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Author Gould, Stephen Jay.

Title Bully for brontosaurus : reflections in natural history / Stephen Jay Gould.

Imprint New York : Norton, 1992, ©1991.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  508 G736b 1992    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 540 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-524) and index.
Summary A collection of thirty-five essays--representing the best of the column "This View of Life" from "Natural History" magazine--focuses on the themes of evolution and of the innumerable oddities of nature.
Contents George Canning's left buttock and the origin of species -- Grimm's greatest tale -- The creation myths of Cooperstown -- The panda's thumb of technology -- Bully for brontosaurus -- The dinosaur rip-off -- Of kiwi eggs and the Liberty Bell -- Male nipples and clitoral ripples -- Not necessarily a wing -- The case of the creeping fox terrier clone -- Life's little joke -- The chain of reason versus the chain of thumbs -- Madame Jeanette -- Red wings in the susnset -- Petrus camper's angle -- Literary bias on the slippery slope -- Glow, big glowworm -- To be a platypus -- Bligh's bounty -- Here goes nothing -- In a jumbled drawer -- Kropotkin was no crackpot -- Fleeming Jenkin revisited -- The passion of Antoine Lavoisier -- The godfather of disaster -- Knight takes Bishop? -- Genesis and geology -- William Jennigs Bryan's last campaign -- An essay on a pig roast -- Justice Scalia's misunderstanding -- The streak of streaks -- The median isn't the message -- The ant and the plant -- The face of Miranda -- The horn of Triton.
Subject Natural history -- Popular works.
Evolution -- Popular works.
Evolution. (OCoLC)fst00917265
Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
Genre/Form Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
ISBN 039330857X (pbk.)
9780393308570 (pbk.)
Standard No. YDXCP 335638

 
    
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