The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Record no. 37321)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780393300239
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ISBN 0393300234
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 575.0162
Item number GOU
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Gould, Stephen Jay ;
245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication New York :
Name of publisher W.W.Norton & Company,
Year of publication ©1980.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 343 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ; 18 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Included Bibliography & Index
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Prologue --<br/>[Part] 1 : Perfection and imperfection : a trilogy on a panda's thumb --<br/>The panda's thumb --<br/>Senseless signs of history --<br/>Double trouble --<br/>[Part] 2 : Darwiniana --<br/>Natural selection and the human brain : Darwin vs. Wallace --<br/>Darwin's middle road --<br/>Death before birth, or a mite's nunc dimittis --<br/>Shades of Lamarck --<br/>Caring groups and selfish genes --<br/>[Part] 3 : Human evolution --<br/>A biological homage to Mickey Mouse --<br/>Piltdown revisited --<br/>Our greatest evolutionary step --<br/>In the midst of life --<br/>[Part] 4 : Science and politics of human differences --<br/>Wide hats and narrow minds --<br/>Women's brains --<br/>Dr. Down's syndrome --<br/>Flaws in a Victorian veil --<br/>[Part] 5 : The pace of change --<br/>The episodic nature of evolutionary change --<br/>Return of the hopeful monster --<br/>The Great Scablands debate --<br/>A quahog is a quahog --<br/>[Part] 6 : Early life --<br/>An early start --<br/>Crazy old Randolph Kirkpatrick --<br/>Bathybius and Eozoon --<br/>Might we fit inside a sponge's cell --<br/>[Part] 7 : They were despised and rejected --<br/>Were dinosaurs dumb? --<br/>The telltale wishbone --<br/>Nature's odd couples --<br/>Sticking up for marsupials --<br/>[Part] 8 : Size and time --<br/>Our allotted lifetimes --<br/>Natural attraction : bacteria, the birds and the bees --<br/>Time's vastness.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc A collection of essays by reknown scientist Jay Stephen Gould drawn from his columns in Natural History. The essays deal with topics such as: evolutionary opportunism (nature is a tinkerer, making the most of what's available in the course of adapting to the environment); new information on Darwin and his contemporaries; racism and cultural relativism; the evolutionary pattern of sudden rapid change; the origin of birds or the warm-bloodedness of dinosaurs; and, Teilhard de Chardin as a co-conspirator in the Piltdown hoax.
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Topical Term Evolution -- History.
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Topical Term Natural selection -- History.
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Topical Term Evolution.
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Koha item type Reference Books
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Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Full call number Accession Number Koha item type
Reference Main Library Main Library Reference 08/08/2001 Donation 262.00 575.0162 GOU 006840 Reference Books

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