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Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology

By: Cairns, John, Stent, Gunther S. and Watson, James D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory of Quantitative Biology: 1966

Seller ID: 873

1966 - 60TH BIRTHDAY FESTSCHRIFT FOR MAX DELBRUCK WITH ESSAYS BY THE LUMINARIES OF EARLY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 10 inches tall hardcover, charcoal coth covers, red cloth spine with gilt title, previous owner name to front paste-down and flyleaf, frontis portrait of Max Delbruck, x, 340 pp, Contributors include: Anderson, T.F., Beadle, G.W., Benzer, S., Cairns, J., Delbruck, M., Doermann, A.H., Dulbecco, R., Edgar, R.S., Ellis, E.L., Hayes, W., Hershey, A.D., Hotchkiss, R.D., Jerne, N.K., Kaiser, A.D., Kalckar, H.M., Kellenberger, E., Kozloff, L.M., Luria, S.E., Lwoff, A., Maaloe, O., Meselson, M.,...
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The Serengeti Rules. The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why it Matters

By: Carroll, S.B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press: 2016

Seller ID: 520

A PERSUASIVE PLEA FOR RECOGNITION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF ECOLOGY BY A LEADER IN EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, lime green paper covered boards, charcoal paper covered spine, gilt title, 263 pp, illustrations, fine in fine dust jacket. REVIEWED in Nature 3 March 2016: Can biology become as predictive as the physical sciences? And could it guide us in feeding the planet and reversing ecosystem degradation, climate change and species extinction? These are the overarching questions that organize evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll's The Serengeti Ru!es, a compelling...
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The Evolution of Genetic Systems

By: Darlington, C.D.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books, Inc.: 1958

Seller ID: 509

AN EARLY PRODUCT OF THE MODERN SYNTHESIS: THE INTERACTION OF HEREDITY AND EVOLUTION. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, decorative color endpapers depicting chromosome crossover, very good in good dust jacket with edge tears, in mylar protective cover. CYRIL DEAN DARLINGTON (1903 - 1981) was an English biologist, geneticist and eugenicist, who discovered the mechanics of chromosomal crossover, its role in inheritance, and therefore its importance to evolution. He was Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford from 1953 to 1971. In his later y...
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Inheritance in Poultry

By: Davenport, Charles B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Carnegie Institution: 1906

Seller ID: 675

1906 ILLUSTRATED STUDY OF THE INHERITANCE OF CHARACTERISTICS IN CHICKENS BY THE LEADER OF AMERICAN EUGENICS. 10 inches tall volume, printed paper covers, 17 plates and a few text-figures. pp. v, 136, stiff wrappers, front cover chipped. repaired tear and archival tape joining cover to spine, a small paper label & an ink number to spine; upper corner of a few preliminary leaves curled; library handstamp to front endpaper indicating withdrawl from institutional library, binding tight, text and plates crisp and unmarked. CHARLES BENEDICT DAVENPORT (1866 â€“ 1944) was a prominent American bio...
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Vertebrate Zoology. An Introduction to the Comparative Anatomy, Embryology, and Evolution of Chordate Animals, with an introduction by Julian S. Huxley

By: de Beer, G. R. and Huxley, Julian S.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co.: 1928

Seller ID: 910

1928 FIRST EDITION LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY BRINGS TOGETHER ANATOMY, EMBRYOLOGY, GENETICS AND EVOLUTION. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, physician previous owner bookplate to front paste-down, bookseller's label (Old Corner Bookstore, Boston Mass) front flyleaf, xx, 505 pp, 185 illustrations in the text; front cover corner bumped, light foxing to first and last pages, gilt spine bright, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good. SIR GAVIN R. DE BEER (1899 - 1972) was a British evolutionary embry...
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Streams of Culture

By: de Beer, Gavin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, J.B. Lippincott Co.: 1969

Seller ID: 498

WIDE-RANGING ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY BY EMINENT 20TH CENTURY EVOLUTIONIST. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt red label to spine, 237 pp, very good in good+ price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear. GAVIN DE BEER (1899 - 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, known for his work on heterochrony as recorded in his 1930 book Embryos and Ancestors. He was director of the Natural History Museum, London, president of the Linnean Society of London, and a winner of the Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his studies on evolution.
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Cystic Diseases of the Kidney

By: Gardner, Kenneth D. Jr.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons: 1976

Seller ID: 934

FIRST PRINTING OF AN EARLY TEXT ON CYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE, LONG BEFORE ITS TRANSFORMATION BY GENOMICS. 10 1/2 inches tall color printed hardcover, institutional handstamp to front flyleaf, ix, 255 pp, many figures, light wear to spine ends, tape residue to back paste-down, very good. KENNETH D. GARDNER, JR. (born 1929) was a nephrologist and dean at the University of New Mexico.
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The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination

