Essays examine the accomplishments of Charles Darwin, his theory of evolution, and his impact on society and science

Darwin's Legacy: Nobel Conference XVIII

Science & Math

Gould, Stephen Jay.

Nobel Conference 1982 (Gustavus Adolphus College)

Hamrum, Charles L.

Evolution

Harpercollins

This text is a metaphor for the way individuals and unpredictable events influence history. In response history, suggests the author, is the best model for evolution. The author explores the science of improbable outcomes in this wide ranging book written on the evolutionary theme.

Bully for Brontosaurus

Biological Sciences

Hutchinson Radius

Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Random House UK; First Edition edition (November 27, 1992) Language: English

Finders Keepers

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Centres on a sensational discovery in the field of palaeontology - the existence in the Burgess Shale of 530-million-year-old-fossils, unique in age, preservation and diversity.

Wonderful Life

History & Philosophy

W.W.Norton

Presenting the compelling story of life on earth, this book brings together the latest findings in evolutionary science. The drawings include reconstructions of creatures long extinct, seen in their own habitat. The contributors include Peter Andrews, a leading palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum; Michael Benton, a leading expert on mammal evolution; Christopher Stringer, an expert on mammal evolution and Jack Sepkoski, who teaches and researches early life forms at Chicago.

Book Of Life

Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Ever since the last 1970s, his monthly essay in Natural History and his full-length books have bridged the yawning gap between science and the wider culture. This fascinating new collection of essays contains some of Gould's bestw riting on a variety of subjects ranging from Leonardo da Vinci and Martin Luther to fossils and the history of science. As always, these essays brillantly display his gift for colloquial and vivid explanation, and include fascinating oddities from the natural world and the printed word.

Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world. In characteristic form, Gould weaves the ideas of some of Western society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to E. O. Wilson, with the uncelebrated ideas of lesser-known yet pivotal intellectuals. He uses their ides to undo an assumption born in the seventeenth century and continuing to this day, that science and the humanities stand in opposition. Gould uses the metaphor of the hedgehog - who goes after one thing at a measured pace, systematically investigating all; the fox - skilled at many things, intuitive and fast; and the magister's pox - a censure from the Catholic Church involved in Galileo's downfall: to illustrate the different ways of responding to knowledge - in a scientific, humanistic or fearful way. He argues that in fact each would benefit by borrowing from the other.

The Hedgehog@@ the Fox and the Magister's Pox : Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities

History

Europe

Vintage

The title is a pun, and as always with Gould, the joke has a point that illustrates the largest pattern of life's history. For millennia the animals that populated the earth had four toes on each foot, or six. If evolution had taken a tiny shift - if our ancestors had inherited a couple of genes in a different form - our canonical number, based on our fingers and toes, might be eight instead of ten. This is just one of the oddities of history that Gould deploys in this wonderfully readable book.

Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History

Vintage Books

Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Throughout his work Gould has developed a distinctive and personal form of essay to treat great scientific issues in the context of biography. Here, Gould once again applied biographical perspectives to the illumination of ke

I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

190p this is a virtually a new copy without any traces of use.

Questioning the Millennium

World

Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random

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