Item #002753 Antiquity of Man as deduced from the discovery of a human skeleton during the Excavations of the East and West India Dock-Extensions at Tilbury, North Bank of the Thames. Richard OWEN.
Antiquity of Man as deduced from the discovery of a human skeleton during the Excavations of the East and West India Dock-Extensions at Tilbury, North Bank of the Thames.
Antiquity of Man as deduced from the discovery of a human skeleton during the Excavations of the East and West India Dock-Extensions at Tilbury, North Bank of the Thames.
Antiquity of Man as deduced from the discovery of a human skeleton during the Excavations of the East and West India Dock-Extensions at Tilbury, North Bank of the Thames.
Antiquity of Man as deduced from the discovery of a human skeleton during the Excavations of the East and West India Dock-Extensions at Tilbury, North Bank of the Thames.
Antiquity of Man as deduced from the discovery of a human skeleton during the Excavations of the East and West India Dock-Extensions at Tilbury, North Bank of the Thames.
Antiquity of Man as deduced from the discovery of a human skeleton during the Excavations of the East and West India Dock-Extensions at Tilbury, North Bank of the Thames.
Antiquity of Man as deduced from the discovery of a human skeleton during the Excavations of the East and West India Dock-Extensions at Tilbury, North Bank of the Thames.
Antiquity of Man as deduced from the discovery of a human skeleton during the Excavations of the East and West India Dock-Extensions at Tilbury, North Bank of the Thames.
Antiquity of Man as deduced from the discovery of a human skeleton during the Excavations of the East and West India Dock-Extensions at Tilbury, North Bank of the Thames.

Antiquity of Man as deduced from the discovery of a human skeleton during the Excavations of the East and West India Dock-Extensions at Tilbury, North Bank of the Thames.

London: J. van Voorst, 1884.

1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Item #002753

8vo (224 x 143 mm). [3] 4-32 pp., 4 folding lithographed plates, 1 table, advertisment leaf bound at end. Original blind-stamped cloth, untrimmed, gilt-lettered spine (upper cover slightly marked), original yellow endpapers. Good, unsophisticated copy. ----

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Sir John Fowler on first free endpaper. Richard Owen (1804-1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Despite being a controversial figure, he is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils. He produced a vast array of scientific work, but is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria. An outspoken critic of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, Owen agreed with Darwin that evolution occurred, but thought it was more complex than outlined in Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Owen's approach to evolution can be seen as having anticipated the issues that have gained greater attention with the recent emergence of evolutionary developmental biology. (Source: Wiki online).

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