First Edition. The paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History explains evolutionary theory for a non-scientific audience. 199 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a couple of tears to the top edge. This is a scientific association.....
Price: $850
First Edition. A widely-cited exploration of the sociological and cultural factors driving the development of the Modern Synthesis view of evolution in the middle years of the 20th century. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to the paleontologist and evolutionary.....
Price: $300
First Edition. A synthesis of three decades of study and writing about evolutionary theory. Gould, ever the historian of science, traces the development of evolution in order to make his case that biologists put too much emphasis on the "design" embodied in natural selection and too little on random chance. Gould.....
Price: $150
Later printing. Stephen Jay Gould's influential first book, which is now seen as a key foundation for the evo-devo field of evolutionary theory. 501 pages. Third printing (1978). Spine slightly faded, else a near fine copy in a like dust jacket. This copy belonged to Stephen Jay Gould (he seems to.....
Price: $75
First Edition. "Adaptive radiation—the rise of a diversity of ecological roles and attendant adaptations within a lineage—is one of the most important processes bridging ecology and evolution"—the back cover. Twenty-one essays. xvii, 621 pages. First edition. A near fine copy (minor bumping to the corners) in illustrated boards. This copy is.....
Price: $100
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First Edition. A follow-up work on Plesianthropus transvaalensis (now classified as Australopithecus africanus), including the famous "Mrs. Ples" skull, by the men who discovered them in 1936. The book includes two separate papers published as Transvaal Museum Memoir No. 4. Part I: Further Evidence of the Structure of the Sterkfontein.....
Price: $250
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First Edition. Six volumes of the Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series in which Darwin's notebook is transcribed, with one volume of corrigenda and another on the pages removed by Darwin. All volumes very good or better in stapled wrappers (pamphlet form).
Price: $60
First Edition. 18 papers. 424 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover (no jacket, probably as issued). Stamped "review copy" at the front.
Price: $100
First Edition. Russell's last work, submitted for publication before his death but not published until eight years after. Unlike his earlier and influential books on evolution, this one has attracted relatively little attention, "despite both its technical discussion of adaptations in decapods (crabs, shrimp, etc.) and its different approach to.....
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First Edition. "With examples selected from the reproductive, alimentary, respiratory, circulatory, nervous, muscular, osseous, locomotory, and other systems of animals... Illustrated by nearly two thousand figures, largely original and from nature." In this massive posthumous work, Pettigrew documents animal growth and motion in considerable detail with two goals in mind.....
Price: $400
First Edition. 108 pages. Monographs in Population Biology, no. 9. First edition (first printing, hardcover issue). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $15
First Edition. 297 pages. Extensively illustrated. First edition (first printing). Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75
First Edition. 42 pages, plus 8 plates. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. Article I of The Bashford Dean Memorial Volume: Archaic Fishes. A memorial volume on Dean, who was an expert on fish and evolution, and a noted collector of armor. With a bibliography of Dean's 315 publications. First edition, first.....
Price: $20
First Edition. A history of biology and heredity by one of the winners of the 1965 winners of the Nobel Prize for medicine. 348 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to the evolutionary paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, "Pour Steve Gould.....
Price: $500
