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• ISBN: 0609601415
• ISBN: 9780609601419
• Physical Description: 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: New York : Harmony Books, c1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-411) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. Art and science -- ch. 1. Upwardly mobile fossils of Leonardo's living earth -- ch. 2. Great Western and the fighting Temeraire -- ch. 3. Seeing eye to eye, through a glass clearly -- pt. 2. Biographies in evolution -- ch. 4. Clam stripped bare by her naturalists, even -- ch. 5. Darwin's American soulmate: a bird's-eye view -- ch. 6. Seahorse for all races -- ch. 7. Mr. Sophia's pony -- pt. 3. Human prehistory -- ch. 8. Up against a wall -- ch. 9. Lesson from the old masters -- ch. 10. Our unusual unity -- pt. 11. History and toleration -- ch. 11. Cerion for Christopher -- ch. 12. Dodo in the caucus race -- ch. 13. Diet of Worms and defenestration of Prague -- pt. 5. Evolutionary facts and theories -- ch. 14. Non-overlapping magisteria -- ch. 15. Boyle's Law and Darwin's details -- ch. 16. Tallest tale -- ch. 17. Brotherhood by inversion (or, as the worm turns) -- pt. 6. Different perceptions of common truths -- ch. 18. War of the worldviews -- ch. 19. Triumph of the root-heads -- ch. 20. Can we truly know sloth and rapacity -- ch. 21. Reversing established orders.

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Natural history.
Evolution (Biology)