A key work on evolution, based on snails in Hawaii. Gulick coined the term divergent evolution to describe the formation of new species due to geographical separation. The entire issue of this journal is devoted to Gulick's essay. A very good copy in the original wrappers. With a one-inch closed.....
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First Edition. A Russian work on the evolution of the amphibian skull, translated into English in 2004 and published in the series, Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union. 283 pages. Text in Russian (Cyrillic). First edition. A very good or better copy in the original printed cloth-covered.....
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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.....
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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.....
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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.....
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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).
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First Edition. 18 papers. 424 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover (no jacket, probably as issued). Stamped "review copy" at the front.
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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.....
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First Edition. 108 pages. Monographs in Population Biology, no. 9. First edition (first printing, hardcover issue). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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First Edition. 297 pages. Extensively illustrated. First edition (first printing). Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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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.....
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