The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

by Gould, Stephen Jay

• ISBN13: 9780393022285
• ISBN10: 0393022285
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1985-09-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

"His fourth volume of imaginative, witty essays...equals Gould's prize-winning The Panda's Thumb and The Mismeasure of Man".--Publisher's Weekly. Photographs.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 13
The Flamingo's Smile	p. 23
Only His Wings Remained	p. 40
Sex and Size	p. 56
Living with Connections	p. 64
A Most Ingenious Paradox	p. 78
Adam's Navel	p. 99
The Freezing of Noah	p. 114
False Premise, Good Science	p. 126
For Want of a Metaphor	p. 139
Of Wasps and Wasps	p. 155
Opus 100	p. 167
Human Equality is a Contingent Fact of History	p. 185
The Rule of Five	p. 199
Losing the Edge	p. 215
Death and Transfiguration	p. 230
Reducing Riddles	p. 245
To Show an Ape	p. 263
Bound by the Great Chain	p. 281
The Hottentot Venus	p. 291
Carrie Buck's Daughter	p. 306
Singapore's Patrimony (And Matrimony)	p. 319
Hannah West's Left Shoulder and the Origin of Natural Selection	p. 335
Darwin at Sea-and the Virtues of Port	p. 347
A Short Way to Corn	p. 360
Just in the Middle	p. 377
Mind and Supermind	p. 392
Seti and the Wisdom of Casey Stengel	p. 403
Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs	p. 417
Continuity	p. 427
The Cosmic Dance of Siva	p. 438
Bibliography	p. 451
Index	p. 459
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