Embryology and Evolution

Description:

First edition.This book presents the author's ideas on the developmental theory of evolution. 'In a series of remarkable books that established the synthetic theory of evolution, Gavin de Beer's Embryology and evolution was the first and the shortest (1930; expanded and retitled Embryos and ancestors, 1940; 3rd ed 1958). In 116 pages de Beer brought embryology into the developing orthodoxy... for more than forty years, this book has dominated English thought on the relationship between ontogeny and phylogeny.' - Stephen Jay Gould (1977) Ontogeny and Phylogeny.

Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer (1899-1972) was a British zoologist and director of the British Museum (Natural History).

Condition

Sm. 8vo, orig. cloth. From an institutional library with a few neat ink stamps. Bookplate of James Marmaduke Edmonds (1909-1982), British geologist, Curator of the Geological Collections of the Museum at Oxford between 1955-1976, and founder of the Oxford Geology Group.