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050 1 4 _aQH361
_b.G66 1992
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100 1 _aGould, Stephen Jay
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245 1 4 _aThe panda's thumb :
_bmore reflections in natural history /
_cStephen Jay Gould
264 1 _aNew York :
_bNorton,
_c1992
264 4 _c©1980
300 _a343 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c21 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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500 _a"First published as a Norton pbk. 1980; reissued 1992."--Verso title page
500 _aIncludes index
504 _aBibliography: pages 324-330
505 0 0 _tPrologue --
_g[pt]. 1.
_tPerfection and imperfection : a trilogy on a panda's thumb --
_g1. The
_tpanda's thumb --
_g2.
_tSenseless signs of history --
_g3.
_tDouble trouble --
_g[pt. 2].
_tDarwiniana --
_g4.
_tNatural selection and the human brain : Darwin vs. Wallace --
_g5.
_tDarwin's middle road --
_g6.
_tDeath before birth, or a mite's nunc dimittis --
_g7.
_tShades of Lamarck --
_g8.
_tCaring groups and selfish genes --
_g[pt]. 3.
_tHuman evolution --
_g9. A
_tbiological homage to Mickey Mouse --
_g10.
_tPiltdown revisited --
_g11.
_tOur greatest evolutionary step --
_g12.
_tIn the midst of life --
_g[pt]. 4.
_tScience and politics of human differences --
_g13.
_tWide hats and narrow minds --
_g14.
_tWomen's brains --
_g15.
_tDr. Down's syndrome --
_g16.
_tFlaws in a Victorian veil --
505 0 0 _g[pt. 5]. The
_tpace of change --
_g17. The
_tepisodic nature of evolutionary change --
_g18.
_tReturn of the hopeful monster --
_g19. The
_tGreat Scablands debate --
_g20. A
_tquahog is a quahog --
_g[pt]. 6.
_tEarly life --
_g21. An
_tearly start --
_g22.
_tCrazy old Randolph Kirkpatrick --
_g23.
_tBathybius and Eozoon --
_g24.
_tMight we fit inside a sponge's cell --
_g[pt]. 7.
_tThey were despised and rejected --
_g25.
_tWere dinosaurs dumb? --
_g26. The
_ttelltale wishbone --
_g27.
_tNature's odd couples --
_g28.
_tSticking up for marsupials --
_g[pt]. 8.
_tSize and time --
_g29.
_tOur allotted lifetimes --
_g30.
_tNatural attraction : bacteria, the birds and the bees --
_g31.
_tTime's vastness --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
520 _aA 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
650 0 _aEvolution (Biology)
_xHistory
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650 0 _aNatural selection
_xHistory
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