The Case of the Midwife Toad
by Koestler, Arthur
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Book VG+: toning/offset to endpapers, touch of shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./DJ G: mild age wear, small closed tear at top of spine, clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0394480376
- ISBN 13
- 9780394480374
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1971. first American edition. hardcover. Book VG+: toning/offset to endpapers, touch of shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./DJ G: mild age wear, small closed tear at top of spine, clipped. 8vo 187pp. first American edition with number line to 2 as standard for Random House. from front flap: "On September 23, 1926, an Austrian experimental biologist named Dr. Paul Kammerer blew his brains out on a footpath in the Austrian mountains. His suicide was the climax of a great evolutionary controversy which his experiments had aroused. The battle was between the followers of Lamarck, who maintained that acquired characteristics could be inherited, and the neo-Darwinists, who upheld the theory of chance mutations preserved by natural selection. Dr. Kammerer's experiments with various amphibians, including salamanders and the midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans), lent much weight to the Lamarckian argument and drew upon him the full fury of the orthodox neo-Darwinists. Arthur Koestler had known about Dr. Kammerer's work when he himself was a student in Vienna, and he has always been interested in this tragic story." #01931.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1869
- Title
- The Case of the Midwife Toad
- Author
- Koestler, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG+: toning/offset to endpapers, touch of shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight.
- Jacket Condition
- DJ G: mild age wear, small closed tear at top of spine, clipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394480376
- ISBN 13
- 9780394480374
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Lamarck, Darwin, neo Darwinism, midwife toad, koestler, nonfiction, science, history, first edition
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