The panda's thumb : more reflections in natural history /
For better science students, this is a collection of 31 essays on natural history.
| Основен автор: | Gould, Stephen Jay. |
|---|---|
| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Norton,
c1980.
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| Издание: | 1st ed. |
| Предмети: | |
| Онлайн достъп: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis |
Съдържание:
- 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.