Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication, No. 25.

Published by Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, August, 1905.

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xii, 269 pp; 3 color plates; 2 maps (labelled plate A and plate B). Contemporary 1/4-leather and cloth, with original printed wrappers bound in at back. University of London stamped in gilt at bottom of spine. University of London bookplate. Small ink stamp of University of London on verso of title page. Aside from these library markings, Very Good. First Edition. "After his retirement Gulick wrote out a larger statement of his evolutionary ideas, Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal (1905) [offered here]. This work incorporated his efforts to apply the mathematical theory of probability to his evolutionary problems and introduced principles for understanding the development of human civilization analogous to, but distinct from, those applicable to biological evolution. Born in the year of Cuvier s death [1832], Gulick lived to see--and applaud--the introduction of Mendelism in biology. His career spanned and exemplified first the age of the naturalist explorers, then the period of ambitious and often contentious evolutionary theorizing that marked the decades around 1900. Viewed as a revisionist by some Darwinians, Gulick nevertheless remained loyal to Darwinian natural selection in the face of challenges from de Vries's mutation theory and other quarters after 1900. His emphasis on isolation as a necessary complement to selection helped open the way for studies that formed part of the synthetic theory of evolution" (John E. Lesch, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 17: 372-373).…

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Title
Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication, No. 25.
Author
GULICK, Rev. John T.
Publisher
Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, August, 1905.
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

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