On Evolution
by Smith, John Maynard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0852242298
- ISBN 13
- 9780852242292
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. (1972). First Edition. Hardcover. 0852242298 . Ex-library. Library stamps, labels and markings. Large chips and abrasions to blank rear flap of endpaper. Adhesive residue to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; viii, 125, [3 (blank)] pages. Grey boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 197 x 116mm. "This book comprises a selection of papers, most of which first appeared in journals or proceedings. All are concerned with evolution theory." - page vii. Contents: Introduction; Game Theory and the Evolution of Fighting; The Importance of the Nervous System in the Evolution of Animal Flight; Evolution and History; The Arrangement of Bristles in Drosophila (with K. C. Sondhi); Eugenics and Utopia; The Status of Neo-Darwinism; Time in the Evolutionary Process; The Causes of Polymorphism; The Origin and Maintenance of Sex. .
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 25503
- Title
- On Evolution
- Author
- Smith, John Maynard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0852242298
- ISBN 13
- 9780852242292
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- (1972)
- Keywords
- 0852242298
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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