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768 entries match Natural History & Evolution [K01.900.500]
1983
#214.91
The establishment of human antiquity.
The most complete historical treatment of the pre-1900 literature.
1983 –1991
#8945
Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. 2 vols. in 3.
"Vol. I, edited by Susanne Koppel, describes 684 works dating from the discovery of Brazil to the nineteenth century, on history, politics, literature, ethnology, geography, climate, botany, zoology and medicine. The …
1984
#258.13
Evolution: The history of an idea.
Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, 2009.
1984
#7272
The origins of modern humans: A world survey of the fossil evidence.
An historical and analytical review of the literature up to 1984, with detailed bibliographies, by several outstanding authorities, edited by Smith and Spencer. Includes, pp. 411-483, Milford H. Wolpott, Wu Xin Zhi, a…
1984
#11225
Seed physiology: Its history from antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century.
1985
#7273
History of physical anthropology in Southern Africa.
1985
#7284
Early Homo erectus skeleton from west Lake Turkana, Kenya.
The Turkana Boy, (KNM-WT 15000) now called Nariokotome Boy, a Homo erectus fossil which was in 2016 the most complete early human skeleton found. It is a nearly complete skeleton of a hominin youth believed to be 1.5 …
1986
#4158.3
Introduction to the history of medical and veterinary mycology.
Authoritative and well-illustrated history with excellent chronological bibliography.
1986
#6979
Ecce Homo: An annotated bibliographic history of physical anthropology.
1986
#7283
The origin of the human race.
First publication in English by Alekseyev of Homo rudolfensis, primarily known from KNM-ER 1470, discovered in Koobi Fora in the Lake Turkana basin, Kenya. Alekseyev (Alexeev) first proposed the species in 1978, initi…
1986
#7680
Natural history and the new world, 1524-1770. An annotated bibliography of printed materials in the library of the American Philosophical Society.
1986
#10649
Theories of human evolution: A century of debate, 1844-1944.
1986
#12999
Hendrik Engel's alphabetical list of Dutch zoological cabinets and menageries . Second, enlarged edition prepared by Pieter Smith with the assistance of A. P. M. Sanders and J. P. F. van der Veer.
Digital facsimile from dwc.knaw.nl at this link. Originally published in Bijdragen tot de dierkunde, v. 27, 1939.
1986
#13784
Of birds and Texas.
Inspired by Audubon's double elephant folios, the first edition was limited to 500 sets and 25 artists' copies, signed by Scott Gentling and John Graves. Folio (28 x 22 inches). 40 chromolithographed plates of birds a…
1987
#7256
Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution.
Cann's discovery that all living humans are genetically descended from a single African mother, known as Mitochrondrial Eve, who lived <200,000 years ago, became the foundation of the Out of Africa theory, the most wi…
1987
#10897
Natural science collections in Scotland: Botany, geology, zoology.
1987
#12124
Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur
1987
#12211
The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French biology in the decades before Darwin.
"...no event better represents the contest between form and function as the chief organizing principle of life as the debate between Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This book presents the first comp…
1987
#13470
Charles Darwin's notebooks 1836-1844. Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. Transcribed and edited by Paul H. Barrett, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn, Sydney Smith.
1989
#7071
Evolution of the brain: Creation of the self.
A pioneering work on the evolution of the human mind. Eccles synthesized comparative anatomy--especially brain anatomy--with evidence from paleontology and archaeology, and brain physiology (especially the physiology …
1990
#7025
Plant, animal & anatomical illustration in art & science: A bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day.
The first comprehensive listing of primary instructional or "how to draw" books, and non-scientific iconographical "pattern" books, published for artists and designers in the widest range of subjects concerning plants…
1990
#11232
Nehemiah Grew: A study and bibliography of his writings
1991
#8990
The dawn of Darwinian medicine.
