Inheritance and natural history.
London: Collins, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist number 61. More
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
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Small octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. In this entertaining and illuminating book, the biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals (including humans). 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
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Quarto, paperback, text illustrations. Sex ratios: concepts and research methods provides both context to and instruction on many aspects of research on sex ratios. Unlike other books on the topic, it covers both how to carry out research on sex ratios and why such research..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Octavo, black and white illustrations, dustwrapper. For evolutionary biologists, the concept of chance has always played a significant role in the formation of evolutionary theory. Emphasizing chance is an entire way of thinking about nature, and it is also one of the key ideas..... 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
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
Cromer: Auscipub, 2006. Quarto, colour plates, laminated boards. A comprehensive overview of vertebrate diversity within Australasia, together with discussion of the factors that influenced the evolution and distributions of the faunas we see today. By considering the major forces shaping extant vertebrate assemblages, using new techniques and strategies, we can..... More
Cromer: Auscipub, 2006. Quarto, colour plates, laminated boards, slightly damaged spine. A comprehensive overview of vertebrate diversity within Australasia, together with discussion of the factors that influenced the evolution and distributions of the faunas we see today. By considering the major forces shaping extant vertebrate assemblages, using new techniques and..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Octavo, text illustrations, laminated boards. Evolutionary developmental biology, or 'evo-devo', is the study of the relationship between evolution and development. Dealing specifically with the generative mechanisms of organismal form, evo-devo goes straight to the core of the developmental origin of variation, the raw material on..... 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: 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
New York: Prentice Hall, 1993. Quarto, colour photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. Octavo, photographs, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: 1981. Octavo, owner's stamp, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940. Octavo, Publisher's cloth, labelled 'Author's copy' and author's inscription. John Christopher Willis (1868-1958) was an English botanist known for his Age and Area hypothesis (now very much out of favour) and criticism of natural selection; he was posthumously awarded the Darwin–Wallace Medal by the Linnean..... More
Reading: Perseus Books, 1998. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More