DARWIN
Written by Adrian Desmond; James Moore.
Stock no. 1831418
Published by Michael Joseph Ltd. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life, worries about persecution and thoughts about God. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos & illustrations. xxi and 807 pages including index. ISBN: 0718134303. Light bump to top rear corner. Text block a little grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots present, mainly to endpapers and prelims. Pictorial dustwrapper is clean.

RECONSTRUCTING BEHAVIOR IN THE PRIMATE FOSSIL RECORD
Written by J. Michael Plavcan; Richard F. Kay; William L. Jungers; Carel P. Van Schaik.
Stock no. 1831164
Published by Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers. 1st 2002. Almost very good condition.

Advances in Primatology series. Edited by Plavcan, Kay, Jungers, and van Schaik. This volume brings together a series of papers that address the topic of reconstructing behavior in the primate fossil record. Black pictorial glazed boards. xi and 437 pages including index. ISBN: 030646604x. Ex-lib with library marking to prelims, text block and some page margins. Else contents clean. Boards are a little scuffed and lightly rubbed at corners.

THE DESCENT OF MAN AND SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX
Written by Charles Darwin; Richard Dawkins.
Stock no. 1830231
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2008. Slightly better than very good condition.

Introduction by Richard Dawkins. Attractive green and gilt pictorial cloth. Colour illustrations. Top edge green. xlvii and 727 pages including index. Couple of minor corner creases to contents else a lovely copy. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

THE WORLD BEFORE US: HOW SCIENCE IS REVEALING A NEW STORY OF OUR HUMAN ORIGINS
Written by Tom Higham.
Stock no. 1829405
Published by Viking. 1st 2021. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Following the scientific and technological advancements - in radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA, for example - that enabled us to better predict not just how long ago other human species lived (Neanderthals, Denisovans, 'Hobbits' and Homo luzonensis), but how they lived. Could they make art, recall their dreams, or joke? Did they play music, or use medicine? What might Homo sapiens have learned from them? Yellow cloth boards, black title to spine. B/w photos and charts, a few colour photos. xiv and 296 pages including index. ISBN: 9780241440674. A lovely copy. Black dustwrapper is scuffed.

40 YEARS OF EVOLUTION: DARWIN'S FINCHES ON DAPHNE MAJOR ISLAND
Written by Peter R. Grant; B. Rosemary Grant.
Stock no. 1829027
Published by Princeton University Press. 1st 2014. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

By continuously tracking finch populations over a period of four decades, the authors uncover the causes and consequences of significant events leading to evolutionary changes in species. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Beige speckled endpapers. Colour photos and graphs. xxxii and 400 pages including index. ISBN: 9780691160467. Light scuffing to boards. A few small foxspots to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE
Written by Richard Dawkins. Illustrated by Lalla Ward.
Stock no. 1824403
Published by Viking. 1996. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The combination of perfection and improbablity that is epitomised in the seemingly designed perfection living things. Black boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0670850187. Second printing. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. B/w plates were stuck together and now prised apart giving surface paper damage and also imprinting of the facing page. Minor foxing to text block. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

FISH DIVERSITY OF JAPAN: EVOLUTION, ZOOGEOGRAPHY, AND CONSERVATION
Written by Yoshiaki Kai; Hiroyuki Motomura; Keiichi Matsuura.
Stock no. 2140432
Published by Springer. Circa 2022. Fine condition.

This book reviews and summarizes the studies on the fish diversity of Japan. ISBN: 9789811674266. Still in original shrink wrap - UNREAD.

EVOLUTION FROM THE GALAPAGOS TWO CENTURIES AFTER DARWIN
Written by Gabriel Trueba; Carlos Montufar.
Stock no. 1323034
Published by Springer. 1st 2013. Slightly better than very good condition.

Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands. Glazed boards. 168 pages. Diagrams. ISBN: 9781461467311. Slight wear to lower spine and corners. Barcode sticker to rear cover. Contents fine.

BRITISH FRESHWATER FISHES
Written by Len Cacutt.
Stock no. 2126502
Published by Croom Helm. 1st 1979. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of their evolution. B/w photos. ISBN: 0856643203. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few chips and faded to spine.

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
Written by Michael Ruse; Robert J. Richards.
Stock no. 1606009
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 2009. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. 395 pages including index. ISBN: 9780521691291. Black felt pen mark to edge of textblock.

UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF SCIENCE
Written by A.W. Haslett.
Stock no. 811774
Published by G. Bell & Sons Ltd.. 1936. Almost very good condition.

The idea of this book came from a series of four short articles published under the same title in the Morning Post. These articles suggest that a book might usefully be devoted to a discussion of those aspects of scientific inquiry in which major problems still await solution. Green cloth, gilt titles. xi and 317 pages including index. Reprint. Top of spine frayed with slight loss. Text block browned. Prelims foxed and a few scattered foxspots to contents. Neat name in red pencil to title page.