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Cloth. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Previous owners name to inside cover. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Couple of tears to top edge of D/J. Marks to D/J. The study of evolution is the study of the relationship between plants and animals living today and those of ages past; and amongst the animals, of course, we include man. it asks such questions as: What has been the pattern of life through time? How has the natural world as we know it today arisen? What can we learn about the future from the past? Above all, with excusable self-interest, we can ask: What are its implications for ourselves? In this book the reader starts on the path towards the answers to these questions. The evidence for evolution, the mechanism of inheritance of both the simliarities and differences of organisms, the concept of natural selection, the evolution of man, human heredity, plant and animal breeding, the relationships of the lives of organisms today, and the place of purpose in evolution are amongst the topics considered. Illustrated. 232 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).