By: Goldschmidt, Richard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London and New York, Methuen & Co., Ltd., George H. Doran Co.: 1923

Seller ID: 565

1923 MONOGRAPH BY BRILLIANT GENETICIST AT THE TIME OF FORMULATION OF THE MODERN SYNTHESIS OF GENETICS AND EVOLUTION. 10 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, physician's bookplate to front paste-down, viii, 259 pp, over 100 figures (including fold-out plates). Covers lightly soiled, corners and spine ends bumped, endpapers darkened, page margins darkened, unmarked. Very good-. REVIEW BY JULIAN HUXLEY IN NATURE [Vol. 112, pp 927-930, 29 Dec. 1923] "The earlier rigid belief that sex-determination was entirely a matter of the chromosome-constitution must the...
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Mark Anniversary Volume to Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Zoological Laboratory at Harvard University in Celebration of Twenty-five Years of Successful Work for the Advancement of Zoology from his former Students 1877-1902

By: Goto, S., Pratt, H.S., Locy, W.A., Reighard, J., Kofoid, C.A., Davenport, C.B., Davenport, G.C., Bancroft, F.W., Eigenmann, C.H., Johnson, H.P., Linville, H.R., Ritter, W.E., Strong, R.M., Eastman, C.R., Neal, H.V., Jennings, H.S., Floyd, R., Yerkes, R.M

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Co.: 1903

Seller ID: 906

1903 SCARCE FESTSCHRIFT WITH 25 ORIGINAL PAPERS ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES IN HONOR OF EDWARD LAURENS MARK, DIRECTOR OF HARVARD'S ZOOLOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 12 inches tall, 2 1/2 inches thick hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, frontis photogravure portrait of Mark with tissue guard, perforated library stamp to title page, xiii, 513 pp, 36 plates,some in color. Covers soiled, small paper library label bottom of spine, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good. Large format festschrift in honor of Edward Laurens Mark (1847 ...
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Divergent Evolution Through Cumulative Segregation

By: Gulick, John T.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution: 1892

Seller ID: 437

1891 FIRST DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS EVOLUTIONARY GENETIC DRIFT. 8 1/2 inches tall paper extracted from Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year 1891, pages 269-336 (68 pages) in archival mylar binder. Read December 15, 1887. from the Journal of Zoology of the Linnean Society, September 1888, Vol. XX, pp. 189-274. JOHN THOMAS GULICK (1832 - 1923) was an American missionary and naturalist from Hawaii. He performed some of the first modern evolutionary studies, starting with a collection of Hawaiian land snails. In 1872, Gulick was the first to propose the theory that ...
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Evolution: The Modern Synthesis

By: Huxley, Julian

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York and London, Harper and Brothers: 1942

Seller ID: 435

PIVOTAL FORMULATION OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT BEFORE THE DISCOVERY OF DNA. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, beige cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 645 pages. Corners bumped, residue of library label bottom of spine, library handstamp verso of title page, library pocket back endpaper, text pages clean and unmarked, no jacket, in custom archival mylar cover. Good+. SIR JULIAN HUXLEY (1887- 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. He was...
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The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics

By: Kammerer P;

Price: $90.00

Publisher: New York, Boni and Liveright: 1924

Seller ID: 228

1924 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION ACCOUNT OF EXPERIMENTS IN EPIGENETICS BY PAUL KAMMERER, 'ENIGMATIC AND TRAGIC FIGURE IN THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY'. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, original red blindstamped cloth binding, gilt title to spine, deckled edges. 414 pages, 43 illustrations, including color and folding plates. DEDICATION: 'To Dr. Ernest W. MacBride, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S. Professor, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London; the Highly Meritorious Disciple of the Doctrine that Acquired Characteristics are hereditary , and an Indefatigable Champion of the Truth, With an Expression of the ...
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Refiguring Life. Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology

By: Keller, Evelyn Fox

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1995

Seller ID: 526

A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND ITS RELATION TO SOCIETY. 7 3/4 inches hardcover, green paper-covered boards, black cloth spine 134 pp, very good in very good dust jacket. FROM JACKET: Refiguring Life begins with the history of genetics and embryology, showing how discipline-based metaphors have directed scientists' search for evidence. Keller continues with an exploration of the border traffic between biology and physics, focusing on the question of life and the law of increasing entropy. In a final section she traces the impact of new metaphors, born of the computer revolution...
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Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution

