Inheritance and natural history.
London: Bloomsbury Books, (1990. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61. More
GENERAL - Evolution
Body heat: temperature and life on earth.
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
Hominoid evolution and climatic change in Europe, volume two: phylogeny of the Neogene hominoid primates of Eurasia.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This volume explores hominoid evolution in Eurasia during the Miocene. What is the place of Europe in the origin of humankind? Whilst our earliest human ancestors may have come out of Africa, many of our more... More
The skeletal biology of earlier human populations.
London: Pergamon Press, 1968. Octavo, text illustrations, signature. More
The making of the fittest: DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution.
London: Quercus, 2008. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. DNA evidence not only solves crimes - if you know how to read it, it can also reveal the history of life on earth. This fast-paced book guides the general reader on a tour of the DNA record left by three billion years of... More
The lopsided ape.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Octavo, graphs, owner's signature, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
The evolution of man and society.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969. Octavo, dustwrapper. More
The sciences were never at war.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1960. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Analysis of evolutionary processes: the adaptive dynamics approach and its applications.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. Quantitative approaches to evolutionary biology traditionally consider evolutionary change in isolation from an important pressure in natural selection: the demography of coevolving populations. In this book, Fabio Dercole and Sergio Rinaldi have written the first comprehensive book on Adaptive Dynamics... More
Dear Mr. Darwin: letters on the evolution of life and human nature.
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
Human origins.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Octavo, photographs, signature, publisher's cloth. More
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
The living stream: a restatement of evolution theory and its relation to the spirit of man.
London: Collins, 1965. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. 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
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
The forum series: concerning man's origin.
London: Watts & Co, 1927. Small octavo, wrappers. 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
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
The growth of biological thought: diversity, evolution, and inheritance.
Cambridge MA: Belknap Press, 1982. Octavo, chipped dustwrapper. More
Shapes of time: the evolution of growth and development.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Octavo, illustrations, signature, 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