Butterfly and Angelfishes of the world, volume one: Australia.
Sydney: Reed, 1978. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Reed, 1978. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. More
Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, paperback, A collection of linked essays on the topic of biological evolution. The first half of the book explores most of the main theoretical controversies about evolution and selection, while the second half applies some of these ideas in considering cognitive evolution. Together, the essays..... More
London: B. and J. White, 1794. Quarto, engraved frontispiece. Quarter calf and speckled boards, a fine copy. More
London: Macmillan, 1979. Octavo, paperback, More
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2012. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1996. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2005. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. WAS $65. This natural history details the salmon's extraordinary life cycle and covers the latest scientific research on exactly where salmon travel to in the sea, what influences the numbers that return to the river, the impact of global warming on..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, tables, graphs. The 'adaptive landscape' has been a central concept in population genetics and evolutionary biology since it was first formulated by Sewall Wright in 1932. Eighty years later, it is considered a central framework in evolutionary quantitative..... More
London: Icon Books, 2017. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Darwin's theory of evolution was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of organisms was nowhere to be found. By the 1970s this absence of 'transitional fossils' was..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. This title looks at the social interactions within species and how they have evolved over time. Social behaviour is of constant fascination to biologists and psychologists of many disciplines. Guest articles from leaders in the field, present a truly..... More
Tokyo: Japan Scientific Societies Press, 1980. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, graphs, a fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
New York: Prentice Hall, 1993. Quarto, colour photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1987. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, line drawings. Are chimps almost human? Are we just smarter chimps? What does that oft-quoted 1.6% difference in DNA actually mean? As teams worldwide seek the genetic basis of our humanity, a complex picture is emerging. Small changes in..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Small quarto, illustrations, softcover. Describing and understanding the evolution of the diversity of bodyplans is a major goal of evolutionary biology. Taking a modern, integrated approach to this question, a group of leading researchers describe how modern techniques and disciplines have been combined, resulting in..... More
Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, (1965. English translation). Octavo, text illustrations, slightly chipped dustwrapper, inscription. More
London: Souvenir Press, 1968. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Coevolution - reciprocal evolutionary change in interacting species driven by natural selection - is one of the most important ecological and genetic processes organizing the earth's biodiversity: most plants and animals require coevolved interactions with other species to survive and reproduce..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. What sort of person was the young naturalist who developed an evolutionary idea so logical, so dangerous, that it has dominated biological science for a century and a half? How did the quiet and shy Charles Darwin produce..... More
Adelaide: University of Adelaide:, 1922. Octavo, folding plates, printed wrappers, some wear. from the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Quarto, laminated boards, line drawings. Describes the evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects, including their relationships with host plants and natural enemies. This book focuses on the dynamic relationships between insects and plants from the standpoint of evolutionary change at different levels of biological organization..... More
New York: Norton, 2001. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. More
London: Henry Kimpton, 1918. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, signatures and annotations throughout, publisher's cloth, scarce. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. Octavo, photographs, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Irvington: Columbia University Press, 2004. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, other illustrations. Linking the evidence of the past with that of the present, this exquisitely illustrated guide examines the evolution of the mammalian fauna of Africa within the context of dramatic changes over the course of more than 30 million years of..... More