Leonardo's mountain of clams and the Diet of Worms : essays on natural history / Stephen Jay Gould.
Leonardo's mountain of clams and the Diet of Worms : essays on natural history / Stephen Jay Gould.
Leonardo's mountain of clams and the Diet of Worms : essays on natural history / Stephen Jay Gould.
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New York : Harmony Books, c1998.
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T0390898
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English
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422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
pt. 1. Art and science -- ch. 1. Upwardly mobile fossils of Leonardo's living earth -- ch. 2. Great Western and the fighting Temeraire -- ch. 3. Seeing eye to eye, through a glass clearly -- pt. 2. Biographies in evolution -- ch. 4. Clam stripped bare by her naturalists, even -- ch. 5. Darwin's Amer...
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Publisher
New York : Harmony Books, c1998.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c1998.
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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). In this collection, Gould consciously and unconventionally formulates a humanistic natural history, a consideration of how...
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Leonardo's mountain of clams and the Diet of Worms : essays on natural history / Stephen Jay Gould.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-411) and index.
Transferred from N508/211.
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c1998.
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T0390898
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0609601415
9780609601419
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508
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991001897069702626
