Search Results: Evolution from Breck Bartholomew Natural History Books

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Paperback

Cladistics. 4:105-209., 1988.

Hardcover with a dust-jacket. While an enzyme molecule or an eye might seem supremely improbable in their complexity, they are not accidental, nor need we assume that they are the designed handiwork of a Creator, asserts Oxford biologist Dawkins. This foremost neo-Darwinian exponent explains the dazzling array of living things as the result of natural selection. Dawkins explores how ordered complexity arose by discussing spiders' web-building techniques, the gradual evolution of elephant trunks and of wings (birds, he concludes, evolved from two-legged dinosaurs, not from tree gliders) and the symbiotic relationship between the 900 species of figs and their sole genetic companions, the miniature wasps that pollinate specific fig species. Using "computer biomorphs" (simulated creatures "bred" from a common ancestor), Dawkins demonstrates how varieties of the same plant or animal species can vary in shape because of differences in just a few genes.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Clothbound with a dust-jacket

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1960. Clothbound with a dust-jacket.

New York: Science Editions, 1955 (1966. Clothbound. Good. Ex-Lib

Moscow-Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, 1962. Hardcover. Used. In Russian

London: Palaeontological Assosciation, 1973. Paperback

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Hardcover with a dust-jacket. This exceptional book celebrates the inevitability of global change and highlights our need as human beings to recognize and adjust to it. Its entertaining and accessible text displays a remarkable breadth and diversity of knowledge, drawing upon discoveries in natural history, geology, geography and paleontology to unravel secrets of millions of years. Its unique structure offers the opportunity to pursue two distinct but parallel narratives in one volume - the first characterized by discrete photo-essay spreads, and the second by authoritative running text illustrated with clearly numbered icons. Designed either to be browsed through like a website or read in chronological sequence, each chapter provides a fascinating glimpse into the formation and development of our world.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961. Clothbound with a dust-jacket

Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 1895. The hereditary mechanism and the search for the unknown factors of evolution. Biological Lectures delivered at The Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood Holl in the summer session of 1894. 79-100. Original wrappers. The state of knowledge about heredity shortly before Mendel's work was rediscovered.