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The Evolution of Life
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | N/A |
| Dust Jacket Protection: | N/A |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Impression: | 1st Impression |
| Signature: | None |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Methuen & Co |
| Publication Year: | 1907 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| Book ID: | 030939 |
| Catalogue(s): | Science - Life Sciences, Biology, Human Biology, Evolution ◇ Science - History of Science |
First edition. xviii, 320, 48pp, with woodcut illustrations in text and numerous black and white plates. Blue cloth-covered boards with black lettering on upper panel and gilt titles on spine. Top edge sprayed blue. 8vo. Cloth a little faded, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and tips of a lightly sunned spine. Some mild toning to text block edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Bastion (1837-1915) was a neurologist and physiologist, Professor of Pathology and later of Clinical Medicine at UCL Medical School. An early advocate of the doctrine of archeboiosis (that living matter evolved from non-living organic matter) and a critic of germ theory, he first coined the term biogensis. This is one of his last and best argued written works published a few years before his death in 1915.
