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Image for Four offprints: Born's method of reconstruction by means of wax plates as used in the anatomical laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, 1901; TOGETHER WITH Development of the Limbs, Body-Wall and Back in Man, The American Journal of Anatomy, 1902; TOGETHER WITH A statistical study of the abdominal and border-nerves in man, The American Journal of Anatomy, 1902; TOGETHER WITH The development of the lungs,The American Journal of Anatomy, 1906

Four offprints: Born's method of reconstruction by means of wax plates as used in the anatomical laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, 1901; TOGETHER WITH Development of the Limbs, Body-Wall and Back in Man, The American Journal of Anatomy, 1902; TOGETHER WITH A statistical study of the abdominal and border-nerves in man, The American Journal of Anatomy, 1902; TOGETHER WITH The development of the lungs,The American Journal of Anatomy, 1906

By: Bardeen, Charles Russell, Lewis, Warren Harmon and Flint, Joseph Marshall

Price: $50.00

Publisher: 1901 * 1906

Seller ID: 937

1901 - 1906 FOUR OFFPRINTS BY AMERICAN PIONEERS IN ANATOMY AND EMBRYOLOGY: REMARKABLE 3D IMAGERY BEFORE THE DEVELOPOMENT OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green buckram binding, gilt title to cover and spine, original wraps bound in. 1. CR Bardeen. Born's method...signed J.M. Flint on cover, with stamp with the compliments of C.R. Bardeen, 9pp; 2. CR Bardeen & WH Lewis. Development of the limbs..., 35 pp, with 9 plates and 27 text figures; 3. CR Bardeen. A statistical study...signed J.M. Flint on cover, with stamp with the writer's compliments, 203-228; 4. JM Flint. The deve...
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Plasticity, Robustness, Development, and Evolution

By: Bateson, Patrick and Gluckman, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2011

Seller ID: 542

A LUCID EXPOSITION OF THE TENSIONS BETWEEN ROBUSTNESS IN EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT AND PLASTICITY REQUIRED FOR ADAPTATION TO THE ENVIRONMENT. 9 inches tall softcover, color printed laminated covers, 156 pp, illustrations, fine. PATRICK BATESON (1938 - 2017) was an English biologist and science writer. Bateson was a professor of ethology at the University of Cambridge and president of the Zoological Society of London. PETER GLUCKMAN (born 1949) is a New Zealand paediatrician. He is currently the inaugural Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister. He is the Professor of Paediatric and...
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Life Cycles: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist

By: Bonner, John Tyler

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 501

UNIQUE VIEW OF EVOLUTION BY PIONEER OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. 9 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 209 pp, fine in fine dust jacket. JOHN TYLER BONNER (born 1920) is professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. He is a pioneer in the use of cellular slime molds to understand evolution and development over a career of 40 years and is one of the world's leading experts on cellular slime moulds. The establishment and growth of developmental-evolutionary biology (evo-devo) owes a great debt to the work of Bonner...
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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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Individuality in Organisms

By: Child, C.M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1915

Seller ID: 483

1915 PIONEERING MONOGRAPH ON EXPERIMENTAL REGENERATION AND EVOLUTION. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to cover, physician bookplate to front paste-down, bookseller's label bottom of front free endpaper, embossed stamp of Dr. George B. Wilbur, South Dennis, Massachusetts, half title, i-x, 213 pp, 102 figures in text. Spine faded, light foxing to endpapers, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good, in custom archival mylar cover. FROM PREFACE: The present book deals primarily with the problem of the nature of the unity and order in the organism, the constan...
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Dynamics in Metazoan Evolution: The Origin of the Coelom and Segments

By: Clark, Robert B.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1964

Seller ID: 451

THE FIRST MAJOR ACCOUNT OF ANIMAL EVOLUTION BASED ON FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, previous owner's signature to front endpaper, 313 pp, over 100 figures, very good in good jacket. Cited by Wainwright in Axis and Circumference (1988), The first major account of animal evolution based on functional morphology is that of Clark (1964). ROBERT BERNARD CLARK (1923 - 2013) was appointed to the Chair of Zoology at Newcastle University in 1966, a post he held until his retirement in October 1989. His long and distinguished...
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Growth

By: de Beer, G.R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Edward Arnold & Co: 1924

