| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Essays originally published in the Natural history magazine. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-467) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Heaven and Earth: Happy thoughts on a sunny day in New York City -- Dousing diminutive Dennis's debate (or DDDD=2000) -- The celestial mechanic and the earthly naturalist -- The late birth of a flat Earth -- pt. 2. Literature and science: The monster's human nature -- The tooth and claw centennial -- Sweetness and light -- pt. 3. Origin, stability, and extinction: [1.] Origin: In the mond of the beholder -- Of tongue worms, velvet worms, and water bears -- [2.] Stability: Cordelia's dilemma -- Lucy on the Earth in stasis -- [3.] Extinction: Dinosaur in a haystack -- Jove's thunderbolts -- pt. 4. Writing about snails: Poe's greatest hit -- The invisible woman -- Left snails and right minds -- pt. 5. The glory of museums: Dinomania -- Cabinet museums: alive alive, O! -- Evolution by walking -- The Razumovsky Duet -- Four antelopes of the apocalypse -- pt. 6. Disparate faces of eugenics: Does the stoneless plum instruct the thinking reed? -- The smoking gun of eugenics -- The most unkindest cut of all -- pt. 7. Evolutionary theory, evolutionary stories: [1.] Theory: Can we complete Darwin's revolution? -- A humongous fungus among us -- Speaking of snails and scales -- [2.] Stories: Hooking Leviathan by its past -- A special fondness for beetles -- If kings can be hermits, then we are all monkey's uncles -- Magnolias from Moscow -- pt. 8. Linnaeus and Darwin's grandfather: The first unmasking of nature -- Ordering nature by budding and full-breasted sexuality -- Four metaphors in three generations. |
| Subject |
Evolution (Biology)
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Natural history.
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| ISBN |
0517703939 |
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