Population, evolution and birth control: A collage of controversial ideas
Santa Barbara: The Author, (1969. second edition), Octavo, Slightly worn and yellowed dust wrapper. More
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The living stream: a restatement of evolution theory and its relation to the spirit of man.
London: Collins, 1965. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Sex ratio: concepts and research methods.
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
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The sea: ideas and observations on progress in the study of the seas [volumes one to five only].
New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1962-1971. Quarto, text illustrations, folding maps, very good set in dustwrappers. Volume 1: Physical Oceanography. Volume 2: The composition of sea-water. Comparative and descriptive oceanography. Volume 3: The earth beneath the sea. History. Volume 4: New concepts of sea floor evolution [two volumes]. More
Darwin's dice: the idea of chance in the thought of Charles Darwin.
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
Evolution and animal life: an elementary discussion of facts, processes, laws and theories relating to the life and evolution of animals.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1907. Octavo, photographs and text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth, bookplate of Roy Cooper. More
Annie's box: Charles Darwin, his daughter and human evolution.
London: Fourth Estate, 2001. Octavo, black and white photographs and illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Darwin's eldest daughter Annie died when she was only ten years old. In the writing case are keepsakes of her life that cast precious light on Darwin's work and on his love for his wife..... More
Human evolution: readings in physical anthropology.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. Octavo, paperback, diagrams. More
The cave home of Peking man.
Peking: Foreign Languages Press. 19751975. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, softcover. More
Genetics and the extinction of species: DNA and the conservation of biodiversity.
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
The story of Peking man: from archaeology to mystery.
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1990. Quarto, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More
Animals with novel genes.
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
Evolution and the diversity of life: selected essays.
Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1997. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Shapes of time: the evolution of growth and development.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Evolutionary trends.
London: Belhaven Press, 1990. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Evolution and biogeography of Australasian vertebrates.
Cromer: Auscipub, 2006. Quarto, colour plates, laminated boards. Was $230. 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..... More
Evolution and biogeography of Australasian vertebrates.
Oatlands, Auscipub, 2006. Quarto, text illustrations and 100 colour plates, softcover WAS $170. 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..... More
Darwin's universe: evolution from A to Z.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This alphabetically arranged reference, an immensely entertaining browser's delight, offers a dazzling overview of the life and thought of Charles Darwin and his incredibly wide sphere of influence. Authoritative and abundantly illustrated, it illuminates the ways in which..... More
The evolving world: evolution in everyday life.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, dustwrapper. Provides an account of how evolution has become a tool with applications that are thoroughly integrated, and deeply useful in our everyday lives and our societies. This book shows how evolutionary biology applies when we domesticate wild species for..... More
Evolving pathways: key themes in evolutionary developmental biology.
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
Forms of becoming: the evolutionary biology of development.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. What comes first, form or function? Trumpeted as the future of biological science, evolutionary developmental biology (or 'evo-devo') answers this question by showing how evolution controls the development of organisms. This book looks at the history and key issues of evo-devo..... More
On the genesis of species.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1871. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's blindstamped cloth, a crisp copy. First US edition. Mivart was friendly with Darwin and Huxley and a supporter of Darwinian evolution but the relationship soured with his conversion to Catholicism. He then became well known for his anti-Darwinist views..... More
Evolutionary biogeography: an integrative approach with case studies.
Irvington: Columbia University Press, 2008. Octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. Rather than favoring only one approach, Juan J. Morrone proposes a comprehensive treatment of the developments and theories of evolutionary biogeography. Evolutionary biogeography uses distributional, phylogenetic, molecular, and fossil data to assess the historical changes that have produced current biotic patterns..... More
Relics: travels in nature's time machine.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Both complex and easy to understand, this new title makes the reader aware of our planet's past that surrounds us. More
Time, the refreshing river (essays and addresses, 1932-1942).
London: George Allen and Unwin, [1944. reprint). Octavo, bookseller's stamp, lacks dustwrapper. More
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