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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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Metaphysics, Materialism, and the Evolution of MInd. The Early Writings of Charles Darwin

By: Darwin, Charles, Gruber, Howard E. and Barrett, Paul H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicaago, The University of Chicago Press: 1980

Seller ID: 537

DARWIN'S EARLY NOTEBOOKS EDITED BY BARRETT WITH COMMENTS BY HOWARD GRUBER: DARWIN'S THOUGHTS LEADING TO THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 9 inches tall softcover, color printed laminated covers, 228 pp, illustrations, fine. In a review, STEPHEN JAY GOULD WROTE, These notebooks display all the features of humanistic intellect that his detractors denied. ... Charles Darwin was reconstructing the world and he knew exactly what he was doing.
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

By: Dennett, Daniel C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1995

Seller ID: 468

DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA--DANIEL DENNETT'S SURPASSINGLY BRILLIANT BOOK (PER RICHARD DAWKINS). 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black paper-covered boards, gilt title to spine, fine in fine dust jacket in protective mylar cover. DANIEL C. DENNETT (born 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Dennett describes himself as an autodidactâ€”or, more properly, the beneficiary of hundreds of hour...
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Manhood of Humanity. The Science and Art of Human Engineering

By: Korzybski, Alfred

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1921

Seller ID: 568

1921 FIRST EDITION OF KORZYBSKI'S FIRST BOOK ON GENERAL SEMANTICS AND TIME BINDING. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, previous owner signature dated 1921 to front paste-down, [presumed] price paid, ($3.00) front endpaper. FROM THE PREFACE: in this book an effort has been made to approach the problem of Man from a scientific-mathematical point of view, and therefore great pains have been taken not to use words insufficiently defined, or words with many meanings. CONTENTS: I. Introduction. II. Childhood of Humanity. III. Classes of Iife....
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Publications by Dr. Albert P. Mathews

By: Mathews, Albert P

Price: $150.00

Publisher: 1893 - 1925

Seller ID: 694

BOUND COLLECTION OF 53 OFFPRINTS BY ALBERT MATHEWS, AMERICAN PIONEER PHYSICAL CHEMIST, FROM THE LIBRARY OF EMMETT CARMICHAEL, CHAIR OF BIOCHEMISTRY AT UAB 1927 - 1966. 10 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine with owner's name (Emmett B. Carmichael) bottom of spine, bookplate of Emmett B. Carmichael to front paste-down, typescript table of contents, 53 offprints with printed paper covers bound in, covers worn, contents unmarked, crisp, overall very good. Mathews is sole author of almost all papers, which span a wide range of disciplines including physiology, pharmacolo...
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Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

By: Thomas, Lewis

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1983

Seller ID: 523

THIRD COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY PHYSICIAN PHILOSOPHER AND SOCIAL COMMENTATOR LEWIS THOMAS, AUTHOR FOR THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue paper covered boards, gilt author's initials to cover, red cloth spine with gilt title, 168 pp, very good in very good- dust jacket with edge tears. LEWIS THOMAS (1913 - 1993) was an American physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. He was invited to write regular essays in the New England Journal of Medicine. One collection of those essays, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of...
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Image for Wayside Thoughts of an Asophophilosopher, No. 1. Rainy Weather; or, the Philosophy of Sorrow; Gooseskin; or, the Philosophy of Horror; Te Deum Laudamus; or, the Philosophy of Joy; No. 2. On Asses and the Life Asinine; On History; On Plagues; No. 3. Not Godless but Godly: A Triangular Essay on Education. The Schools and Colleges of the United Kingdom.

Wayside Thoughts of an Asophophilosopher, No. 1. Rainy Weather; or, the Philosophy of Sorrow; Gooseskin; or, the Philosophy of Horror; Te Deum Laudamus; or, the Philosophy of Joy; No. 2. On Asses and the Life Asinine; On History; On Plagues; No. 3. Not Godless but Godly: A Triangular Essay on Education. The Schools and Colleges of the United Kingdom.

By: Thompson DW;

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas: 1865

Seller ID: 142

RARE CURIOUS ESSAYS BY 19TH CENTURY SCOTTISH CLASSICIST, FATHER OF NOTED BIOLOGIST. Issues 1-3 [all published], slim pamphlets 6 1/2 inches tall, vignette on printed paper wraps and title page. Lightly soiled and chipped original printed wraps, spine worn in Vol. 3 and Vol. 1 lacking wraps. Texts complete and unmarked. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (senior) (1829-1902), classical master at the Edinburgh Academy and Professor of Greek in Queen's College, Galway, was father of noted biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (junior) ( 1860-1948). Scarce: only 14 copies in WorldCat (all in UK except NY Pub...
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Category: Philosophy

The Evolution of Genetic Systems

Metaphysics, Materialism, and the Evolution of MInd. The Early Writings of Charles Darwin

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

Manhood of Humanity. The Science and Art of Human Engineering

Publications by Dr. Albert P. Mathews

Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony