Inheritance and natural history.
London: Collins, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61. More
GENERAL - Evolution
Inheritance and natural history.
London: Bloomsbury Books, (1990. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, a very good copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61. More
The natural history of Shetland.
London: Collins, (1980. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, scarce. New Naturalist 64. More
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
Fossil men: elements of human palaeontology.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, (1923. second edition). Tall octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, a fine copy. 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
On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
Norwalk: The Eastern Press, 1976. Quarto, handsome text illustrations. Publisher's full gilt morocco, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, a fine copy. The text for this production was taken from the 1872 sixth edition. More
The voyage of the Beagle.
Danbury: Grolier Enterprises, 1980. Octavo, blindstamped rexine. More
The blind watchmaker.
Harlow: Longman Scientific & Technical, (1986. first edition), Octavo, illustrations, very good 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
Evolutionary theory: a hierarchical perspective.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Octavo, softcover. The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organisms, which are united into populations and..... More
How the zebra got its stripes: and other Darwinian just so stories.
London: Profile Books, 2016. Octavo, photographs, illustrations, maps, dustwrapper. Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? Why are buffalo herds broadly democratic while elephants prefer dictatorships? Deploying the latest scientific research and his own extensive observations on the African savannah, Leo Grasset offers some answers to..... 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
Of flies, mice, and men.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Octavo, softcover. Nobel Prize-winning genteticist Francois Jacob walks us through the surprising ways of science, particularly the science of biology, in this century. A work of history, a social study of the role of scientists in the modern world, and a cautionary tale of..... 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