Category: Genetics

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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The Language of Life. An introduction to the science of genetics

By: Beadle, George W. and Beadle, Muriel

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Co., Inc. : 1966

Seller ID: 1275

1966 ILLUSTRATED LAY GUIDE TO GENETICS BY NOBEL LAUREATE GENETICIST GEORGE BEADLE AND HIS WIFE MURIEL BEADLE--SIGNED BY BOTH.9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gray cloth spine, inscribed on half-title page: Sincerely,/ George Beadle/ Muriel Beadle, x, [4], 242 pp, many illustrations in text, a few marginal pencil notes, very good in very good minus jacket with darkened edges, in Brodart protective cover. LAID IN: Newspaper review of the book by Noman Ross. GEORGE WELLS BEADLE (1903 - 1989) was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology o...
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Eugenics. Galton and After

By: Blacker, C.P.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. : 1952

Seller ID: 472

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...
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The Mendelian Revolution: The Emergence of Hereditarian Concepts in Modern Science and Society

By: Bowler, Peter J.

Price: $15.00

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...
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Advances in Genetics, Volumes 1-13

By: Demerec, M.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, Academic Press : 1947-1965

Seller ID: 346

SEMINAL PAPERS BY LEADING POSTWAR GENETICISTS IN THE YEARS SURROUNDING THE DISCOVERY OF DNA STRUCTURE. 13 volumes 9 1/4 inchs tall, original green cloth binding, gilt titles to spine, library labels removed from spines, bookplate of Armed Forces Institute of Pathology on front paste-down of some volumes, library handstamp to top edge of some volumes, handstamp of Library of Congress to front free endpapers (canceled), library pocket and handstamps to rear paste-down, text pages clean and unmarked. Overall good+. PREFACE to Volume 1: As material for their research geneticists use higher and low...
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National Vitality, Its Wastes and Conservation [Extract from Report of the National Conservation Commission (Senate Document No. 676, Vol. III, Sixtieth Congress, second session)]

By: Fisher, Irving

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1910

Seller ID: 915

1910 IRVING FISHER'S REPORT TO THE NATION ON THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN PROLOGATION OF LIFE. 9 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather on red cloth boards, gilt name (John T. Swift) to front cover, marbled edges and endpapers, paginated 620 to 751, graph of survivorship curves; cover edges rubbed, binding tight, very good. Cited by Comfort in The Science of Human Perfection (2012): "Under the Committee's auspices, in 1909 Fisher wrote the Report on National Vitality, a 138-page essay that marshaled his skills as an economist. If we appraise a human life at only $1700, he wrote, and each yea...
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The Harvey Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Harvey Society of New York, Series 67

By: Good RA;Benacerraf B;Merrifield B;Axelrod J;Dole VP;Berg P

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York and London, Academic Press : 1973

Seller ID: 86

KEY LECTURES IN IMMUNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY AT THE DAWN OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BY WINNERS OF THE LASKER AWARD AND NOBEL PRIZE. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, xiv, 357 pages, illustrated, corners bumped, university library bookplate to front paste-down, very good. THE HARVEY SOCIETY is a learned society based in New York City, Named after the British scientist William Harvey (1578-1657), its scope is 'the diffusion of knowledge of the medical sciences'. Since its founding in 1905, the society has sponsored an annual series of lectures given by leading biomedical researchers which...
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Evolution in Four Dimensions. Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life

By: Jablonka, Eva and Lamb, Marion J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, MIT Press : 2006

Seller ID: 538

MILESTONE STUDY OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GENETICS, EPIGENETICS, AND CULTURE AS DRIVERS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION. 9 inches tall softcover, color printed laminated covers, 462 pp, illustrations, fine. EVA JABLONKA (born 1952) is an Israeli theorist and geneticist, known especially for her interest in epigenetic inheritance. Born in 1952 in Poland, she emigrated to Israel in 1957. She is a professor at the Cohn Institute for the History of Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. MARION J. LAMB Marion J. Lamb was Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, before her retirement. S...
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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. The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics: 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 Champ...
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Genetic Instability in Cancer

