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Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-09-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell thes
Language: en
Pages: 257
Pages: 257
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variat
Language: en
Pages: 1460
Pages: 1460
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-03-21 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
The world’s most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time—a landmark publica
Language: en
Pages: 480
Pages: 480
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-29 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
"Gould himself is a rare and wonderful animal—a member of the endangered species known as the ruby-throated polymath. . . . [He] is a leading theorist on larg
Language: en
Pages: 544
Pages: 544
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-29 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ide