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The flamingo's smile : reflections in natural history

Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: New York : Norton, 1987, ©1985.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Contains thirty of the author's essays from monthly columns in Natural History Magazine.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN: 0393303756 9780393303759
OCLC Number: 16127169
Description: 476 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Prologue --
[pt]. 1. Zoonomia (and exceptions) --
Reversals --
1. The flamingo's smile --
2. Only his wings remained --
3. Sex and size --
Boundaries --
4. Living with connections --
5. A most ingenious paradox --
[pt]. 2. Theory and perception --
Two admirable creationists --
6. Adam's navel --
7. The freezing of Noah --
The cloven hoofprint of theory --
8. False premise, good science --
9. For want of a metaphor --
[pt]. 3. The importance of taxonomy --
10. Of wasps and WASPs --
11. Opus 100 --
12. Human equality is a contingent fact of history --
13. The rule of five --
[pt]. 4. Trends and their meaning --
14. Losing the edge --
Postscript : strike three for Babe --
15. Death and transfiguration --
16. Reducing riddles. [pt]. 5. Politics and progress --
The chain of being --
17. To show an ape --
18. Bound by the great chain --
19. The Hottentot Venus --
Eugenics past and present --
20. Carrie Buck's daughter --
21. Singapore's patrimony (and matrimony) --
[pt]. 6. Darwiniana --
22. Hannah West's left shoulder and the origin of natural selection --
23. Darwin at sea --
and the virtues of port --
24. A short way to corn --
[pt]. 7. Life here and elsewhere --
25. Just in the middle --
26. Mind and supermind --
27. SETI and the wisdom of Casey Stengel --
[pt]. 8. Extinction and continuity --
28. Sex, drugs, disasters, and the extinction of dinosaurs --
29. Continuity --
30. The cosmic dance of Siva --
Bibliography --
Index.
Responsibility: Stephen Jay Gould.

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Contains thirty of the author's essays from monthly columns in Natural History Magazine.

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