TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gould,Stephen Jay
TI  - The panda's thumb: more reflections in natural history 
SN  - 0393308197 (pbk.)
AV  - QH361 .G66 1992
U1  - 575.016 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New York
PB  - Norton
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - History
KW  - Natural selection
N1  - "First published as a Norton pbk. 1980; reissued 1992."--Verso title page; Includes index; Bibliography: pages 324-330; 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
N2  - 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
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