ARAB Sheet illuminated with Monarch and two people. Page from "Kitab al-Hayawan" (Book of the animals) of al-Giahiz (781-868); Arab scholar; writer of prose works in Arabic and lyricist of Arabic literature; biology and zoology; history; philosophy Islamic; Islamic psychology; theology Mutazilite and political-religious polemicist. In the work; consisting of seven volumes; it is the early foundations of the theory of evolution and the environmental influence on the development of the species; in addition to the first observations on the importance of the food chain. Print facsimile from Arabic manuscript from Syria; the goal 'of the fourteenth century.