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‎Charles Darwin and his World (Evolution)‎

‎Book Club Associates, London Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1974 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, under editor's white dust-jacket, illustrated by a black and white portrait of Darwin with a hat small In-4 1 vol. - 144 pages‎

‎numerous black and white illustrations on the life of Charles Darwin, drawings, figures, photographies and fac-simile 1974 edition (Book Club Associates) "Contents, Chapitres : Introduction - The prelude, 1809-1831 - The experience : The Voyage of the Beagle, 1831-1836 - The synthesis, 1836-1882 - Conclusion - Chronology - Notes on the pictures - Index - Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell (born February 24, 1907; died May 11, 1979) was a British geneticist, lepidopterist and medical doctor, who performed research of the influence of industrial mecanism on natural selection of moths, showing why moths are darker in polluted areas. - Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS[1] (22 June 1887 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (19351942), the first Director of UNESCO, and a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund. (source : Wikipedia)" near fine copy, no markings, dust-jacket very lightly yellowing, else near fine, very lightly folded on the top part, inside is fine‎