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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.
Subject:
Natural history.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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