Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural HistoryJonathan Cape, 1993 - Всего страниц: 479 This collection of essays range from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over palaeontology to the origins of language. The title is a pun and as always with Gould, the joke has a point that illustrates the largest pattern of life's history. for millennia, the animals that populated the earth had four toes on each foot, or six. If evolution had taken a tiny shift - if man's ancestors had inherited a couple of genes in a different form - our canonical number, based on man's fingers and toes, might be eight instead of ten. Stephen Jay Gould has also written Wonderful Life, Bully for Brontosaurus and Finders Keepers. |
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... early recon- structions - by Buckland , Conybeare , de la Beche , Hawkins , and other worthies of early English geology - showed a slithering serpent without back or tail fins , not the reptilian embodiment of a swordfish . How , then ...
... early recon- structions - by Buckland , Conybeare , de la Beche , Hawkins , and other worthies of early English geology - showed a slithering serpent without back or tail fins , not the reptilian embodiment of a swordfish . How , then ...
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... Early Miocene apes were quite monkey- like in their modes of life . Compared with monkey forebears , early apes tended to be larger , more tree bound , more narrowly tied to fruit eating , and less likely to cope with a strongly ...
... Early Miocene apes were quite monkey- like in their modes of life . Compared with monkey forebears , early apes tended to be larger , more tree bound , more narrowly tied to fruit eating , and less likely to cope with a strongly ...
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... early days — and later history may be epitomized as a dimi- nution of initial possibilities by decimation , rather than a contin- ual expansion . In this reversed model of a grass field , with most blades clipped off and just a few ...
... early days — and later history may be epitomized as a dimi- nution of initial possibilities by decimation , rather than a contin- ual expansion . In this reversed model of a grass field , with most blades clipped off and just a few ...
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A Reflective Prologue | 11 |
Unenchanted Evening | 23 |
A Proper Scale for | 41 |
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Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History Stephen Jay Gould Недоступно для просмотра - 2007 |
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