The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections In Natural History
Review It is a wonder what Mr. Gould can do with the most unlikely phenomena: a tiny organism's use of the earth's magnetic field as a guide to food and comfort, for instance, or the panda's thumb-which isn't one. . . . Science writing at its best. (The New Yorker) Stephen Jay Gould is a serious...
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Review It is a wonder what Mr. Gould can do with the most unlikely phenomena: a tiny organism's use of the earth's magnetic field as a guide to food and comfort, for instance, or the panda's thumb-which isn't one. . . . Science writing at its best. (The New Yorker) Stephen Jay Gould is a serious and gifted interpreter of biological theory, of the history of ideas and of the cultural context of scientific discovery. . . . The Panda's Thumb is fresh and mind-stretching. Above all, it is exultant. So should its readers be. (H. Jack Geiger - New York Times Book Review)
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393300239 (0393300234)
Publish date: May 1st 1982
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Science,
Popular Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Biology,
Science Nature,
Evolution
Series: Reflections in Natural History (#2)
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