Parallel development and specialisation during the evolution of the bird skull

Pp. (2), 217-228; 5 text-figures.  Original printed gray wrappers, lg 8vo.  This offprint also contains two other papers by D. Starck: ‘The Evolution of the Cranium in Mammals’ (pp. 229-239, 5 text-figures) and ‘Specialization of the Skull in Mammals’ (pp. 241-252, 7 text-figures).  Annale Universiteit van Stellenbosch, volume 44, no. 3-5.  Name stamp of former owner on the front wrapper, almost no signs of use.  The text is entirely in English.  This is a rare work by this German comparative anatomist whose embryological research foreshadowed the field of “evo-devo.”