another and with other accepted practices in the..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1909. Octavo, inscribed by the author, publisher's cloth. More
Lawrence: Association of Systematics Collections, 1984. Octavo, softcover. More
Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2009. Octavo, softcover. Natural selection is commonly interpreted as the fundamental mechanism of evolution. Questions about how selection theory can claim to be the all-sufficient explanation of evolution often go unanswered by today's neo-Darwinists, perhaps for fear that any criticism of the evolutionary paradigm will encourage..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Large octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, maps, graphs, tables. Declining bird populations have prompted extensive research on nest failure and reduced reproductive success. Until recently, this research has been hampered by the difficulties inherent in observing nest activities. This book highlights the..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, text illustrations. Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk the earth, and they represent a substantial portion of vertebrate biomass and biodiversity during the Mesozoic Era. The story of sauropod evolution is told in an extensive..... 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
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1977. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, This fascinating collection of essays exposes us as the animals that we are while explaining behaviours that are deeply and recognizably human. The first section, 'Our Genes and Who We Are', focuses on our genetic endowment and the forces it creates in our lives..... More
New York: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 1965. Small quarto, black and white photographs, very good in wrappers. More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1985. third edition), Octavo, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1976. Octavo, photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More