The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History write by Stephen Jay Gould. This book was released on 2010-11-29. The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Gould himself is a rare and wonderful animal—a member of the endangered species known as the ruby-throated polymath. . . . [He] is a leading theorist on large-scale patterns in evolution . . . [and] one of the sharpest and most humane thinkers in the sciences." --David Quammen, New York Times Book Review
The Flamingo's Smile
The Flamingo's Smile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Flamingo's Smile write by Stephen Jay Gould. This book was released on 1987. The Flamingo's Smile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before Darwinism was generally accepted, the natural world was thought to be structured according to the chain of being. Evolutionary theories have revolutionized this imperialistic view, and the process we now know as natural selection explains a great many mysteries to us. One such enigma is the flamingo's smile, which is a perfect example of the way in which function (in this case feeding in saline lakes) and form (the inverted beak that enables the flamingo to feed more successfully) are inseparable.
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History write by Stephen Jay Gould. This book was released on 2010-11-29. Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History write by Stephen Jay Gould. This book was released on 2010-11-29. The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Gould is a natural writer; he has something to say and the inclination and skill with which to say it." —P. B. Medawar, New York Review of Books With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical acclaim. The Panda's Thumb will introduce a new generation of readers to this unique writer, who has taken the art of the scientific essay to new heights. Were dinosaurs really dumber than lizards? Why, after all, are roughly the same number of men and women born into the world? What led the famous Dr. Down to his theory of mongolism, and its racist residue? What do the panda's magical "thumb" and the sea turtle's perilous migration tell us about imperfections that prove the evolutionary rule? The wonders and mysteries of evolutionary biology are elegantly explored in these and other essays by the celebrated natural history writer Stephen Jay Gould.
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes write by Stephen Jay Gould. This book was released on 1990. Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lively and fascinating. . . . Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature. Tracy Kidder
