1952 FIRST EDITION POSTWAR HISTORY OF EUGENICS BY GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE EUGENICS SOCIETY. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, navy blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 13.5x22 cm blue cloth boards, fine in fine dust jacket protected by mylar cover. CARLOS PATON BLACKER (1895 - 1975) was an eminent war hero, psychiatrist and eugenicist who worked with R.A. Fisher and Lionel Penrose. Blacker was educated at Eton and Oxford where he attained distinction in biology under the tutelage of Julian Huxley. From 1931 to 1952, Blacker was secretary of the Eugenics Society and he gave it a new focus on bi... View More...
Publisher:
Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press : 1989
Seller ID: 528
BOWLER'S MASTERFUL ACCOUNT OF THE IMPACT OF THE REDISCOVERY OF MENDEL'S PAPER ON THE BIRTH OF MOLECULAR GENETICS. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 207 pp, handstamp of Leigh M. Van Valen to front paste-down, otherwise unmarked. Fine in fine dust jacket. PETER J. BOWLER (born 8 October 1944) is a historian of biology who has written extensively on the history of evolutionary thought, the history of the environmental sciences, and on the history of genetics. CITED BY G. L. MILLER (1992): A good general and nontechnical survey of the important changes that ha... View More...
Publisher:
Lancaster, PA, The Jaques Cattell Press : 1942
Seller ID: 135
1942 ILLUSTRATED POPULAR EUGENICS TEXT FOR AMATEURS! 10 inches tall hardcover, 299 pages, blue cloth binding, gilt title on spine, 234 photographic illustrations. Covers bright and clean, previous owner's signature front paste-down, no other marks, very good. PREFACE: 'This book is written for amateurs in the study of human heredity and for those who are interested in personal inheritance of family traits. It is a simple presentation mainly by photographs of many of the normal traits appearing in families of two or more successive generations. During the past centuries nearly all of the emphas... View More...
