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768 entries match Natural History & Evolution [K01.900.500]
1935
#9184
Tiergeographie des Meeres.
An analysis of all pertinent literature on marine animal distribution. Second edition published as English translation: Zoogeography of the sea (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1953).
1936
#258
The great chain of being: A study of the history of an idea.
1936
#8978
Physiologus. Ed. F. Sbordóne.
Physiologus, a didactic Christian text, is thought to have been written or compiled in Greek by an unknown author in Alexandria, 200-275 CE. It describes a "hodgepodge" of animals, real and imaginery, with the fig tre…
1936
#11502
Hominidae fossiles. Edited by W. Quenstedt.
Fossilium catalogus, I: Animalia (ed. W. Quenstedt), part 74. “This volume has been prepared under the critical editorship of Dr. Werner Quenstedt, as a work in cooperation with the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the…
1937
#254.2
Genetics and the origin of species.
Dobzhansky, an emigrant from the Soviet Union to the United States, and a postdoctoral worker in Thomas Hunt Morgan's fruit fly lab, was one of the first to apply genetics to natural populations. He worked mostly with…
1937 –1939
#7259
The stone age of Mount Carmel. Volume I: Excavations at the Wady el-Mughara. Volume II: The fossil remains from the Lavalloiso-Mousterian.
Garrod carried out her landmark excavations of the el-Wad, el-Tabun and es-Skhul caves on the hills of Mount Carmel, close to Wadi el-Mugharah (Valley of the Caves) between 1929 and 1934. Her monograph on the subject …
1937
#8594
Dr. Bodo Otto and the medical background of the American revolution by James E. Gibson.
Oddo, born in Germany, is one of the better-known American surgeons in the American revolutionary war; however he published nothing and is primarily known from this biography.
1938
#7281
The Pleistocene anthropoid apes of South Africa.
Paranthropus robustus, discovered by Broom in Kromdraal, South Africa, in 1938. The species is generally dated from about 2 million to 1.2 million years before present.
1938
#11771
Bird books and bird art: An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology, based principally on the collection of books containing plates with figures of birds and their eggs now in the University Library at Copenhagen and including a catalogue of these works.
This bibliography is distinctive for its very detailed annotations.
1939
#8527
Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial. Vol. 2, Fascicule 2: Médecine et histoire naturelle. Compiled by Hartwig Derenbourg, edited by Henri Paul Joseph Renaud.
1940
#7719
Adaptive coloration in animals. With an introduction by Julian S. Huxley.
Published during WWII, Cott's book was the first major work on camouflage in zoology, appreciated by zoologists for its scientific information and carried by many allied soldiers during the war for survival purposes. …
1940 –1993
#10743
Bibliography of fossil vertebrates: The indexed published literature of vertebrate paleontology, 1509-1993.
http://vertpaleo.org/Publications/Bibliography-of-Fossil-Vertebrates.aspx "The Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates (BFV) aimed to index the world literature of vertebrate paleontology. Although no compilation can ever …
1940
#11401
Découverte d'une remarkable grotte ornée, au domaine de Lascaux, Montignac (Dordogne).
Lascaux, which has been called "The Sistine Chapel of the Paleolithic", was discovered on September 12, 1940 by 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat when his dog, Robot, fell into a hole. Ravidar returned to the cave with three…
1941
#11000
The medical reports of John Y. Bassett, M.D., the Alabama student. Edited by Daniel C. Elkin.
Bassett was the subject of William Osler's famous essay, "An Alabama Student."
1941
#13027
Kanon der Erdbestrahlung und seine Anwendung auf das Eiszeitenproblem.
Milanković’s masterwork on his astronomical theory of climate, which brought together all the mathematical elements underlying the theory of “Milanković cycles.” Milanković cycles are cyclical changes in a planet’s cl…
1942
#255
Evolution: The modern synthesis.
The work which defined the modern synthesis of evolutionary biology of the early 20th century.
1942
#255.1
Systematics and the origin of species.
One of the canonical publications of the modern evolutionary synthesis. Mayr discussed the different ways different investigators identify species, and he characterized these different approaches as different species …
1942
#9824
The United States Exploring Expedition and its publications, 1844–1874: A bibliography
Reprinted with additions and corrections from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of February 1940 and January, July and October 1941.
1943
#214
The skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis: A comparative study on a primitive hominid skull.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1943
#9352
The art of falconry, being the De arte venandi cum avibus of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen.
English translation of the six-book version of Frederick's work, edited, with numerous appendices, illustrations, and an annotated bibliography of ancient, medieval and modern falconry, by Casey A. Wood and F. Marjori…
1943
#12123
Correspondence inédite entre Réaumur et Abraham Trembley, comprenant 113 lettres, recueillies et annotées par Maurice Trembley. Introduction par Emile Guyenot.
1944
#255.2
Tempo and mode in evolution.
Simpson's seminal contribution to the modern evolutionary synthesis integrated the facts of paleontology with those of genetics and natural selection. "Simpson argued that the microevolution of population genetics was…
1944
#9032
Global Epidemiology: A geography of disease and sanitation. Vol. 1: India and the Far East/The Pacific Area; Vol. 2: Africa and the Adjacent Islands; Vol. 3: The Near and Middle East. Edited by James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, Harold Maclachlan Horack... and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Service.
