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The Sciences Were Never at War.

By: BEER, Sir Gavin de.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: London et al:, Thomas Nelson, (1960).: 1960

Seller ID: RH1245

8vo. xv, 279 pp. Illus., index. Gilt-stamped navy cloth; dust jacket; jacket worn with portion missing. Very good. Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer FRS (18991972) was a British evolutionary embryologist. Dust jacket present.
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Human Evolution; an introduction to man's adaptations. Second edition.

By: CAMPBELL, Bernard G.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Chicago:, Aldine, (1974).: 1974

Seller ID: BL4275

ISBN: 0202020126

8vo. xiv, 469 pp. Figs., index. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket extremities a bit worn. Very good. ISBN: 0202020126 / 0-202-02012-6
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Source Book - European Intensive Course on Origins and Early Evolution of Life, July 6-11, 1987.

By: Council of Europe Division for Higher Education and Research - Research Group on Chemical Evolution, Early Biological Evolution and Exobiology.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Barcelona:, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 1987.: 1987

Seller ID: M11782

8vo. 163 pp. Printed wrappers, Mylar cover. TLS from former University of Houston biochemist J. Oro explaining the volume's origin laid-in. Very good. From the library of chemist and biologist Stanley Miller who was most famous for conducting the Miller-Urey experiment in 1952. He demonstrated that organic compounds could form naturally from inorganic precursors, essentially providing a scientific basis for the theory of abiogenesis.
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Organic Evolution as the Result of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters according to the Laws of Organic Growth.

By: EIMER, G.H. Theodor.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London & New York:, Macmillan, 1890.: 1890

Seller ID: BL3954

8vo. xxviii, 435 pp. Original dark green blind and gilt-stamped cloth; joints mended with kozo, spine head torn and missing a piece. With pencil marginalia and several tipped-in tissue inserts with detailed manuscript notes-comments about text. Good. Gustav Heinrich Theodor Eimer (1843-1898), German zoologist, became a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Tubingen. He is credited with popularizing the term "Orthogenesis" to describe an intrinsic drive in life towards perfection, a form of directed evolution.
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Darwin and the General Reader: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution in the British Periodical Press, 1859-1872.

By: ELLEGARD, Alvar.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Goteborg:, Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, 1958.: 1958

Seller ID: BL2283

8vo. 394 pp. Tables, diagrams, index. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover emblem and spine title, dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Near fine. First edition, cloth issue, rare in jacket. First Edition.
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Einfuhrung in die Vererbungswissenschaft; in zwanzig Vorlesungen fur Studierende, Aerzte, Zuchter.

By: GOLDSCHMIDT, Richard (1878-1958).

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Leipzig:, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1923.: 1923

Seller ID: BL3973

Fourth edition, improved. 8vo. XII, 547 pp. 176 figs., index. Grayish-blue blind and white-stamped cloth; some fading. Very good.
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Science, Ideology, and World View: Essays in the History of Evolutionary Ideas.

By: GREENE, John C.

Price: $34.00

Publisher: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London:, University of California Press, (1981).: 1981

Seller ID: BL2212

ISBN: 0520042174

First printing. 8vo. x, 202 pp. Index. Gray cloth, black stamped spine title, dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. ISBN: 0520042174 First Edition.
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The Broken Bough; the solution to the riddle of man.

By: KEATING, Edward M.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York:, Atheneum, 1975.: 1975

Seller ID: BL4478

ISBN: 0689106793

8vo. viii, 471 pp. Index. Cloth, dust-jacket. Very good +. ISBN: 0689106793 / 0-689-10679-3
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Evolution and its Implications, an introductory survey.

By: KELLY, Peter.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: London:, Mills & Boon, (1962).: 1962

Seller ID: BL4482

Series: Science in Society, 3. 8vo. 232 pp. Numerous figs., index. Cloth, dust-jacket. Ownership rubberstamp of Monroe W. Strickberger. Very good.
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Evolution and Religion: The Conflict Between Science and Theology in Modern America. Problems in American Civilization.

By: KENNEDY, Gail (editor).

Price: $2.75

Publisher: Lexington, MA:, D.C. Heath, (1968).: 1968

Seller ID: BL4487

8vo. xii, 124 pp. Printed wrappers; rubbed. Good. Ownership rubberstamp of Monroe W. Strickberger.
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The Evolution of Mammalian Characters. Illustrated by A.J. Lee.

