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The Richness of Life

Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN-10: 0224076078
ISBN-13: 9780224076074

This title presents a selection from across the full range of Stephen Jay Gould's writing, including some of the most famous of his essays and extracts from his major books.
I have landed
The median isn't the message
The streak of streaks
Seventh inning stretch : baseball, father, and me
Trouble in our own house : a brief legal survey from Scopes to Scalia
Of two minds and one nature
Thomas Burnet's battleground of time
The lying stones of Marrakech
The stinkstones of Oeningen
The Razumovsky duet
The power of narrative
Not necessarily a wing
Worm for a century, and all seasons
The Darwinian gentleman at Marx's funeral : resolving evolution's oddest coupling
The Piltdown conspiracy
The evolution of life on the Earth
Challenges to neo-Darwinism and their meaning for a revised view of human consciousness
The structure of evolutionary theory : revising the three central features of Darwinian logic
The episodic nature of evolutionary change
Betting on chance - and no fair peeking
The power of the modal bacter, or why the tail can't wag the dog
The great dying
The validation of continental drift
Phyletic size decrease in Hershey bars
Opus 100
Size and shape
How the zebra gets its stripes
Size and scaling in human evolution
The ladder and the cone : iconographies of progress
Up against a wall
Ontogeny and phylogeny
The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm : a critique of the adaptationist programme
More things in heaven and Earth
Posture maketh the man
Freud's evolutionary fantasy
Measuring heads : Paul Broca and the heyday of craniology
The most unkindest cut of all
A tale of two work sites
Carrie Buck's daughter
Just in the middle
Non-overlapping magisteria
The diet of worms and the defenestration of Prague
Darwin and the munchkins of Kansas
Hooking Leviathan by its past

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Publisher: Jonathan Cape
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Pages: 512
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.05" long x 1.85" tall
Weight: 1.83 lbs.
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