Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural HistoryW. W. Norton & Company, 29 nov 2010 - 480 pagine "There is no scientist today whose books I look forward to reading with greater anticipation of enjoyment and enlightenment than Stephen Jay Gould."—Martin Gardner Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould doesthe wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of collected essays—his sixth since Ever Since Darwin—Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives and to our ancestralgenerations. Along with way, he opens to us the mysteries of fish tails, frog calls, and other matters, and shows once and for all why we must take notice when a seemingly insignificant creature is threatened, like the land snail Partula from Moorea, whose extinction he movingly relates. |
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A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis | |
Losing a Limpet | |
Eight Little Piggies | |
Bent Out of Shape | |
An Earful of | |
Full of Hot | |
An Essay on Integrity | |
Darwin and Paley Meet the Invisible Hand | |
More Light on Leaves | |
On Rereading Edmund Halley | |
Fall in the House of Ussher | |
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Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History Stephen Jay Gould Visualizzazione estratti - 1993 |
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History Stephen Jay Gould Anteprima non disponibile - 2007 |
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