Evolution : essays on aspects of evolutionary biology / presented to Professor E.S. Goodrich ; edited br G.R. De Beer
1938, First Edition. Oxford : Clarendon. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Pages tanned. Boards stain speckled. Remains particularly well preserved overall. Item #389985
Physical description: viii, 350 p. illus with frontsipiece. ports. Contents: Contains: Insect adaptation as evidence of evolution by natural selection by Sir Edward Poulton - The present standing of the theory of sexual selection by J.S. Huxley - The genetic basis of adaptation by E.B. Ford - Embryology and evolution by G.R. De Beer - The nature of interspecific differences by J.B.S./ Haldane - The formation of species. Mothods of studying the early stages of evolutionary divergence in animals by O,W. Richards - Human evolution and the control of its future by A.M. Carr-Saunders- Animal numbers and adaptation by Charles Elton - Change and choice: a study in pelagic ecology by A.C. Hardy - The evolution of breeding seasons by John R. Baker [et al.]. Subjects: Goodrich, Edwin Stephen 1868-. Goodrich, Edwin Stephen 1868-. Evolution.
Biology.
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