Edition |
1st pbk. ed. |
Description |
xi, 417 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Note |
Originally published in hardcover by Harmony Books in 2002. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
I have landed -- No science without fancy, no art without facts : the lepidoptery of Vladimir Nabokov -- Jim Bowie's letter and Bill Buckner's legs -- The true embodiment of everything that's excellent -- Art meets science in The heart of the Andes : Church paints, Humboldt dies, Darwin writes, and nature blinks in the fateful year of 1859 -- The Darwinian gentleman at Marx's funeral : resolving evolution's oddest coupling -- The pre-Adamite in a nutshell -- Freud's evolutionary fantasy -- The Jew and the jewstone -- When fossils were young -- Syphilis and the shepherd of Atlantis -- Darwin and the munchkins of Kansas -- Darwin's more stately mansion -- A Darwin for all reasons -- When less is truly more -- Darwin's cultural degree -- The without and within of smart mice -- What does the dreaded "E" word mean anyway? -- The first day of the rest of our life -- The narthex of San Marco and the pangenetic paradigm -- Linnaeus's luck? -- Abscheulich! (atrocious) -- Tales of a feathered tail -- An evolutionary perspective on the concept of native plants -- Age-old fallacies of thinking and stinking -- The geometer of race -- The great physiologist of Heidelberg -- The good people of Halifax -- Apple brown betty -- The Woolworth Building -- September 11, '01. |
Summary |
A collection of Stephen Gould's essays on a wide variety of scientific topics. These essays are based on articles written for Natural history magazine between 1974 and 2001. |
Subject |
Natural history.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Evolution (Biology) (OCoLC)fst00917302
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Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
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ISBN |
1400048044 (pbk.) |
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9781400048045 (pbk.) |
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