By: Lock, Robert Heath

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1906

Seller ID: 448

1906 FIRST PRINTING OF LANDMARK BOOK LAUNCHING THE MODERN SYNTHESIS OF EVOLUTION AND GENETICS. 8 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, xv, 299, [4]pp ads., frontis portrait of Darwin with tissue guard, portraits of Galton, de Vries, Kolreuter, and Mendel; 47 figures in text. Corners bumped, spine darkened with a little wear at head and tail, endpapers and text edges browned, scattered light marginal pencil notations, very good-. From the Preface: For the group of subjects of which I intended to give I brief account Mr. W. Bateson has recently propo...
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The Science of Biology Today

By: Lysenko T

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, International Publishers: 1948

Seller ID: 15

1948--FIRST EDITION--TEACHINGS OF NOTORIOUS DIRECTOR OF THE SOVIET ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES UNDER STALIN'S RULE. 8 inch tall thin paperbound book, color printed cover, text stapled 62 pages, unmarked, and very good. Back of book lists other titles available from International Publishers, including addresses by Joseph Stalin.The last sentence of the book: 'Glory to the great friend and protagonist of science, our leader and teacher, Comrade Stalin'! CONTENTS: Biology, the basis of agronomy; The history of biology: a history of ideological controvery; Two worlds--two ideologies in biolog...
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The Scientific Basis of Evolution

By: Morgan, Thomas Hunt

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton and Co., Inc.: 1932

Seller ID: 450

1932 LECTURES ON EVOLUTION BY T. H. MORGAN, NOBEL LAUREATE IN 1933. 8 1/4 inches tall red buckram binding, gilt title to spine, new endpapers, perforated library stamp to title page, 286 pp., numerous text figures, binding tight, pages unmarked except marginal tics in list of references. Good+ in custom archival mylar cover. Cited in Gilbert & Epel 2009: Thomas Hunt Morgan, renounced embryology and wrote an article entitled The Rise of Genetics and a book entitled The Scientific Basis of Evolution in which he contrasted the new genetics with the old-fashioned embryology. â€¦ Moreover, Morg...
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What is Darwinism?

By: Morgan, Thomas Hunt

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton: 1929

Seller ID: 488

1929 SCARCE LITTLE BOOK ON DARWINISM BY NOBEL LAUREATE T. H. MORGAN, A KEY FIGURE IN THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 6 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding with red printed logo to cover, red printed title to spine, 78 pp, publisher's advertisement. Spine sunned, bottom end of spine frayed, tiny hole punched in corner of back endpaper, all pages crisp and unmarked, very good, no dust jacket, in custom archival mylar cover. THOMAS HUNT MORGAN (1866 - 1945) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology o...
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Neanderthal Man. In Search of Lost Genomes

By: Paabo, Svante

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books: 2014

Seller ID: 514

GENOMICS OF OUR CLOSE RELATIVES, THE NEANDERTHALS, BY LEADING EVOLUTIONIST. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan paper-covered boards, blue paper-covered spine, gilt title, 275 pp, illustrated, fine in fine dust jacket. REVIEWED BY HENRY GEE in Nature 6 Feb 2014: The study of human origins and evolution currently stands on a cusp. For decades we have had to make do with bones and stones, thin gruel from which to craft a narrative. Now we can extract DNA from fossils. Not just in bits and pieces, each as enigmatic as a broken tooth or a chipped stone flake, but entire genomes. Unlike fossils, genom...
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Origin and Evolution of Man 1950 Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Volume XV.

By: Simpson, G.G., Mayr, E., Coon, C.S., Montagu, M.F.A. and Dobzhansky, T.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor, NY, The Biological Laboratory: 1951

Seller ID: 470

FIRST COLD SPRING HARBOR SYMPOSIUM TO CONSIDER THE MODERN SYNTHESIS OF GENETICS AND HUMAN EVOLUTION. 11 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, spine faded, corners bumped and worn, spine dulled, ends frayed, hinges starting, prev. owner signature with overlying label to front endpaper, occasional light marginal tics, good+. FOREWORD The two main groups brought together by this year's program were geneticists and anthropologists, both of which study the evolution of man. The ultimate purpose of science, perhaps, is to assist man in understanding himself and his place in the unive...
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Studies in Spermatogenesis, Part II: a comparative study of the heterochromosomes in cerain species of coleoptera, hemiptera and lepidoptera, with especial reference to Sex Determination

By: Stevens, Nettie M.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Washington, Carnegie Institution: 1906

Seller ID: 316

RARE FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK STUDY OF SEX DETERMINATION BY PIONEER FEMALE AMERICAN GENETICIST. Part II only: 10 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth boards, gilt title to cover, corners bumped, vg, ex-library, stamp of Scripps Institution for Biological Research title page. Pages 33-72, plates 8-15 containing 293 figures of chromosomes. Also included: 9 inches tall facsimile of Parts I and II in color printed paper covers, fine. NETTIE MARIA STEVENS (1861 - 1912) was an early American geneticist. She and Edmund Beecher Wilson were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal basi...
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