Inheritance and natural history.
London: Collins, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist number 61. More
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London: Collins, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist number 61. More
London: Collins, (1980. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, scarce. New Naturalist 64. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. From two-legged goats and double-headed snakes, to 'Cyclops' infants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead, Mark S. Blumberg looks at 'freak' bodily anomalies in both humans and other animals to reveal how..... More
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 1987. Octavo, laminated boards, line drawings. More
New Jersey: World Scientific Publishing, 2014, Octavo, tect illustrations, owner's irritatingly large signature on two pages, laminated boards. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, graphs, tables. Although the field of quantitative genetics - the study of the genetic basis of variation in quantitative characteristics such as body size, or reproductive success - is almost 100 years old, its application to the study of evolutionary processes in wild..... More
Washington DC: Carnegie Institute, 1957. Octavo, wrappers, text illustrations, signature, cover a lttle grubby. With an appendix containing a series of experiments to be conducted by the beginning students. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. The imagined two-way correspondence between the author, Dover, and Darwin about the surprising findings of modern genetics and the evolution of biological novelties, from genes to organisms, is both erudite and entertaining. In the process, Dover presents a startingly original..... More
London: Orion Publishing, 2000. Octavo, paperback, line drawings. 'Dear Mr Darwin - You might find it presumptuous of me, if not a little macabre, that I should take up my pen and write to you more than a hundred years after your death...Despite the gulf that separates us in time..... More
London: Methuen and Company, (1975. fourth edition). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Edward Arnold, (1979. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. Studies in biology, number 69. More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, (2002. reprint). Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Turning to modern concepts, Gould demonstrates that, even though the whole subject of parallels between ontogeny and phylogeny fell into disrepute, it is still one of the great themes of evolutionary biology. More
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987. Octavo, diagrams, very good in dustwrapper. More
[No place of publication]: The Rockefeller Foundation, 1979. Quarto, wrappers, text illustrations, signature. Working papers from the Rockefeller Foundation Conference, March 31- April 5, 1978, Bellagio, Italy. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Large octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. James L. Patton served as Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and as Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1969 until 2001. This book aims to bring..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Octavo, softcover. The volume covers such topics as the reasons for extinctions, the best ways to measure biodiversity, and the benefits and drawbacks of policies like captive breeding. More
London: John Wiley and Sons, 2013. Quarto, paperback, illustrations. This book is the first to approach the fast developing field of wildlife forensics with a focus on the application of DNA profiling and analysis. Case studies throughout link theory and practice and highlight the use of DNA testing in species..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Octavo, laminated boards, This comprehensive and authoritative book is ideal for advanced undergraduates and graduate students wishing to familiarize themselves with the field of transgenic animals. This book is about transgenic animals--animals into which new genes have been artificially introduced. It has chapters by leading..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1971. Octavo, graphs, signature, dustwrapper. More
London: Hutchinson and Co., 1958. Octavo, chipped dustwrapper. 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
Oxon: Routledge, 2013. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, line drawings. DNA Barcoding has been promoted since 2003 as a new, fast, digital genomics-based means of identifying natural species based on the idea that a small standard fragment of any organism's genome (a so-called 'micro-genome') can faithfully identify and..... More
New York: 1981. Octavo, owner's stamp, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. More
London: A & C Black, 1916. Octavo, very good copy in publisher's cloth. More