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9780393308181

Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393308181

  • ISBN10:

    0393308189

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-07-17
  • Publisher: INGRAM

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Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould's first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. Like all succeeding collections by this unique writer, it brings the art of the scientific essay to unparalleled heights.

Table of Contents

Prologuep. 11
Darwin's Delayp. 21
Darwin's Sea Change, or Five Years at the Captain's Tablep. 28
Darwin's Dilemma: The Odyssey of Evolutionp. 34
Darwin's Untimely Burialp. 39
A Matter of Degreep. 49
Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolutionp. 56
The Child as Man's Real Fatherp. 63
Human Babies as Embryosp. 70
The Misnamed, Mistreated, and Misunderstood Irish Elkp. 79
Organic Wisdom, or Why Should a Fly Eat Its Mother from Insidep. 91
Of Bamboos, Cicadas, and the Economy of Adam Smithp. 97
The Problem of Perfection, or How Can a Clam Mount a Fish on Its Rear End?p. 103
The Pentagon of Lifep. 113
An Unsung Single-Celled Herop. 119
Is the Cambrian Explosion a Sigmoid Fraud?p. 126
The Great Dyingp. 134
The Reverend Thomas' Dirty Little Planetp. 141
Uniformity and Catastrophep. 147
Velikovsky in Collisionp. 153
The Validation of Continental Driftp. 160
Size and Shapep. 171
Sizing Up Human Intelligencep. 179
History of the Vertebrate Brainp. 186
Planetary Sizes and Surfacesp. 192
On Heroes and Fools in Sciencep. 201
Posture Maketh the Manp. 207
Racism and Recapitulationp. 214
The Criminal as Nature's Mistake, or the Ape in Some of Usp. 222
Why We Should Not Name Human Races- a Biological Viewp. 231
The Nonscience of Human Naturep. 237
Racist Arguments and Iqp. 243
Biological Potentiality Vs. Biological Determinismp. 251
So Cleverly Kind an Animalp. 260
Epiloguep. 268
Bibliographyp. 272
Indexp. 277
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