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768 entries match Natural History & Evolution [K01.900.500]
1964
#7270
A new species of the genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge.
First report on Homo habilis.
1965
#9598
Bio-bibliographie de quelques médecins naturalistes voyageurs de la marine au début du XIXe siècle. Colloque International sur L'Histoire de la Biologie Marine. Les grandes expéditions scientifiques et la création des laboratoires maritimes. 2-6 septembre 1963. Supplément no. 19 à "Vie et Milieu", pp. 163-223.
1966 –1978
#358
Die zoologische Buchillustration. Ihre Bibliographie und Geschichte. 2 vols.
The most comprehensive history and historical bibliography of zoological illustration.
1966
#7299
Potassium-Argon dating by activation with fast neutrons.
Argon 40-argon 39 dating (Argon-argon dating). Astrophysicist Merrihue died in a mount-climbing accident at the age of 32.
1966
#8992
Adaptation and natural selection: A Critique of some current evolutionary thought.
1966
#11090
Les main mutilées dans l'art prehistorique.
A comprehensive study by a physician of the numerous tracings and impressions of mutilated hands that appear in prehistoric painted caves or parietal art.
1966
#12801
The original water-color paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America. Reproduced in color from the collection at The New York Historical Society. Introduction by Marshall B. Davidson. 2 vols.
First printed edition of the "virtually complete" series of original water-color paintings for Audubon's The Birds of America, preserved in The New York Historical Society.
1967
#8155
The theory of island biogeography.
MacArthur and Wilson showed that the species richness of an area could be predicted in terms of such factors as habitat area, immigration rate and extinction rate.
1968
#7282
Sur la decouverte dans le Pleistocene inferieur de la valle de l'Omo (Ethiopie) d'une mandibule d'Australopithecien.
In 1967 Arambourg and Coppens discovered Omo 18, the first specimen of Paranthropus aethiopicus, also known as Paraustralopithecus aethiopicus; however it's classification as a new species was initially dismissed. In …
1968
#7884
The evolution of preventive medicine in the United States Army, 1607–1939.
Available from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History, at this link.
1968
#9848
Soma: Divine mushroom of immortality.
Ethnomycologist and banker Wasson provided evidence for the important role that hallucinogenic mushrooms - in particular the ubiquitous mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) - play in various ancient and modern cultu…
1968
#11230
John Evelyn: A study in bibliopphily with a bibliography of his writings
Second edition, revised. First published in 1937 by The Grolier Club and Cambridge University Press.
1968
#13551
Evolutionary rate at the molecular level.
Using complex mathematics, Motoo Kimura calculated that genomes constantly undergo a remarkably high number of mutations per unit of time. He wrote, "Calculating the rate of evolution in terms of nucleotide substituti…
1969 –1975
#6786.15
The Cole Library of early medicine and zoology. Catalogue of books and pamphlets. 2 parts.
The library of F.J. Cole (see No. 356). Part 1: 1472-1800 to the present day and Supplement to Part 1.
1971
#6510.2
Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 3. Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde bis ca. 430 H.
1971
#9469
Outcasts from evolution: Scientific attitudes of racial inferiority, 1859 - 1900.
1972
#7585
"Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism." IN: T.J.M. Schopf, ed., Models in Paleobiology.
The theory of punctuated equilibrium or punctuated equilibria in evolution. This theory argues that once species appeared in the the fossil record they became stable, showing little net evolutionary change for most of…
1972
#10505
Medical geography: Techniques and field studies. Ediited by N. D. McGlashan
Chapter 5: "Computers and mapping in medical geography" by R. W. Armstrong appears to be one of the earliest reviews of this subject.
1972
#12526
Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam.(Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abteilung, Ergänzungsband VI, 2).
Concerns zoology, botany, mineralogy, alchemy, astrology, magic, agriculture, the largest section being devoted to alchemy.
1972
#13358
Studien zur Geschichte der Mineralnamen in Pharmazie, Chemie und Medizin von den Anfängen bis Paracelsus.
1973
#8621
Medical men at the siege of Boston, April, 1775- April, 1776.
1974
#8912
Darwin on man: A psychological study of scientific creativity by Howard E. Gruber. Together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett. Foreward by Jean Piaget.
In addition to a frequently original study of the development of Darwin's psychological theories, the authors publish for the first time two extremely significant manuscript notebooks by Darwin written in 1837. These …
1974
#10551
The Darwin correspondence project.
http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/" "Search over 12000 letters and articles..."
1975
#257.6
Sociobiology: The new synthesis.
Integration of biological and evolutionary theory with the study of social behavior and social organization of animal populations.
1975
#7302
Dating a stalactite by electron paramagnetic resonance.
Ikeya introduced electron spin resonance dating; the first application dated a speleothem in Akiyoshi Cave, Japan. See R. Grün and C. B. Stringer, "Electron spin resonance dating and the evolution of modern humans," A…
1975
#9961
La natura delle Indie Nove: Da Christoforo Colombo a Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo.
