Eight Little Piggies

Reflections in Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

480 Seiten

2007
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-950744-4 (ISBN)

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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 book deploys this, which is one of the oddities of history.

No one illuminates the wonderful workings of the natural world as perceptively and enjoyably as Stephen Jay Gould. In this volume of reflections on biology, history and culture, Gould addresses the burning issues of ecological crisis and contemporary species extinctions as well as giving us fascinating insights into evolution - such as the fact that the first land vertebrates had up to eight toes on each foot, and that the ichthyosaur had a very significant kink in its tail.

Stephen Jay Gould was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of geology at Harvard and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the university's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He died in May 2002.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2007
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
ISBN-10	0-09-950744-7 / 0099507447
ISBN-13	978-0-09-950744-4 / 9780099507444
Zustand	Neuware