The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance by Mayr, Ernst - 1982

Cambridge,MA: Belknap/Harvard, 1982. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. Large thiick octavo, brown and green stiff wraps (trade paperback). 974 pp. including extensive index, references and notes. From the back panel "Ten uyears in preparation, this is a work of epic proportions, tracing the developments of the major problems of biology, from the earliest attempts to find order in the diversity of life, to modern research into the mechanisms of gene transmission." A seminal classic and standard work in the field. This copy is in excellent condition, with the barest hint of dampstain on the very edge of the half-title, the book is otherwise, tight, square, unmarked, unblemished and apparently unread, with a flat uncreased spine, glossy cover, no creases, tears, soil, etc. Fine. Virtually as new..