By: KERMACK, D.M.; K.A. KERMACK.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Washington, DC:, Kapitan Szabo, (1984).: 1984

Seller ID: BL4491

ISBN: 0709915349

8vo. x, 149 pp. Figs., index. Black cloth, dust-jacket. Very good. ISBN: 0709915349 / 0-7099-1534-9
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Darwin's Laboratory: Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific.

By: MacLEOD, Roy & Philip F. REHBOCK (eds.).

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Honolulu:, University of Hawaii Press, (1994).: 1994

Seller ID: BL2300

ISBN: 0824816137

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. x, 540 pp. Illustrations, maps, figs., index. Blue cloth, silver stamped spine title, dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. ISBN: 0824816137 First Edition.
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The Young Darwin and His Cultural Circle: A Study of Influences Which Helped Shape the Language and Logic of the First Drafts of the Theory of Natural Selection.

By: MANIER, Edward.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Dordrecht and Boston:, D. Reidel, (1978).: 1978

Seller ID: BL1848

ISBN: 9027708568

Series: Studies in the History of Modern Science, Vol. 2. 8vo. Brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. ISBN: 9027708568
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Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World.

By: NICHOLS, Peter.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York:, HarperCollins, (2003).: 2003

Seller ID: BL2404

ISBN: 006008877X

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 336 pp. Illustrations, maps. Quarter burgundy paper with teal paper boards, gilt-stamped spine title, dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. ISBN: 006008877X First Edition.
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Science, Meaning, & Evolution; The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme.

By: NICOLESCU, Basarab.

Price: $11.00

Publisher: New York:, Parabola Books, 1991.: 1991

Seller ID: S13031

ISBN: 0930407202

8vo. 235 pp. Illus., index. Blue gilt-stamped cloth, dust-jacket. Near fine. ISBN 10: 0930407202
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Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender.

By: NUMBERS, Ronald L. & John STENHOUSE (eds.).

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Cambridge:, Cambridge University Press, (1999).: 1999

Seller ID: BL1259

ISBN: 0521620716

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. xi, 300 pp. Index. Black cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles. Burndy bookplate. Fine. ISBN: 0521620716 First Edition.
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Descendenzlehre und Darwinismus. Dritte verbesserte auflage.

By: SCHMIDT, Oscar [Eduard Oskar Schmidt] (1823-1886).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Leipzig:, F. A. Brockhaus, 1884.: 1884

Seller ID: BL3925

Sm. 8vo. x, 308 pp. 26 figs. Original dark green blind and gilt-stamped cloth. Fine copy. "Schmidt was an early proponent of Darwinian evolutionary thought. He is remembered for his research of Porifera (sponges), particularly species from the Adriatic Sea. Schmidt also made contributions to the field of phycology."
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The War on Modern Science; a Short History of the Fundamentalist Attacks on Evolution and Modernism.

By: SHIPLEY, Maynard.

Price: $170.00

Publisher: New York & London:, Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.: 1927

Seller ID: RH1211

8vo. xiv, 415 pp. Appendix, index; marginal pencil notes on index, browning between page 100-101 due to inserted newspaper. Yellow-stamped red cloth, spine faded. Good +. "The author [MAYNARD SHIPLEY],. . .traces here briefly and in a most interesting manner the fundamentalist attacks on evolution and modernism. Through Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina and through other Southern states, he proceeds to the shame of Tennessee, quoting from the press items which reveal that there is hardly a state in the United States that has not an unscientific fundamentalist group. The cases of such fun...
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The 6th International Conference on the Origins of Life and the 3rd International Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Origins of Life. June 22-27, 1980. Program.

By: Society for the Study of the Origins of Life.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Jerusalem:, Israel Academy of Sciences and Academies, Weizmann Institute of Science, and Hebrew University, 1980.: 1980

Seller ID: M11894

8vo. 23 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good.
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Handlist of Darwin Papers at the University Library, Cambridge.

By: [DARWIN] Cambridge University Library.

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Cambridge:, Cambridge University Press, 1960.: 1960

Seller ID: BL2035

8vo. 72 pp. Indexes. Printed wrappers; covers lightly browned. Sewn. Burndy bookplate. Very good. Scarce.
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