Books
- Attending marvels (1931)
- Tempo and mode in evolution (1944)
- The meaning of evolution (1949)
- Horses (1951)
- Evolution and geography (1953)
- The major features of evolution (1953)
- Life: an introduction to biology (1957)
- Principles of animal taxonomy (1961)
- This view of life (1964)
- The geography of evolution (1965)
- Penguins (1976)
- Concession to the improbable (1978) (an autobiography)
- Splendid isolation (1980)
- The Dechronization of Sam Magruder (posthumously published novella, 1996)
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