The evolution of language.
New Jersey: World Scientific Publishing, 2014, Octavo, tect illustrations, owner's irritatingly large signature on two pages, laminated boards. More
New Jersey: World Scientific Publishing, 2014, Octavo, tect illustrations, owner's irritatingly large signature on two pages, laminated boards. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Octavo, colour photographs and black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating..... More
London: Academic Press, 1974. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Henry Holt, 1997. Octavo, line drawings, a very good copy dustwrapper. In "The Raptor and the Lamb", his sixth and finest book, Dr. Christopher McGowan takes the reader on a guided tour of predator-prey relationships from the very different but often overlapping worlds of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles..... More
London: Blake Publishing, 2015. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. Cole Porter raised the topic in his famous song from 1928, 'Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love', which prompted Bruce Montague to ask 'how?'. This book provides an amusing A - Z of the courtship and mating habits of animals. From..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Octavo, text illustrations, signature. 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
London: BBC Books, 1999. Small quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Sex in the natural world is aggressive, competitive and sometimes fatal. Every living creature has an overwhelming desire to breed but, fascinatingly, the genders are profoundly at odds concerning with whom they mate and the amount of effort..... More