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008 060630r20071993enk b 001 0 eng d
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100 1 $aGould, Stephen Jay.
245 10 $aEight little piggies :$breflections in natural history /$cStephen Jay Gould.
260 $aLondon :$bVintage Books,$c2007, ©1993.
300 $a1 volume
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 457-465) and index.
505 0 $aA reflective prologue -- 1. The scale of extinction (1. Unenchanted evening ; 2. The golden rule: a proper scale for our environmental crisis ; 3. Losing a limpet) -- 2. Odd bits of vertebrate anatomy (4. Eight little piggies ; 5. Bent out of shape ; 6. An earful of jaw ; 7. Full of hot air) -- 3. Vox populi (Evolving times -- 8. Men of the Thirty-Third Division: an essay in integrity ; 9. [Charles] Darwin and [William] Paley meet the invisible hand ; 10. More light on leaves -- Time in [Isaac] Newton's century -- 14. On rereading Edmund Halley ; 12. Fall in the house of [Bishop James] Ussher -- 4. Musings (Clouds of memory -- 13. Muller Bros. Moving & Storage ; 14. [Eugene] Shoemaker and Morning Star -- Authenticity -- 15. In touch with [Charles Doolittle] Walcott ; 16. Counters and cable cars) -- 5. Human nature (17. [Wolfgang Amadeus] Mozart and modularity ; 18. The moral state of Tahiti -- and of [Charles] Darwin ; 19. Ten thousand acts of kindness) -- 6. Grand patterns of evolution (Two steps toward a general theory of life's complexity -- 21. The wheel of fortune and the wedge of progress -- 22. Tires to sandals -- New discoveries in the earliest history of multicellular life -- 23. Defending the heretical and the superfluous ; 24. The reversal of Hallucigenia) -- 7. Revising and extending Darwin (25. What the immaculate pigeon teaches the burdened mind ; 26. The great seal principle ; 27. A dog's life in [Francis] Galton's polyhedron ; 28. Betting on chance -- and no fair peeking) -- 8. Reversals : fragments of a book not written (Shields of expectation -- and actuality ; 30. A tale of three pictures ; 31. A foot soldier for evolution [Francis Galton].
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)
650 7 $aEvolution (Biology)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00917302
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