Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. Bright colours, enlarged fins, feather plumes, song, horns, antlers and tusks are often highly sex dimorphic. Why have males in many species of animals evolved more conspicuous ornaments, signals and weapons than females? How can such traits evolve although they..... More
Cheltenham: The History Press, 2023. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. This book is about evolution, but not its greatest hits. Consider that an elephant will not grow a seventh set of teeth, even though wearing down the sixth will condemn it to starvation; that male mandarin ducks sport bright-orange..... More
New York: Norton, 2002. Octavo, photographs. Approach this book with caution. There are many scientists who strongly disagree with the author's central premise that the case for melanistic selection in Peppered Moths is overstated. This book may not be a credible reference on the subject. Alarmingly the author is quoted..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Octavo, graphs, signature, softcover. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Octavo, black and white photographs, illustrations, dustwrapper. In this book evolutionary biologist Gordon Orians discusses how many of our human responses to nature are steeped in our deep evolutionary past - we fear snakes because of the danger of venom or constriction, and..... 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
Princeton NJ: 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
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Octavo, softcover. This volume focuses on three issues of debate in Darwin's theory of evolution - the nature of selection, the nature and scope of adaptation, and the question of evolutionary progress. More
London: Hutchinson and Co., 1958. Octavo, chipped dustwrapper. More