Seller ID: 717

1924 BRILLIANT LITTLE MONOGRAPH ON THE BIOLOGY OF GROWTH ACROSS THE ANIMAL AND PLANT KINGDOMS, AND THE FACTORS THAT REGULATE IT. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue coth binding, gilt title to spine, physician's bookplate to front paste-down, frontis photomicrographs of plant growth, viii, 120 pp, 33 text figures, 7 black & white plates, very good. GAVIN R. de BEER (1899 - 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, 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 ev...
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Infant Development. The Embryology of Early Human Behavior

By: Gesell, Arnold

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1952

Seller ID: 413

FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT BY ARNOLD GESELL, FOUNDER OF YALE CHILD STUDY CENTER, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, hand stamp of previous owner to front endpapers, inscribed and signed by author on title page: Dr. Howard Page/ With appreciation of his interest in the film project/ Arnold Gesell. Light abrasions to edge of cover, spine faded, corners and ends of spine bumped, binding firm and pages clean, overall very good. From the Preface: Over a period of more than thirty-five years...
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Living Organisms: An Account of Their Origin & Evolution

By: Goodrich, Edwin S.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1924

Seller ID: 484

1924 ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON STATE-OF-THE-ART OF EVOLUTION IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY. 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, physician bookplate to front paste-down, frontis portrait of Darwin, with tissue guard, 200 pp, 60 illustrations. Very good in very good- dust jacket in mylar cover. EDWIN STEPHEN GOODRICH (1868 - 1946), was an English zoologist, specialising in comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology, and evolution. He held the Linacre Chair of Zoology in the University of Oxford from 1921 to 1946. He served as editor of the Quarterly Journ...
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The Evolution of Man. A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny

By: Haeckel, Ernst

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co.: 1897

Seller ID: 447

1897 TWO-VOLUME RICHLY ILLUSTRATED EXPOSITION OF EVOLUTION, ONTOLOGY AND PHYLOGENY BY DARWIN'S GERMAN CHAMPION. Two volumes, 7 3/4 inches tall pebbled calf over marbled boards, top edge gilt, others uncut, bookplate of Charles H. Reckefus, Jr. to front paste-down of each volume. Frontispiece (in Volume 1) + 14 plates (some color), 492 woodcuts & 55 tables. VOLUME 1: xxxviii, 467pp.; VOLUME 2: xviii, 504pp. Leather spines and corners rubbed, base of spines worn away, bindings tight, pages crisp and unmarked. ERNST HAECKEL (1834 - 1919) was a German biologist, philosopher, physician, and artist ...
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Human Figure Drewings of Mildly Handicapped Students. Learning Disabled, Mildly Mentally Retarded, Emotionally Disturbed, and Speech/Language Impaired

By: Jones, Carroll J.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas: 1992

Seller ID: 426

SCARCE ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON INTERPRETATION OF HANDICAPPED CHILDEN'S HUMAN FIGURE DRAWINGS. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, 114 pages, 70 black & white illustrations. Covers clean and bright, text unmarked. Institutional library handstamp to edges, front and rear endpapers; library pocket rear endpaper. Very good-. FOREWORD: This is an unusual book. Not many authors have been successful in the attempt to compile children's drawings of people and present them in a way that has some psychological or educational use. .... Juxtaposed to normal dev...
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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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The Problem of Age, Growth, and Death: A Study of Cytomorphosis Based on Lectures at the Lowell Institute March, 1907

By: Minot, Charles S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1908

Seller ID: 946

1908 ILLUSTRATED LECTURES ON THE BIOLOGY OF THE LIFE CYCLE ACROSS SPECIES BY PROMINENT AMERICAN ANATOMIST. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt publisher's logo to cover, gilt title to spine, bookplates of previous physician owners to front paste-down, dated signature front flyleaf, xxii, 280 pp, 73 illustrations, publisher's advertisements. Corners bumped, wear to edges, binding tight, pages clean, very good minus. CHARLES-SEDGWICK MINOT (1852 - 1914) graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1872, studied biology at Leipzig, Paris, and WÃ¼rzburg. At Har...
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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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Image for On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia, together with On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia; and on the Direct Agency of the Spermatozoon, together with Researches on the Impregnation of the Ovum int the Amphibia; and on the Early Stages of Development of the Embryo

On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia, together with On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia; and on the Direct Agency of the Spermatozoon, together with Researches on the Impregnation of the Ovum int the Amphibia; and on the Early Stages of Development of the Embryo

By: Newport, George

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, Royal Society of London: 1851-1854

