Gould, Stephen Jay
The panda's thumb : more reflections in natural history / Stephen Jay Gould - 343 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
"First published as a Norton pbk. 1980; reissued 1992."--Verso title page Includes index
Bibliography: pages 324-330
Prologue -- Perfection and imperfection : a trilogy on a panda's thumb -- panda's thumb -- Senseless signs of history -- Double trouble -- Darwiniana -- Natural selection and the human brain : Darwin vs. Wallace -- Darwin's middle road -- Death before birth, or a mite's nunc dimittis -- Shades of Lamarck -- Caring groups and selfish genes -- Human evolution -- biological homage to Mickey Mouse -- Piltdown revisited -- Our greatest evolutionary step -- In the midst of life -- Science and politics of human differences -- Wide hats and narrow minds -- Women's brains -- Dr. Down's syndrome -- Flaws in a Victorian veil -- [pt]. 1. 1. The 2. 3. [pt. 2]. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. [pt]. 3. 9. A 10. 11. 12. [pt]. 4. 13. 14. 15. 16. pace of change -- episodic nature of evolutionary change -- Return of the hopeful monster -- Great Scablands debate -- quahog is a quahog -- Early life -- early start -- Crazy old Randolph Kirkpatrick -- Bathybius and Eozoon -- Might we fit inside a sponge's cell -- They were despised and rejected -- Were dinosaurs dumb? -- telltale wishbone -- Nature's odd couples -- Sticking up for marsupials -- Size and time -- Our allotted lifetimes -- Natural attraction : bacteria, the birds and the bees -- Time's vastness -- Bibliography -- Index [pt. 5]. The 17. The 18. 19. The 20. A [pt]. 6. 21. An 22. 23. 24. [pt]. 7. 25. 26. The 27. 28. [pt]. 8. 29. 30. 31.
A collection of essays by reknown scientist Jay Stephen Gould drawn from his columns in Natural History. The essays deal with topics such as: evolutionary opportunism (nature is a tinkerer, making the most of what's available in the course of adapting to the environment); new information on Darwin and his contemporaries; racism and cultural relativism; the evolutionary pattern of sudden rapid change; the origin of birds or the warm-bloodedness of dinosaurs; and, Teilhard de Chardin as a co-conspirator in the Piltdown hoax
0393308197 (pbk.) 9780393308198 (pbk.)
Evolution (Biology)--History
Natural selection--History
QH361 / .G66 1992
575.016
The panda's thumb : more reflections in natural history / Stephen Jay Gould - 343 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
"First published as a Norton pbk. 1980; reissued 1992."--Verso title page Includes index
Bibliography: pages 324-330
Prologue -- Perfection and imperfection : a trilogy on a panda's thumb -- panda's thumb -- Senseless signs of history -- Double trouble -- Darwiniana -- Natural selection and the human brain : Darwin vs. Wallace -- Darwin's middle road -- Death before birth, or a mite's nunc dimittis -- Shades of Lamarck -- Caring groups and selfish genes -- Human evolution -- biological homage to Mickey Mouse -- Piltdown revisited -- Our greatest evolutionary step -- In the midst of life -- Science and politics of human differences -- Wide hats and narrow minds -- Women's brains -- Dr. Down's syndrome -- Flaws in a Victorian veil -- [pt]. 1. 1. The 2. 3. [pt. 2]. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. [pt]. 3. 9. A 10. 11. 12. [pt]. 4. 13. 14. 15. 16. pace of change -- episodic nature of evolutionary change -- Return of the hopeful monster -- Great Scablands debate -- quahog is a quahog -- Early life -- early start -- Crazy old Randolph Kirkpatrick -- Bathybius and Eozoon -- Might we fit inside a sponge's cell -- They were despised and rejected -- Were dinosaurs dumb? -- telltale wishbone -- Nature's odd couples -- Sticking up for marsupials -- Size and time -- Our allotted lifetimes -- Natural attraction : bacteria, the birds and the bees -- Time's vastness -- Bibliography -- Index [pt. 5]. The 17. The 18. 19. The 20. A [pt]. 6. 21. An 22. 23. 24. [pt]. 7. 25. 26. The 27. 28. [pt]. 8. 29. 30. 31.
A collection of essays by reknown scientist Jay Stephen Gould drawn from his columns in Natural History. The essays deal with topics such as: evolutionary opportunism (nature is a tinkerer, making the most of what's available in the course of adapting to the environment); new information on Darwin and his contemporaries; racism and cultural relativism; the evolutionary pattern of sudden rapid change; the origin of birds or the warm-bloodedness of dinosaurs; and, Teilhard de Chardin as a co-conspirator in the Piltdown hoax
0393308197 (pbk.) 9780393308198 (pbk.)
Evolution (Biology)--History
Natural selection--History
QH361 / .G66 1992
575.016