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050 14 $aQH81$b.G67323 1998
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100 1 $aGould, Stephen Jay.
245 10 $aLeonardo's mountain of clams and the Diet of Worms :$bessays on natural history /$cStephen Jay Gould.
250 $a1st paperback ed.
260 $aNew York :$bThree Rivers Press,$c©1998.
300 $a422 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 405-411) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Pieces of Eight: Confession of a Humanistic Naturalist -- Art and Science -- The Upwardly Mobile Fossils of Leonardo's Living Earth -- The Great Western and the Fighting Temeraire -- Seeing Eye to Eye, Through a Glass Clearly -- Biographies in Evolution -- The Clam Stripped Bare by Her Naturalists, Even -- Darwin's American Soulmate: A Bird's-Eye View -- A Seahorse for All Races -- Mr. Sophia's Pony -- Human Prehistory -- Up Against a Wall -- A Lesson from the Old Masters -- Our Unusual Unity -- Of History and Toleration -- A Cerion for Christopher -- The Dodo in the Caucus Race -- The Diet of Worms and the Defenestration of Prague -- Evolutionary Facts and Theories -- Non-Overlapping Magisteria -- Boyle's Law and Darwin's Details -- The Tallest Tale -- Brotherhood by Inversion (or, As the Worm Turns) -- Different Perceptions of Common Truths -- War of the Worldviews -- Triumph of the Root-Heads -- Can We Truly Know Sloth and Rapacity? -- Reversing Established Orders.
520 $aLeonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). It is also the first of the final three such collections, since Dr. Gould has announced that the series will end with the turn of the millennium. In this collection, Gould consciously and unconventionally formulates a humanistic natural history, a consideration of how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself. With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature's and humanity's diversity and order. In affecting short biographies, he depicts how scholars grapple with problems of science and philosophy as he illuminates the interaction of the outer world with the unique human ability to struggle to understand the whys and wherefores of existence.
650 0 $aNatural history.
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)
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650 7 $aNatural history.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01034268
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