"While evolution by natural selection has long been a foundation for biomedical science, it has recently gained new power to explain many aspects of disease. This progress results largely from the disciplined applicat…
1992
#7410
The medieval book of birds: Hugh of Fouilloy's Aviarium. Edition, translation and commentary by Willene B. Clark.
1992
#7570
Finders, Keepers: Eight collectors.
A spectacular book on eight medical and natural history museums: text by Gould, superbly reproduced dramatic photographs by Purcell. Chapter 1: "Dutch treat: Peter the Great and Frederik Ruysch".
1994
#6980
Pour une histoire de la préhistoire. Le paléolithique.
1994
#7276
Australopithecus ramidus, a new species of early hominid from Aramis, Ethiopia.
Between 1992 and 1994 White and his team discovered the first Ardipithecus ramidus fossils in the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia. They named their discovery Ardipithecus ramidus (‘ramid’ means ‘root’ in the Afar langua…
1994
#8462
Hortus Eystettensis: The bishop's garden and Besler's magnificent book.
1994
#8538
The history and geography of human genes.
The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…
1994
#8989
Evolution of infectious disease.
1994
#8991
Why we get sick: The new science of Darwinian medicine.
1994
#9187
Plant allometry: The scaling of form and process.
The first book to apply allometry— one definition of which is the study of the growth rate of an organism's parts in relation to the whole — to studies of the evolution, morphology, physiology, and reproduction of pla…
1994
#9608
Ancient natural history: Histories of nature.
1995
#7278
New four-million-year-old hominid species from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya.
In 1965, a research team led by Bryan Patterson from Harvard University discovered a single arm bone (KNM-KP 271) of an early human at Kanapoi in northern Kenya, but without additional fossils Patterson could not conf…
1995
#7525
The earliest occupation of Europe. Proceedings of the European Science Foundation workshop at Tautavel (France) 1993.
The first effort to present summaries of the evidence for earliest occupation in all the regions of Europe including Russia, edited by Roebroeks and van Kolfschoten.
1995
#9929
La nutrition préhistorique.
1995
#11900
Biology takes form: Animal morphology and the German universities 1800-1900.
1996
#8926
Histoire naturelle des Indes. The Drake manuscript in The Pierpont Morgan Library.... Foreward by Patrick O'Brian. Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Translations by Ruth Kraemer.
"In 1983, The Morgan Library & Museum received, as the bequest of Clara S. Peck, an extraordinary volume whose beautiful paintings and descriptions document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in t…
1996
#9327
The origin and evolution of birds.
On the evolution of birds and avian flight. Feduccia is best known for his criticisms of the hypothesis, accepted by many paleontologists, that birds originated from and are deeply nested within Theropoda, and are the…
1996
#10019
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 2ème partie: Airs, eaux, lieux. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France).
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1996
#10435
The song of the Dodo: Island biogeography in an age of extinctions.
1996
#10646
Life's splendid drama: Evolutionary biology and the reconstruction of life's ancestry, 1860-1940.
1997
#6978
History of physical anthropology: An encyclopedia edited by Frank Spencer. 2 vols.
1997
#7285
A hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: possible ancestor to Neandertals and modern humans.
Homo antecessor, an extinct human species (or subspecies) dating from 1.2 million to 800,000 years ago, discovered in the Sierra de Atapuerca region of Northern Spain. With A. Rosas, I Martinez and M. Mosquera.
1998
#7269
Ancestral images: The iconography of human origins.
1998
#10099
The Huxley File. Created by Charles Blinderman and David Joyce.
https://mathcs.clarku.edu/huxley/ "Those merely interested in Huxley and scholars engaged in research on him, on Darwinism, on Victorian culture, on the history of science, and on topics such as those noted will find …
1998
#10434
Sarah Stone: Natural curiosities from the new worlds
1998
#10806
Medicine and the American Revolution: How diseases and their treatments affected the colonial army.
1999
#7562
Voyages of discovery: Three centuries of natural history exploration.
Spectacular color images including many of original paintings and manuscripts.
1999
#8563