Papers on Evolution.
Ehrlich, Paul R.; Holm, Richard W.; Raven, Peter H.
$125.00Item Number: 1985
Boston: Little, Brown, 1969.
First edition. Near fine in wrappers. Signed by Edward O. Wilson, who contributed the essay “Character Displacement” to this volume.
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