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The panda's thumb :more reflections ...

Gould, Stephen Jay.

The panda's thumb :more reflections in natural history /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	575.01/62
書名/作者:	The panda's thumb : : more reflections in natural history // Stephen Jay Gould.
作者:	Gould, Stephen Jay.
出版者:	New York : : Norton,, 1992.
面頁冊數:	343 p. : : ill. ;; 21 cm.
附註:	"First published as a Norton pbk. 1980; reissued 1992."--T.p. verso.
標題:	Evolution (Biology) - History.
標題:	Natural selection - History.
ISBN:	9780393308198 (pbk.) :
ISBN:	0393308197 (pbk.)
書目註:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-330) and index.
摘要、提要註:	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.

The panda's thumb :more reflections in natural history /
Gould, Stephen Jay.

The panda's thumb :more reflections in natural history /Stephen Jay Gould. - New York :Norton,1992. - 343 p. :ill. ;21 cm.

"First published as a Norton pbk. 1980; reissued 1992."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-330) and index.

Prologue --[pt]. 1.

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.

ISBN: 9780393308198 (pbk.) :NTD 574Subjects--Topical Terms:

388699
Evolution (Biology)
--History.

LC Class. No.: QH361 / .G66 1992

Dewey Class. No.: 575.01/62

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