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The author, a biologist, explains the techniques by which animals make their way, sometimes thousands of kilometers, from one habitat to another with none of the instruments considered essential to human navigation. 243 pages with 150 colour illustrations. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamp, sticker, and borrowing sleave remnants on back endpaper and inside back cover. Dust jacket in very good+ condition in clear wrapper with stickers on back.
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Animal Navigation
by Talbot H Waterman
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Animals without Backbones: 1 and 2: An Introduction to the Invertebrates
by Ralph Buchsbaum
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About 95% of animal species lack backbones. Each of these volumes gives a complete account of the various groups of animals it deals with consequently can be read by itself. Vol 1 Pages 1 - 204 with 64 pages of black and white photographs and drawings on most pages accompanying the text.Vol 2 Pages 205 - 401 with 64 pages of black and white photographs and drawings on most pages accompanying he text.The Index for both volumes is in Volume 2. Price is for the 2 volumes.Both volumes are in very good condition with previous owners name on first page, tanning and some wear to covers.
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Australian Seashore Life
by John Child
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An introduction to the living plants and animals found in the Australian seashore zone. 87 pages with more than 50 illustrations in colour, 29 diagrams of animal structure and many monochromes. Book in very good condition with slight marking on leading edge.
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Australia's Four Billion Year Diary
by Reg Morrison
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An illustrated resource for students of Earth and Environmental Science and Biology, as well as those interested in Australia's matchless record of geological and biological evolution. 33 pages with colour photographs and illustrations throughout. Book in as new condition.
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Bio Evolution, How Biotechnology is Changing Our World
by Michael Fumento
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What is biotechnology, scientific advances, what changes are on the horizon. 510 pages. Book in near fine condition ex library with stamps on back endpaper. Dust jacket in near fine condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.
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The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
by E O Wilson
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An appeal to save life on earth. 175 pages with illustrations and drawings throughout the text. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamp on first and last page. Dust jacket in very good+ condition in clear wrapper with stickers.
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The Egg & Sperm Race: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth
by Matthew Cobb
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The story of how we discovered the decisive components of the complex chain of reproduction - the existence of spermatozoa and of the human egg and the key processes involved in the development of the embryo. Scientists also realised that human conception is merely one example of reproduction and development of life. 333 pages with about 35 illustrations. Book in very good+ condition with some tanning. Dust jacket in very good+ condition.
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Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
by Michael Denton
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How did the major groups of plants and animals arise? Is Nature fundamentally discontinuous with no need for intermediate species as proposed by the theory of evolution. 368 pages with figures throughout the text. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker on title page, reference on back endpaper and borrowing sleeve remnants inside back cover. Dust jacket in good+ condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back and small chip bottom back.
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The Evolution of Living Organisms
by G W Leeper (Editor)
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A Symposium to mark the Centenary of Darwin's 'Origin of Species' and of the Royal Society of Victoria held in Melbourne, December 1959. Divided into two parts; Part 1 - Evolution and Selection (20 contributions). Part 2 - The Evolution of Australasian Fauna and Flora (16 contributions). 459 pages with tables, figures and plates throughout. Book in very good+ condition with light tanning. Dust jacket in very good condition with five small tears, some minor knocks, some fading to spine and sticker on front (see photo).
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How the Leopard Changed Its Spots, the evolution of complexity
by Brian Goodwin
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The emergence of biological forms in evolution, particularly the origin and nature of the characteristics that distinguishes different types of organism - the large scale aspects of biological form rather than small scale, local adaptations put forward by Darwin. 233 pages with 8 pages of colour illustrations and figures throughout the text. Book in very good+ condition.
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Impossible Extinction, Natural catastrophes and the supremacy of the microbial world
by Charles S Cockell
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A tour of the microbial world, from the coldest and deepest places on Earth to the hottest and highest, and witnesses some of the most catastrophic events life can face - how microbes have survived on Earth for over three billion years. 181 pages with 27 figures. Book in near fine condition ex library with stamp on first and last page. Dust jacket in near fine condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.
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The Life of Vertebrates
by J Z Young
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The life and evolution of vertebrates - a combined account of the embryology, physiology, biochemistry, palaeontology, and ecology of all vertebrates. 820 pages with 514 Figures in the text. Book in very good condition with previous owners name inside front cover. Cover has some wear (see photos).
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Man and the Vertebrates: 1 and 2
by A S Romer
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Book in two volumes with Volume 1 tracing the main steps in the story of evolution from fish to man and the evolution of various other groups of other animals. Volume 2 deals with human origins and races. Volume 1 pages 1 - 198 with 64 pages of plates and line drawings throughout the text.Volume 2 pages 199 - 437 including the Index for both volumes with 64 pages of plates and line drawings throughout the text.Vol 1 1965 in good condition with previous owners name on first page , sticky tape marks on front and back endpapers, water? stain on small section of leading edge, tanning and small piece missing top of title page and top back cover which also shows some wear.Vol 2 1963 in good+ condition with previous owners name on first page and some tanning. Price is for both volumes.
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Man and The Animal World
by Bernal R Weimer
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Organisms of the animal world are dynamic living entities, manifesting in various ways the fundamental life phenomena common to all living animals including Man - a balance is sought between zoology and the practical aspects of the animal kingdom. 569 pages with 16 colour plates and 295 Figures. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners name and address on front endpaper and small booksellers sticker inside front cover. Cover has minor wear (see photo). No dust jacket.
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The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia Part 1
by H B S Womersley
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The marine flora of southern Australia - the description of the known species of seagrasses and other attached plant species. 329 pages with 16 pages of coloured plates and over 100 figures. Book in very good+ condition.
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Mosquito: A natural history of our most persistent and deadly foe
by Andrew Spielman and Michael DÁntonio
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A comprehensive portrait of the mosquito, its role in history and its threat to mankind. Diseases spread by mosquitos affect ten percent of the world's population. 247 pages with 8 pages of colour photographs. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamp on front and back inside cover and two stamps on last page. Dust jacket in very good+ condition (see photo).
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Native Trees of South Australia
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An illustrated description of the native trees and mallees of South Australia, primary as an aid to their identification, for which purpose three keys identification in the field have been provided, two for the non Eucalyptus species and the third for the 73 species, subspecies and varieties of Eucalyptus. 288 pages with illustrations throughout. Book in very good+ condition with minor wear.
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Nature of Australia: A portrait of the island continent
by John Vandenbeld
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Accompanied by a wealth of splendid photographs and other illustrations, the book gives a lucid and engrossing account of the making of Australia and its marvels. 292 pages with colour illustrations on most pages. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition with brief inscription to previous owner on front endpaper.
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Organismic Evolution
by Verne Grant
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The processes that bring about evolutionary changes in organisms and the principle factors that affect those processes. 418 pages with 36 figures and 38 tables in the text. Book in near fine condition with top corner of front endpaper cut off otherwise fine. No dust jacket.
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Out of the Earth
by Daniel Hillel
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How soil is formed, its over use by early civilizations, its misuse in modern times, and the need to nurture it before it is too late. 321 pages. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamps on back endpaper. Dust jacket in very good+ condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back
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