| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
I have landed -- No science without fancy, no art without facts : the lepidoptery of Vladimir Nabokov -- Jim Bowie's letter and Bill Buckner's legs -- True embodiment of everything that's excellent -- Art meets science in The heart of the Andes : Church paints, Humboldt dies, Darwin writes, and nature blinks in the fateful year of 1859 -- Darwinian gentleman at Marx's funeral : resolving evolution's oddest coupling -- Pre-Adamite in a nutshell -- Freud's evolutionary fantasy -- Jew and the jewstone -- When fossils were young -- Syphilis and the shepherd of Atlantis -- Darwin and the munchkins of Kansas -- Darwin's more stately mansion -- Darwin for all reasons -- When less is truly more -- Darwin's cultural degree -- Without and within of smart mice -- What does the dreaded "E" word mean anyway? -- First day of the rest of our life -- Narthex of San Marco and the pangenetic paradigm -- Linnaeus's luck? -- Abscheulich! (atrocious) -- Tales of a feathered tail -- Evolutionary perspective on the concept of native plants -- Age-old fallacies of thinking and stinking -- Geometer of race -- Great physiologist of Heidelberg -- Good people of Halifax -- Apple brown betty -- Woolworth Building -- September 11, '01. |
| Subject |
Natural history.
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Evolution (Biology)
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| ISBN |
0609601431 hardcover |
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