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The flamingo's smile : reflections in natural history / Stephen Jay Gould.
Record details
- ISBN: 0393022285 :
- ISBN: 9780393022285
- Physical Description: 476 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Norton, c1985.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-458) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- The flamingo's smile -- Only his wings remained -- Sex and size -- Living with connections -- A most ingenious paradox -- Adam's navel -- The freezing of Noah -- False premise, good science -- For want of a metaphor -- Of wasps and WASPs -- Opus 100 -- Human equality is a contingent fact of history -- The rule of five -- Losing the edge -- Postscript : strike three for Babe -- Death and transfiguration -- Reducing riddles -- To show an ape -- Bound by the great chain -- The hottentot venus -- Carrie Buck's daughter -- Singapore's patrimony (and matrimony) -- Hannah West's left shoulder and the origin of natural selection -- Darwin at sea- and the virtues of port -- A short way to corn -- Just in the middle -- Mind and supermind -- SETI and the wisdom of Casey Stengel -- Sex, drugs, disasters, and the extinction of dinosaurs -- Continuity -- The cosmic dance of Siva.
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- Subject:
- Natural history.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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