Eight little piggies : reflections in natural history
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Eight little piggies : reflections in natural history
（Penguin science）
Penguin, 1994
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注記
Bibliography: p. 457-465
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This collection of essays ranges from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over palaeontology to the origins of language. 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 man's ancestors had inherited a couple of genes in a different form - our canonical number, based on man's fingers and toes, might be eight instead of ten. Stephen Jay Gould has also written "Wonderful Life", "Bully for Brontosaurus" and "Finders Keepers".
目次
- Part 1 The scale of extinction: unenchanted evening
- the golden rule - a proper scale for our environmental crisis
- losing a limpet. Part 2 Odd bits of vertebrate anatomy: eight little piggies
- bent out of shape
- an earful of jaw
- full of hot air. Part 3 Vox populi: evolving visions - men of the thirty-third division - an essay on integrity, Darwin and Paley meet the invisible hand, more light on leaves
- time in Newton's century - on rereading Edmund Halley, fall in the house of Ussher. Part 4 Musings: clouds of memory - Muller bros. moving and storage, shoemaker and morning star
- authenticity - in touch with Walcott, counters and cable cars. Part 5 Human nature: Mozart and modularity
- the moral state of Tahiti - and of Darwin
- ten thousand acts of kindness
- the declining empire of apes. Part 6 Grand patterns of evolution: two steps towards a general theory of life's complexity - the wheel of fortune and the wedge of progress, tires to sandals
- new discoveries in the earliest history of multicellular life - defending the heretical and the superfluous, the reversal of "Hallucigenia". Part 7 Revising and extending Darwin: what the immaculate pigeon teaches the burdened mind
- the great seal principle
- a dog's life in Galton's polyhedron
- betting on chance - and no fair peeking. Part 8 Reversals - fragments of a book not written: shields of expectation - and actuality
- a tale of three pictures
- a foot soldier for evolution.
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