Ontogeny and Phylogeny.

GOULD, Stephen Jay.

Item Number: 3984

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original brown cloth. Signed by Stephen Jay Gould on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a small chip to the front panel and light wear to the extremities.

"Ontogeny and Phylogeny, a scholarly study of the theory of recapitulation, he not only explains scientific theory but comments on science itself, with clarity and wit, simultaneously entertaining and teaching...[This] is a rich book" (James Gorman New York Times Book Review).