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• ISBN: 0609601431 (hc)
• ISBN: 9780609601433 (hc)
• Physical Description: xi, 418 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: New York : Harmony Books, c2002.

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INCLUDES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

I have landed -- No science without fancy, no art without facts : the lepidoptery of Vladimir Nabokov -- Jim Bowie's letter and Bill Buckner's legs -- True embodiment of everything that's excellent -- Art meets science in The heart of the Andes : Church paints, Humboldt dies, Darwin writes, and nature blinks in the fateful year of 1859 -- Darwinian gentleman at Marx's funeral : resolving evolution's oddest coupling -- Pre-Adamite in a nutshell -- Freud's evolutionary fantasy -- Jew and the jewstone -- When fossils were young -- Syphilis and the shepherd of Atlantis -- Darwin and the munchkins of Kansas -- Darwin's more stately mansion -- Darwin for all reasons -- When less is truly more -- Darwin's cultural degree -- Without and within of smart mice -- What does the dreaded "E" word mean anyway? -- First day of the rest of our life -- Narthex of San Marco and the pangenetic paradigm -- Linnaeus's luck? -- Abscheulich! (atrocious) -- Tales of a feathered tail -- Evolutionary perspective on the concept of native plants -- Age-old fallacies of thinking and stinking -- Geometer of race -- Great physiologist of Heidelberg -- Good people of Halifax -- Apple brown betty -- Woolworth Building -- September 11, '01.

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Subject:

Natural history.
Evolution (Biology)
Sciences naturelles.
Darwinisme.
Evolutie.
Natuurlijke historie.