By: Lindahl, T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press : 1996

Seller ID: 948

1996 COLLECTION OF PAPERS BY LEADERS IN RESEARCH OF DNA REPAIR, EDITED BY THOMAS LINDAHL, AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE IN 2015 FOR HIS WORK IN THIS FIELD. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, color printed laminated covers, handstamp to edge, front flyleaf and back paste-down, residue from removed library pocket back paste-down, vi, 353 pp, illustrations, binding tight, text pages unmarked, good+. THOMAS ROBERT LINDAHL (born 1938) did postdoctoral research at Princeton University and Rockefeller University. He was professor of medical chemistry at the University of Gothenburg 1978â€“82. After moving to th...
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Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Catalogs of Autosomal Dominant, Augosomal Recessive, and X-Linked Phenotypes

By: McKusick, Victor A.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press : 1966

Seller ID: 861

1966 SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF McKUSICK'S LANDMARK MENDELIAN INHERITANCE IN MAN, WITH 1400 ENTRIES--NOW OVER 25,000 ENTRIES IN THE CURRENT ONLINE VERSION. 9 3/4 inches tall hardcover, laminated printed covers, faint library handstamp to edges, library pocket and bookplate to front paste-down (withdrawn stamped), xvii, 344 pp; binding tight, text clean and unmarked, good. VICTOR ALMON McKUSICK (1921 - 2008) was an American internist and medical geneticist, and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He was a proponent of the mapping of the human genome due to its use for s...
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Heredity and Sex

By: Morgan, Thomas Hunt

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press : 1913

Seller ID: 865

1913 FIRST EDITION OF T.H. MORGAN'S FIRST BOOK OF EXPERIMENTS ON DROSOPHILA, WHICH LED TO GROUNDBREAKING DISCOVERIES IN GENETICS AND THE NOBEL PRIZE IN 1933. 8 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt emblem of Columbia University Press to cover, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt, signature of H. F. Roberts, $1.58 to front flyleaf, ix, 282 pp, 121 figures, publisher's advertisements, light wear to cover edges, binding tight, text unmarked, very good. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: Two lines of research have developed with surprising rapidity in recent years. The study of the cell has furnished ...
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The Interpretation of Development and Heredity

By: Russell, E. S.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press : 1930

Seller ID: 862

1930 FIRST EDITION OF CONTRARIAN SCOTTISH BIOLOGIST AND PHILOSOPHER WHO DISAGREED WITH MERGING MENDELIAN GENETICS AND EVOLUTION IN THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 8 3/4 inches hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, [viii], 312 pp, scattered light spots to covers, corners bumped, spine gilt bright, binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, very good. EDWARD STUART RUSSELL (1887 - 1954) was a Scottish biologist and philosopher of biology. He studied at Greenock Academy and later at Glasgow University under Sir Graham Kerr and worked with J. Arthur Thompson after he graduated. He was influenc...
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The Double Helix

By: Watson, J.D.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson : 1968

Seller ID: 324

FIRST PRINTING OF NOBEL LAUREATE JAMES WATSON'S ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF DNA. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, purple cloth, gilt title and double helix motif to spine bright, corners lightly bumped, text unmarked, very good. Good+ dust jacket, not price clipped, with edgewear and 1 inch closed tear to bottom of back. Foreword by Sir Lawrence Bragg, Photographs and line illustrations depcting major players and milestones in the discovery of DNA, facsimile of letter to Delbruck dated March 12, 1953, telling of the double helix. First London edition, first printing (published same year as America...
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Studies in Genetics: I. a cytophotometric analysis of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) content in germ cells from santa gertrudis bulls

By: Wheeler, Marshall R. (editor) and Welch, Robert M. (investigator)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Austin, The University of Texas : [1960]

Seller ID: 859

1960 SCARCE COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPERS ON BOVINE FERTILITY DETERMINED BY DNA CONTENT OF BULL SPERM SHORTLY AFTER DISCOVERY OF DNA. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, vi, 136 pp, fine in fine dust jacket. CONTENTS: I. Introduction Robert M. Welch; The Experimental Error of Feulgen Cytophotometry in the Analysis of Bull Spermatozoa Over an Extended Period of Time Robert M. Welch and E. W- Hanly; III. The Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Content of Semen Spermatozoa and Testis Germinal Cells from Santa Gertrudis Bulls of Known Fertility and Infertility ...
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Family Treasures. A Study of the Inheritance of Normal Characteristics in Man

By: Whitney DD;

Price: $15.00

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...
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Category: Genetics