1946
#214.1
Pretoria: The South African fossil ape-men. The Australopithecinae. Part I. The occurrence and general structure of the South African ape-men.
With this comprehensive report Broom presented his case to the scientific establishment that Australopithecus probably represented the stock from which mankind had evolved.
1947
#356.1
English naturalists from Neckham to Ray.
1947
#10216
The ranks of death: A medical history of the conquest of America
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1948
#9179
The geographical distribution of cold-blooded vertebrates.
"Darlington's most important contribution to science was his theory of the Old World tropical origin of dominant vertebrate groups. He first sketched out this formulation—which would influence research in zoogeography…
1948 –1949
#11770
Bibliographie ornithologique française: [Vol.1:] Travaux publies en langue française et en latin en France et dans les Colonies Françaises de 1473 a 1944. [Vol. 2:] Abréviations des titres des publications périodiques cités dans la Bibliographie Ornithologique Française et Index méthodiques et systématiques. 2 vols.
1949
#352
History of the primates.
1949
#6596
Aesculapius comes to the Colonies. The story of the early days of medicine in the thirteen original colonies.
1949
#7297
Age determinations by radiocarbon content: checks with samples of known age.
Introduction of radiocarbon dating for dating organic materials, including fossils (maximum 50,000 to 60,000 years old). With J. R. Arnold.
1949
#11102
Mushrooms in their natural habitats.
A distinctively published work illustrated stereoscopically with color View-Master slides, and incorporating the View-Master "reels" and a View-Master viewer in a box along with the conventional bound text.
1950
#9185
Variation and evolution in plants.
The first comprehensive exposition of the relationship between genetics and natural selection in plants, and the most imporant book on plant evolution published during the 20th century. Stebbins combined genetics and …
1950
#13912
Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating prehistoric man in health and sickness. With an introduction by E. Ashworth Underwood.
1951
#7114
Schöne Fischbücher: kurze Geschichte der ichthyologischen Illustrationen; Bibliographie fischkundlicher Abbildungswerke.
1951
#8202
Genesis and geology: A study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850.
New edition, with a foreward by Nicolaas A. Rupke and a new preface by the author (1996).
1951
#10616
Inherit the wind.
This play about the Scopes Trial that concerned creationism versus evolution was the subject of numerous film adaptations including the most famous one first screened in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.
1952 –1961
#9033
World-atlas of epidemic diseases. Welt-Seuchen-Atlas: Weltatlas der Seuchenverbreitung und Seuchenbeweng. In collaboration with Richard-Ernst Bader ... [et al.]. Edited by Ernst Rodenwaldt; assistant scientific editors: Ludwig Bachmann, Helmut J. Jusatz. Organization, Heinz Dörrfuss. Cartography, Konrad Voppel, in cooperation with Fritz Hölzel and Henry Petersen. Sponsorship, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., Washington, D.C. 3 vols.
In English and German.
1953
#7264
The Piltdown Forgery.
Fiftieth anniversary edition with a new introduction and afterward by Chris Stringer (Oxford University Press, 2003).
1953
#7301
The solution of the Piltdown problem.
Exposure of the Piltdown fraud. Weiner, Oakley and Le Gros Clark found ample evidence of forgery in the Piltdown remains, including the use of artificial abrasion and staining; they also applied fluorine and nitrogen …
1954
#11887
Protection afforded by sickle-cell trait against subtertian malarial infection.
Allison was the first to connect a hereditary disease (sickle cell disease) to an infectious disease (malaria). He proved that heterozygous and homozygous individuals to the sickle cell trait or disease respectively s…
1956
#14065
Character displacement.
In this paper Brown and Wilson defined character displacement as follows: "Two closely related species have overlapping ranges. In the parts of the ranges where one species occurs alone, the populations of that specie…
1958
#8993
Darwin's century: Evolution and the men who discovered it.
An elegantly written and profound book that was a powerful influence to my own intellectual development when I read it in 1958; it also a great inspiration for me to study the history of evolution and biology. "Eisele…
1958
#10683
The Banks letters: A calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum, the British Museum (Natural History) and other collections in Great Britain.
1959
#7288
A new fossil from Olduvai.
In 1959 Mary Leakey discovered the "Zinj" skull (OH 5) at Olduvai Gorge. This became the type specimen for Paranthropus boisei, arguably the most famous early human fossil from Olduvai in Northern Tanzania. The specie…
1960
#10569
A bibliography of British Lepidoptera, 1608-1799.
Bibliography of British works on butterflies and moths from the early seventeenth to late eighteenth centuries. Includes biographical information on the authors covered. Plates are mainly portraits of the authors.
1960
#11202
A bibliography of Dr. Robert Hooke by Geoffrey Keynes, Kt.
1961
#214.2
Age of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika.
Introduction of the potassium-argon dating method to paleoanthropology, showing that lava at the base of the site of Olduvai Gorge was about 1.8 million years old, and proving that fossils, Australopithecus (Zinjanthr…
1963
#13033
Animal species and evolution.
Condensed and extensively revised as Populations, species and evolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970.
1964
#7263