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The panda's thumb : more reflections in natural history

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The panda's thumb : more reflections in natural history

著者：	Stephen Jay Gould
出版商：	New York : Norton, ©1980.
版本/格式：	图书 : 英语 : 1st ed查看所有的版本和格式
提要：	For better science students, this is a collection of 31 essays on natural history.
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文件类型：	书
所有的著者/提供者：	Stephen Jay Gould 查找更多有关下列内容的信息：
ISBN:	0393013804 9780393013801
OCLC号码：	6331415
注意：	Includes index.
描述：	343 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
内容：	Prologue -- [pt]. 1. Perfection and imperfection : a trilogy on a panda's thumb -- 1. The panda's thumb -- 2. Senseless signs of history -- 3. Double trouble -- [pt. 2]. Darwiniana -- 4. Natural selection and the human brain : Darwin vs. Wallace -- 5. Darwin's middle road -- 6. Death before birth, or a mite's nunc dimittis -- 7. Shades of Lamarck -- 8. Caring groups and selfish genes -- [pt]. 3. Human evolution -- 9. A biological homage to Mickey Mouse -- 10. Piltdown revisited -- 11. Our greatest evolutionary step -- 12. In the midst of life -- [pt]. 4. Science and politics of human differences -- 13. Wide hats and narrow minds -- 14. Women's brains -- 15. Dr. Down's syndrome -- 16. Flaws in a Victorian veil -- [pt. 5]. The pace of change -- 17. The episodic nature of evolutionary change -- 18. Return of the hopeful monster -- 19. The Great Scablands debate -- 20. A quahog is a quahog -- [pt]. 6. Early life -- 21. An early start -- 22. Crazy old Randolph Kirkpatrick -- 23. Bathybius and Eozoon -- 24. Might we fit inside a sponge's cell -- [pt]. 7. They were despised and rejected -- 25. Were dinosaurs dumb? -- 26. The telltale wishbone -- 27. Nature's odd couples -- 28. Sticking up for marsupials -- [pt]. 8. Size and time -- 29. Our allotted lifetimes -- 30. Natural attraction : bacteria, the birds and the bees -- 31. Time's vastness -- Bibliography -- Index.
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For better science students, this is a collection of 31 essays on natural history.

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The second of Gould's series of essays

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This is the second of Gould's many collections of essays originally written for the magazine "Natural History." Gould liked to bring to a popular audience current findings in evolution. He liked to discuss the political implications of science and the influence of politics on science. He had a liberal/left political sensibility that came through in his essays. These essays are still tight and powerful, well-crafted and fun to read.The hallmark essays of this volume are in the first set, including the title essay, The Panda's Thumb. The thesis of this section is that living organisms do not have perfect designs, and it is these imperfections that give evidence of evolution by natural selection. It is a powerful counter-argument against the ancient creationist "Argument from Design." In the case of the Panda, bears lost their thumbs in the course of evolutionary history. But Pandas need thumbs. So a thumb-like appendage evolved from the wrist to serve the purpose imperfectly. Imperfection reveals the contingent history of a functional object. The panda's thumb has become such a symbolic emblem for evolution that the standard creationist textbook for high school is called "Of Pandas and People," attempting to coopt the symbol rather than be defeated by it.Another essay that I like a great deal is about the Scablands. This area is the washboard spillway from an enormous flood from one of the glacial periods in North America. If one is arguing with a young earth creationist about Noah's flood, it is useful to know about the Scablands. If there really had been a worldwide inundation, many parts of the world would look like the Scablands. That the Scablands are unusual is evidence that no such flood occurred.Other topics include: Pithdown (suspecting Teilhard), punctuated equilibrium, sexism and racism in the history of science (Agassiz had a fear of blacks), the warm-blooded dinosaur hypothesis, and South American marsupials. On human evolution, he discusses upright posture preceding large brains, more neoteny, etc. He reviews Darwin's scientific methods. He again recounts oddities of the natural world as a way to test theories of evolution.

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