Domavjne Zhivotyye Semipalatinskoj Gybernii [Domestic animals of the Semipalatinsk region].

Leningrad, Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1928. 8vo (23.0 x 14.7 cm). 240 pp.; two maps, 24 plates. Original printed weappers. = Deals principaly with horses of present-day Kazachstan, being part of a series titled Materiali osoboro Komitet, seriya Kazakhstanskaya. This seldom-seen work was co-authored by one of the founders of modern genetics, Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky (1900- 1975) "a prominent Russian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the modern synthesis. Dobzhansky was born in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, and became an immigrant to the United States in 1927, aged 27. His 1937 work Genetics and the Origin of Species became a major influence on the modern synthesis. He was awarded the US National Medal of Science in 1964 and the Franklin Medal in 1973 . one of his most famous essays [is] "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution". (Wikipedia). Uncut. Wrapper edges a bit frayed; number written on front wrapper, label remnant on front wrapper verso, internally very good, clean.