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  • Land and Freshwater Snails of Tahiti and the other Society Islands
    Justin Gerlach
    This field guide covers the 229 species of land and freshwater snails and slugs found in Tahiti and the other Society Island (French Polynesia). All species are illustrated and distribution records briefly summarised. ...
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    31,67 €

  • Essential Biology
    Justin Gerlach
    This book covers the fundamentals of biology. It is primarily aimed at students completing school biology courses or about to start a biology degree course. It summarises the biology that ought to be seen as essential at those stages and corrects the most common misinterpretations that tend to occur. The fact that all aspects of biology are interlinked is highlighted. The book ...
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    15,54 €

  • Essential Animals
    Justin Gerlach
    This book provides a brief introduction to each of the 36 phyla of living animals. A short summary is given of every phylum: its general characteristics, number of species, ecology and evolutionary relationships, along with an illustration of each, and an indication of their position on the most recent phylogenetic trees. The aim of this is to give readers an overview of the di...
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    14,41 €

  • In the footprints of the first naturalist explorers
    Justin Gerlach
    This book is an account of the author's explorations of the French Polynesian islands in 1992 and 2017 on expeditions to search for endangered animals. The most recent expedition was 250 years after Tahiti was 'discovered' by European explorers. The acounts written by famous explorers such as Wallis, Bougainville and Cook, and their associated naturalists, give a pa...
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    18,92 €

  • Icons of Evolution
    Justin Gerlach
    The partulid tree-snails of the Pacific Islands are today best known for their tragic recent history. Following the introduction of predatory snails a third of partulid species are now extinct and almost all others threatened with extinction. As most of these extinctions took place in a 20 year period this is one of the most dramatic rates of extinction ever recorded. Before Pa...
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    70,18 €

  • Extinct animals of the British Isles
    Justin Gerlach
    136 animal species have become extinct in the British Isles over the past thousand years. This book describes many of these extinctions, from familiar species such as the wolf and the iconic extinction of the great auk, to the numerous insects that have vanished from the islands. Whilst some losses are unsurprising others are strange stories of enigmatic species such as the Man...
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    17,02 €

  • Snailing Round the South Seas
    Justin Gerlach
    The story of the tree snails of the Pacific Islands spans 250 years of the history of biology as a science. This runs from Captain Cook’s first voyage of exploration, through the start of evolutionary theory and the development of the science of genetics. ’Snailing round the South Seas’ traces this history through the surprisingly central role played by a group of snails.Ultima...
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    20,26 €

  • The Great Survivors
    Justin Gerlach
    An account of the evolution of turtles, tortoises and terrpains from their origins 220 million years ago to the present day. This covers most of the fossil species and all living species. ...
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    28,95 €