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I have landed : the end of a beginning in natural history

Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: New York : Harmony Books, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Print book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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A final collection of essays from "Natural History" magazine includes writings on such subjects as Charles Darwin, the methods of science versus those of the humanistic disciplines, Nabokov's butterfly research, and the author's grandfather's arrival in America one hundred years ago.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Gould, Stephen Jay.
I have landed.
New York : Harmony Books, ©2002
(OCoLC)647667375
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN: 0609601431 9780609601433
OCLC Number: 49421722
Description: xi, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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 --
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 --
Darwinian gentleman at Marx's funeral : resolving evolution's oddest coupling --
Pre-Adamite in a nutshell --
Freud's evolutionary fantasy --
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 --
Darwin for all reasons --
When less is truly more --
Darwin's cultural degree --
Without and within of smart mice --
What does the dreaded "E" word mean anyway? --
First day of the rest of our life --
Narthex of San Marco and the pangenetic paradigm --
Linnaeus's luck? --
Abscheulich! (atrocious) --
Tales of a feathered tail --
Evolutionary perspective on the concept of native plants --
Age-old fallacies of thinking and stinking --
Geometer of race --
Great physiologist of Heidelberg --
Good people of Halifax --
Apple brown betty --
Woolworth Building --
September 11, '01.
Responsibility: Stephen Jay Gould.
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A final collection of essays from "Natural History" magazine includes writings on such subjects as Charles Darwin, the methods of science versus those of the humanistic disciplines, Nabokov's butterfly research, and the author's grandfather's arrival in America one hundred years ago.

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