Economic Animals: Northern Vietnam, Volume 1 evolving into bamboo-eating pandas

evolving into bamboo-eating pandas

This anthology makes available a set of key documents in the literature of human evolution relevant to the history of hominid taxonomy and the discovery and naming of extinct hominid species (from the rear cover blurb)

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Publisher George Jacob Wishoff Publisher Place Leiden Date Published 1753 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Very good Condition Description Page edges a bit darkened

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Economic Animals: Northern Vietnam, Volume 1 evolving into bamboo-eating pandasPp. 361, 26 black and white photographs, 32 distribution maps, errata corrections page tipped in at rear. Text is in Vietnamese with Latin names used throughout. Le Hien Hoe was a lecturer at Hanoi University who researched the more than 200 species and subspecies in Northern Vietnam and their economic significance. This volume introduces the history of animal research in Northern Vietnam and 41 significant animals, mainly mammals. This is the first