The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
478
Pagini
1987
An
Paperback
Copertă
Descriere
"His fourth volume of imaginative, witty essays...equals Gould's prize-winning The Panda's Thumb and The Mismeasure of Man".--Publisher's Weekly. Photographs.
"His fourth volume of imaginative, witty essays...equals Gould's prize-winning The Panda's Thumb and The Mismeasure of Man".--Publisher's Weekly. Photographs.
Evolutionary theory is the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flowers and snails that change from male to female and sometimes back again, and the extinction from baseball of the .400 hitter.
Conectează-te pentru a lăsa o recenzie
Nicio recenzie încă
Fii primul care lasă o impresie.
Mai multe de Stephen Jay Gould
Vezi toate
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
Punctuated Equilibrium
Eight Little Piggies
I Have Landed
Wonderful Life
Full House
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History, Paperback
