Oatlands, Auscipub, 2006. Quarto, text illustrations and 100 colour plates, paperback. 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
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
London: George Allen and Unwin, [1944. reprint). Octavo, bookseller's stamp, lacks dustwrapper. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Octavo, paperback, diagrams. Developed after a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute on extinction modeling, this book comments critically on the various modeling approaches. In the last decade or so, scientists have started to examine a new approach to the patterns of evolution and extinction..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Octavo, fine copy diagrams, fine copy in dustwrapper. More than 99% of all life that has ever existed on this planet is extinct. Moreover, human acceleration of the extinction of species has created a crisis in biodiversity. How can the history of past life..... More
Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1993. Octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. Examines the process of evolutionary "branching" by which new species are produced. This collection of Paterson's writings on speciation and how it occurs suggest that it is not an adaptive process but a passive consequence of the..... More
New York: Cornell University Press, (1999. second edition]. Octavo, paperback, line drawings, graphs. Introducing the latest ideas on how life originated and diversified on earth, this new edition of a classic work provides a concise and engaging summary of modern evolutionary theory. The heavily illustrated book is intended for readers..... More
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1978. Octavo, illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More
London: Hutchinson, 1996. Octavo, maps, signature, dustwrapper. More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. Octavo, photogrpahs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1976. Octavo, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995. Octavo, black and white photographs, line drawings, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, (1891. second edition), Octavo, Publisher's cloth, fine copy, scarce in this condition. August Weismann (1834-1914) was a signficant fugure in developing Darwinian evolutionary biology. He laid the foundations for germ plasm theory and realised that inheritance can only happen through haploid cells (egg and..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Octavo, publisher's cloth, text illustrations, other illustrations. More