Distribution and Origin of Life in America [William Homan Thorpe's Copy]
by Scharff, Robert Francis
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- Condition
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About This Item
London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1911. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xvi, 497pp. Octavo. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Binding a touch shaken. Light shelfwear and bumping to corners and head and tail of spine. Front and bottom edge uncut. Endpapers age-toned, else internally clean. With ownership signature of W.H. Thorpe to ffep. very good William Homan Thorpe's copy of this treatise on the distribution of animals. Prior to the understanding of plate tectonics in the 1960s, zoologists were largely at a loss to explain the global distribution of animals. This book attempts to explain distributions across continents with ancient land bridges connecting the continents. W.H. Thorpe was an influential British zoologist at the University of Cambridge who helped to advance behavioural biology and ecology. 1911
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- Aquila Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 135889
- Title
- Distribution and Origin of Life in America [William Homan Thorpe's Copy]
- Author
- Scharff, Robert Francis
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Constable & Company Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- Biology|Distribution of Animals|Ecology and Environment|Geology|Natural History|William Homan Thorpe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
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- Octavo
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- Tail
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- Shelfwear
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- Gilt
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