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Stephen Jay GouldPublication Details
Book1st edHarmony Books2002Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) QH45.5 .G725 2002 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Here is bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould?s tenth and final collection based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine?exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. In this collection of figures compelling and strange, Gould exercises one of his greatest strengths, the ability to reveal a significant scientific concept through a finely crafted and sympathetic portrait of the person behind the science. Part IV encourages the reader?through what Gould calls ?intellectual paleontology??to consider scientific theories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in a new light and to recognize the limitations our own place in history may impose on our understanding of those ideas. In subsequent essays, in true Gould fashion, we are treated to moments of good humor, especially when he leads us to topics that bring him obvious delight, such as Dorothy Sayers novels and his enduring love of baseball and all its dramas. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- Includes index
Contents
- I. Pausing in Continuity. 1. I Have Landed
- II. Disciplinary Connections: Scientific Slouching Across a Misconceived Divide. 2. No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts: The Lepidoptery of Vladimir Nabokov. 3. Jim Bowie’s Letter and Bill Buckner’s Legs. 4. The True Embodiment of Everything That’s Excellent. 5. Art Meets Science in The Heart of the Andes: Church Paints, Humboldt Dies, Darwin Writes, and Nature Blinks in the Fateful Year of 1859
- III. Darwinian Prequels and Fallout. 6. The Darwinian Gentleman at Marx’s Funeral: Resolving Evolution’s Oddest Coupling. 7. The Pre-Adamite in a Nutshell. 8. Freud’s Evolutionary Fantasy
- IV. Essays in the Paleontology of Ideas. 9. The Jew and the Jewstone. 10. When Fossils Were Young. 11. Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis
- V. Casting the Die: Six Evolutionary Epitomes. 12. Darwin and the Munchkins of Kansas. 13. Darwin’s More Stately Mansion. 14. A Darwin for All Reasons. 15. When Less Is Truly More. 16. Darwin’s Cultural Degree. 17. The Without and Within of Smart Mice
- VI. The Meaning and Drawing of Evolution. 18. What Does the Dreaded "E" Word Mean Anyway? 19. The First Day of the Rest of Our Life. 20. The Narthex of San Marco and the Pangenetic Paradigm. 21. Linnaeus’s Luck? 22. Abscheulich! (Atrocious). 23. Tales of a Feathered Tail
- VII. Natural Worth. 24. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Concept of Native Plants. 25. Age-Old Fallacies of Thinking and Stinking. 26. The Geometer of Race. 27. The Great Physiologist of Heidelberg
- VIII. Triumph and Tragedy on the Exact Centennial of I Have Landed, September 11, 2001. 28. The Good People of Halifax. 29. Apple Brown Betty. 30. The Woolworth Building. 31. September 11, ‘01
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- 0609601431
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