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Ever since Darwin : reflections in natural history
- Title
- Ever since Darwin : reflections in natural history / Stephen Jay Gould.
- Author
- Gould, Stephen Jay.
- Publication
- New York : Norton, [1977]
- ©1977
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Dedalus Foundation, donor NN
- Description
- 285 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Provides information on developments in evolutionary theory, discussing such topics as the Cambrian population explosion, Velikovsky's theories, and others.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-276) and index.
- Audience (note)
- 1250L
- Source (note)
- of the Dedalus Foundation;
- Contents
- Darwiniana : Darwin's delay -- Darwin's sea change, or five years at the captain's table -- Darwin's dilemma: the odyssey of evolution -- Darwin's untimely burial -- Human evolution : A matter of degree -- Bushes and ladders in human evolution -- The child as man's real father -- Human babies as embryos -- Odd organisms and evolutionary exemplars : The misnamed, mistreated, and misunderstood Irish elk -- Organic wisdom, or why should a fly eat its mother from inside -- Of bamboos, cicadas, and the economy of Adam Smith -- The problem of perfection, or how can a clam mount a fish on its rear end? -- Patterns and punctuations in the history of life : The pentagon of life -- An unsung single-celled hero -- Is the Cambrian explosion a sigmoid fraud? -- The great dying -- Theories of the earth : The Reverend Thomas' dirty little planet -- Uniformity and catastrophe -- Velikovsky in collision -- The validation of continental drift -- Size and shape, from churches to brains to planets : Size and shape -- Sizing up human intelligence -- History of the vertebrate brain -- Planetary sizes and surfaces -- Science in society--a historical view : On heroes and fools in science -- Posture maketh the man -- Racism and recapitulation -- The criminal as nature's mistake, or the ape in some of us -- The science and politics of human nature : Race, sex, and violence : Why we should not name human races--a biological view -- The nonscience of human nature -- Racist arguments and IQ -- Sociobiology : Biological potentiality vs. biological determinism -- So cleverly kind an animal.
- Call Number
- JFD 78-286
- ISBN
- 0393064255
- 9780393064254
- 9780393308181
- 0393308189
- 0393009173
- 9780393009170
- LCCN
- 77022504
- OCLC
- 3090189
- Author
- Gould, Stephen Jay.
- Title
- Ever since Darwin : reflections in natural history / Stephen Jay Gould.
- Publisher
- New York : Norton, [1977]
- Copyright Date
- ©1977
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-276) and index.
- Audience
- 1250L Lexile
- Local Note
- Copy in ReCAP 24-5381 inscribed.
- Source
- Gift; of the Dedalus Foundation; 2024. NN
- Added Author
- Dedalus Foundation, donor NN
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 24-5381JFD 78-286