John Tyler Bonner. Size and Cycle: An essay on the Structure of Biology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965.  

First Edition, 219 pp; 9-1/2 by 6-1/4 inches; illustrations by Patricia Collins. Lavender/grey cloth, burgundy stamp and gold titles on spine, with dust jacket A very good copy.

"Here John Tyler Bonner attempts to bring the whole science of biology into a new set of ordering concepts, taking the life cycle as the essential unit (rather than the adult organism) and emphasizing the importance of size in evolutionary adaptation."

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(Wikipedia) -- John Tyler Bonner (1920 – 2019) was an American biologist who was a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. He was a pioneer in the use of cellular slime molds to understand evolution and development over a career of 40 years and was one of the world's leading experts on cellular slime moulds. Arizona State University says that the establishment and growth of developmental-evolutionary biology owes a great debt to the work of Bonner’s studies. His work is highly readable and unusually clearly written and his contributions have made many complicated ideas of biology accessible to a wide audience.