Quiring D P (3 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1250grams, ISBN. …

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN.

Condition: Very Good. xi, 624, 257 text figs. . HB. Orig. cloth. Small name stamp to endpaper. Vg. 1st edition. A mid-twentieth-century textbook of comparative vertebrate anatomy, notable for interpreting anatomical structure in relation to function, performance and behaviour rather than treating morphology purely descriptively. Drawing upon the author's extensive dissections and field observations, Quiring compares the organ systems of the principal vertebrate groups and illustrates the relationship between form and biological function. The work anticipates the increasingly functional and evolutionary approach to comparative anatomy that became influential later in the twentieth century.…