The Giant Panda. A Morphological Study of Evolutionary Mechanisms. Fieldiana: Zoology Memoirs, Volume 3. FIRST EDITION.

Edité par Chicago: Natural History Museum, 1964., 1964

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1 leaf, 339 pp; 25 tables; 159 figs. Folio. Original wrappers. DO NOT ORDER UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE READ THIS CONDITION INFORMATION: Dampstaining in bottom corner of front cover, with light staining and rippling of the pages in the blank vertical margin up to about p. 25. More noticeable dampstaining in the blank bottom corner from about p. 250 to the end. Fortunately the dampstaining does not affect any of the printed text or figures. The price has been reduced accordingly. First Edition. "Fortunately, the giant panda has its bible, a monograph by D. Dwight Davis, late curator of vertebrate anatomy at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. It is probably the greatest work of modern evolutionary comparative anatomy, and it contains more than anyone would ever want to know about pandas" (Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb, p. 22). "At least two lines of influence link the publications and the fieldwork by which Dwight Davis contributed to the knowledge of mammals. A principal one, which begins in his first decade of work, is rapport with the Chicago Zoological Society. This resulted in his receiving rare specimens of mammals that died in the zoological park. In April of 1938 he received a giant panda, Ailuropoda melarwleuca. Relationships of pandas to other mammals were subject of much controversy, and Davis undertook to solve the problem by comparative study of the entire gross anatomy of the panda, considering the evidence of each system separately. When a mammal to which he needed to compare the panda was inadequately known, he did the necessary original research on it also. . . . The memoir on the giant panda, completed after 25 years of study, thought, and toil, and published 2 months before his death, represents Dwight Davis' maturest work and the ultimate expression of his personal perfectionism. It reaches beyond the original goal of determining in an irrefutable manner the relationships of the panda. In it he asks if a new primary goal of comparative anatomy can be to discover the causal mechanism(s) that evolved the sometimes striking differences between related forms. He then presents his study of the panda as a test of whether comparative anatomy can do this" (quoted from the obituary of Dwight Davis in the Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 46, no. 2, May 1965, p. 372). …

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The Giant Panda. A Morphological Study of Evolutionary Mechanisms. Fieldiana: Zoology Memoirs, Volume 3. FIRST EDITION.
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DAVIS, D. Dwight
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Chicago: Natural History Museum, 1964.
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1964
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