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Book Synopsis Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992-07-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on developments in evolutionary theory, discussing such topics as the Cambrian population explosion, Velikovsky's theories, and others.
Book Synopsis Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992-07-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science. Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould's first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. Like all succeeding collections by this unique writer, it brings the art of the scientific essay to unparalleled heights.
Book Synopsis Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992-07-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on developments in evolutionary theory, discussing such topics as the Cambrian population explosion, Velikovsky's theories, and others.
Book Synopsis Dinosaur in a Haystack by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book Dinosaur in a Haystack written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution.
Book Synopsis Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is no scientist today whose books I look forward to reading with greater anticipation of enjoyment and enlightenment than Stephen Jay Gould."—Martin Gardner Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould doesthe wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of collected essays—his sixth since Ever Since Darwin—Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives and to our ancestralgenerations. Along with way, he opens to us the mysteries of fish tails, frog calls, and other matters, and shows once and for all why we must take notice when a seemingly insignificant creature is threatened, like the land snail Partula from Moorea, whose extinction he movingly relates.
Book Synopsis The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gould himself is a rare and wonderful animal—a member of the endangered species known as the ruby-throated polymath. . . . [He] is a leading theorist on large-scale patterns in evolution . . . [and] one of the sharpest and most humane thinkers in the sciences." --David Quammen, New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis Ever Since Darwin by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book Ever Since Darwin written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I Have Landed by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book I Have Landed written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gould’s final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he ever published.
Book Synopsis Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis The Flamingo's Smile by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book The Flamingo's Smile written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains thirty of the author's essays from monthly columns in Natural History Magazine.
Book Synopsis Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively and fascinating. . . . Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature. Tracy Kidder
Book Synopsis The Lying Stones of Marrakech by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book The Lying Stones of Marrakech written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gould covers topics as diverse as episodes in the birth of paleontology to lessons from Britain’s four greatest Victorian naturalists. This collection presents the richness and fascination of the various lives that have fueled the enterprise of science and opened our eyes to a world of unexpected wonders.
Book Synopsis The Panda's Thumb by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book The Panda's Thumb written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays exploring the nature of evolution
Book Synopsis Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.
Book Synopsis Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990-09-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.
Book Synopsis An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What pleasure to see the dishonest, the inept, and the misguided deftly given their due, while praise is lavished on the deserving—for reasons well and truly stated."—Kirkus Reviews Ranging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism," and evolutionary theory in this sparkling collection.
Book Synopsis The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his final book, Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against each other for far too long.
