| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 324-330. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- [pt]. 1. Perfection and imperfection : a trilogy on a panda's thumb -- 1. The panda's thumb -- 2. Senseless signs of history -- 3. Double trouble -- [pt. 2]. Darwiniana -- 4. Natural selection and the human brain : Darwin vs. Wallace -- 5. Darwin's middle road -- 6. Death before birth, or a mite's nunc dimittis -- 7. Shades of Lamarck -- 8. Caring groups and selfish genes -- [pt]. 3. Human evolution -- 9. A biological homage to Mickey Mouse -- 10. Piltdown revisited -- 11. Our greatest evolutionary step -- 12. In the midst of life -- [pt]. 4. Science and politics of human differences -- 13. Wide hats and narrow minds -- 14. Women's brains -- 15. Dr. Down's syndrome -- 16. Flaws in a Victorian veil -- |
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[pt. 5]. The pace of change -- 17. The episodic nature of evolutionary change -- 18. Return of the hopeful monster -- 19. The Great Scablands debate -- 20. A quahog is a quahog -- [pt]. 6. Early life -- 21. An early start -- 22. Crazy old Randolph Kirkpatrick -- 23. Bathybius and Eozoon -- 24. Might we fit inside a sponge's cell -- [pt]. 7. They were despised and rejected -- 25. Were dinosaurs dumb? -- 26. The telltale wishbone -- 27. Nature's odd couples -- 28. Sticking up for marsupials -- [pt]. 8. Size and time -- 29. Our allotted lifetimes -- 30. Natural attraction : bacteria, the birds and the bees -- 31. Time's vastness -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
For better science students, this is a collection of 31 essays on natural history. |
| Subject |
Evolution (Biology) -- History.
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Natural selection -- History.
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| ISBN |
0393013804 |
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9780393013801 |
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