Translated into English by Jeremy Moyle as Nature in the new world: From Christopher Columbus to Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. Primarily a detailed analysis of the work…
1975
#11216
Conrad Gessner: A bio-bibliogaphy
1975
#13928
Darwinian evolution in the genealogy of haemoglobin.
In 1975 Goodman and his collaborators used sequence data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hemoglobin (including possible ancestral sequences) and analyze which sites on the hemoglobin complex had evolved at …
1976
#214.3
Plio-Pleistocene hominid discoveries in Hadar, Ethiopia.
Report on the Afar fossils (formally classified and named Australopithiecus afaranesis in 1998) representing a minimum of 35 and a maximum of 65 individuals, all about 3,000,000 years old. The most famous of these, AL…
1976
#8055
The naturalist in Britain: A social history.
1976
#8193
Islamic science: An Illustrated study.
Includes chapters on natural history, medicine and pharmacology, agriculture and irrigation, man and the natural environment.
1976
#11205
John Ray, 1627-1705: A bibliography, 1660-1970: A descriptive bibliography of the works of John Ray ... with introductions, annotations, various indexes, and a supplement of new entries, additions and corrections by the author, Sir Geoffrey Keynes.
This is the "best" edition. The original edition issued in London by Faber & Faber in 1951 was a far superior example of book production, printed on thick greenish paper.
1976
#11888
The resistance factor to Plasmodium vivax in blacks.
The authors showed that the Plasmodium vivax parasite requires the Fya/Fyb Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor on the surface of red blood cells for penetration of human red blood cells. Because most African and American…
1976
#13107
Natural history auctions 1700-1972. A register of sales in the British Isles compiled by J. M. Chalmers-Hunt. With articles by S. Peter Dance, Peter G. Embrey, W. D. Ian Rolfe, Clive Simson, William T. Stern, J. M. Chalmers-Hunt, Alwyne Wheeler.
Entomological sales by J.M. Chalmers-Hunt. Zoological Sales other than those of birds Insects and shells by Alwyne Wheeler Botanical Sales by William T. Stern Ornithology and Oology by Clive Simson Fossil Sales by W. …
1977
#9739
Conrad Gessner's "Historia animalium": An inventory of Renaissance zoology.
1977
#11208
Charles Darwin: An annotated bibliographical handlist
This bibliography has been extensively supplemented by the Freeman Bibliographical Database at Darwin Online edited by John van Wyhe. "The database has been supplemented by the entries from unpublished manuscript corr…
1977 –2019
#13018
Geographers biobibliographical studies. Vols. 1-38
Annual volumes edited by a changing group of experts. Ongoing.
1978
#2188.2
Naval and maritime medicine during the American revolution.
1978
#7277
A new species of the genus Australopithecus (Primates: Hominidae) from the Pliocene of Eastern Africa.
Johanson and colleagues formally named the species Afarensis of the genus Australopithecus in 1978.
1980
#6596.4
Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.
A well-illustrated collection of essays covering medicine in Massachusetts but also applicable in some cases to the history of medicine and surgery throughout the American colonies.
1980
#8988
Evolutionary biology and the treatment of signs and symptoms of infectious disease.
"When viewed from an evolutionary perspective, manifestations of infectious diseases can be classified as (1) adaptations of the host to counteract harmful aspects of the disease, (2) adaptations of the pathogen to ma…
1980
#11209
British natural history books, 1495-1900: A handlist.
A partially annotated listing of all principal natural history books published in the UK from 1495 to 1900.
1980
#14108
The striking resemblance of high-resolution G-banded chromosomes of man and chimpanzee.
Chimpanzees are the closest primates genetically to humans. In this paper the authors demonstrated the genetic changes that differentiated humans from chimpanzees. By comparing human and chimpanzee chromosomes the aut…
1980
#14366
The complete works of Vladimir Kovalevsky. Edited by Stephen Jay Gould.
The complete paleontological works written by Kovalevsky, as distinct from his famous translations of western books into Russian, including Darwin's The variation of animals and plants under domestication, Darwin's Th…
1981
#2188.3
The [United States] Army Medical Department, 1775-1818.
1981
#11681
Dr. Martin Lister: A bibliography by Geoffrey Keynes, Kt.
1982
#258.12
The growth of biological thought. Diversity, evolution, and inheritance.
An interpretive history of what Mayr calls “ultimate” explanations in biology, reflecting Mayr’s expertise in systematics, evolution, and genetics.
1982
#8187
Hippocratic heritage: A history of ideas about weather and human health.
The first historical survey of human biometeorology, tracing the evolution of the Hippocratic idea that weather is one of the dterminants of health from its ancient origins to time of writing.
1982
#11217
Fitzpatrick's Rafinesque: A sketch of his life with bibliography [of his writings]. Revised and enlarged by Charles Boewe.
See also Boewe's The life of C.S. Rafinesque a man of uncommon zeal. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2011.
1982
#11769