Seller ID: 590

FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK PAPERS DEMONSTRATING THE PROCESS OF FERTILIZATION OF THE VERTEBRATE EGG, AND EARLY EMBRYOGENESIS. 12 inches tall hardcover, recent 1/2 maroon cloth binding, marbled paper covers, gilt leather label to spine, new endpapers, list of sources of papers followed by bound extracts from 3 issues of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Vol 141, pp 169-242, Plate XIV (1851), Vol. 143, pp 233-290 (1853), Vol. 144, pp 229-244 (1854). Binding fine, text pages unmarked, plate margins darkened, small college library embossed stamp to bottom of plate, very ...
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Nephrons and Kidneys: A Quantitative Study of Developmental and Evolutionary Mammalian Renal Architectonics

By: Oliver, Jean

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Evanston, London, Hoeber Medical Division, Harper and Row: 1968

Seller ID: 609

SPECTACULAR FOLIO ATLAS OF HUMAN KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT WITH MOSAIC PHOTOMICROGRAPHS OF MICRODISSECTED NEPHRONS. 18 inches tall folio hardcover, publisher's black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, frontis plate of developing nephrons, x, 117 pp, 27 plates (with overlaid tracings applied to first 21 plates), and 25 text figures, fine in custom archival mylar cover. REVIEW BY G.H. FETTERMAN in Annals of Internal Medicine, September 1968: This book will not fit on the average shelf, but then. it is not an average hook. It is beautifully written and superbly illustrated. In it Dr. Oliver f...
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Collection of Offprints 1930-1965

By: Rawles, Mary E.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: 1930 - 1965

Seller ID: 938

1930-1965: 43 OFFPRINTS SPANNING THE CAREER OF MARY RAWLES, BRILLIANT CO-WORKER WITH BENJAMIN WILLIER DURING THE BIRTH OF EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY IN AMERICA--INSCRIBED TO A COLLEAGUE. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green buckram binding, gilt title to spine, 43 offprints with covers, dealing primarily with embryology of chicks. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf, To my dear friend Irwin, with regards, Mary Rawles. Covers as new, and offprints are unmarked, fine. MARY E. RAWLES registered as a graduate student with Benjamin H. Willier at the University of Chicago in 1928, and soon impressed h...
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Embryonic Development and Induction

By: Spemann, Hans

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Hafner Publishing Co.: 1967

Seller ID: 640

LANDMARK TEXT BY HANS SPEMANN, NOBEL LAUREATE WHO DISCOVERED KEY MECHANISMS OF EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT.9 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, handstamp of Frank H Ruddle to front flyleaf, xii, 401 pp, 192 illustrations in text, covers clean, binding tight, text pages unmarked, price-clipped dust jacket with tears top of spine, very good. HANS SPEMANN (1869 â€“ 1941) was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his discovery of the effect now known as embryonic induction, an influence, exercised by various parts of the...
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Memoires, pour servir a l'Histoire d'un Genre de Polypes d'Eau Douce a Bras en Forme de Cornes

By: Trembley, A.

Price: $800.00

Publisher: Leyden, Verbeek, Jean and Herman: 1744

Seller ID: 683

1744 ILLUSTRATED BY FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS, THE FIRST STUDY OF REGENERATION BY ABRAHAM TREMBLEY, PIONEER IN EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY. 10 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather with navy blue paper-covered boards, gilt title to spine, xvi, 324 pp. Each of the 4 memoirs is preceded by an engraved vignette showing Trembley with his 2 students collecting specimens and performing experiments in his laboratory at the chateau. 13 very fine folding copper plate engravings reveal the anatomy, behavior, reproduction, and regenerative capacity of the polyp. Binding is tight, dried paste residue from remove...
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Symbionticism and the Origin of Species

By: Wallin, Ivan E.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Baltimore, The Williams & Wilkins Co.: 1927

Seller ID: 489

1927 FIRST EDITION PIONEERING STUDY OF SYMBIOTIC ORIGIN OF MITOCHONDRIA BY COLORADO BIOLOGIST. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, handstamp of previous owner to front paste-down, light wear to covers and corners, text unmarked, no jacket, very good, in custom archival mylar cover. IVAN EMANUEL WALLIN (1883 - 1969) was an American biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory. Nicknamed the Mitochondria Man, he claimed that mitochondria, which are cell organelles, were once independent bacteria, as supported by his compara...
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Category: Development