Somatic Selection Adaptive Evolution by Steele (41 results)

Condition: Good. No jacket. A few dirty amrks and slight shelf wear on cover. Also a name and date has been handwritten on first blank page but content is fine.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0709923090.

Condition: Good. Good condition. 2nd edition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Second Edition. 134 pages, w/figure illustrations. Reading copy only. Interior is tight and clean, but exterior page edges and front cover have numbers written with magic marker. Good for use, but not good for appearance.

Condition: New. In.

Croom Helm Ltd.London 1980. 90, (1) pp. Hardcover with d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 6 leaves, 90 pp, 1 leaf; 6 text figures. Original cloth. Very Good, in dust jacket. Tape on dust jacket. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First British Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG; strong & sound w/edge rubs & trace surface wear. First published 1979; this is the 1981 2nd Edition, 1st Printing w/a new Postscript from author. Fascinating reveiw of E.J. Steele (1744 - 1829), early proponent of the idea that biological evolution, from studies of plants, can & do, occur in plant life, separately from use of DNA, following natural laws --- that is, if plant organisms transmit "acquired characteriscs" during their lifetimes to their offsprings hwat of that of that of animal life???

London 1979, 90 pp., dust jacket b373.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 91pp., text ills., appendix, bibliog., Chapters inc. Lamarck in Perspective; Central Paradox of Immunology; Somatic Selection Hypothesis; Implications and Conclusions; Speculations on Man, Mind and Matter. Nice copy in slightly chipped dust jacket.

Toronto: Williams and Wallace International, 1979. Cloth and printed dust jacket, illustrated, 91 pp. On the inheritance of acquired characters. E.O. Wilson's name stamp on fore-edge; laid in is a page of the journal "Nature", 20 November 1980 with a review of this book and Wilson s note: 1 copy please . Also laid in is a page from the March 22, 1981 "New York Times" with a lengthy article by Sir Peter Medawar, The View from the Heights of Immunology , and a postscript, New Evolutionary Mechanism , that addresses the recent Steele findings that an acquired immunological adaptation of mice could be passed on to their progeny Medawar s lab was unable to reproduce Steele s results, but that the people repeating his work were somewhat prejudiced; they would have liked to have found his story to be true, for this would have made us rethink our conventional ideas about the mechanism of evolution. In Very Good condition.