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Books on Evolution

Evolution by Natural Selection

By Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Pp. viii + 288. (London: Cambridge University Press, 1958. Published for the XV International Congress of Zoology and the Linnean Society of London.) 25s. net.

Darwin's Century

Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It. By Prof. Loren Eiseley., Pp. xvii + 378. (New York: Double-day and Company, Inc., 1958.) 5 dollars.

A Century of Darwin

Edited by S. A. Barnett., Pp. xvi + 376 + 5 plates. (London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1958.) 30s. net.

Embryos and Ancestors

By Sir Gavin de Beer. Third edition. Pp. xii + 197. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1958.) 25s. net.

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CARTER, G. Books on Evolution. Nature 182, 1112–1113 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821112a0

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