UID:
almahu_9949481316402882
Format:
1 online resource (496 p.) :
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9 halftones, 21 line illustrations
ISBN:
9780674063426
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9783110261189
Content:
From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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Come Seven --
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PART ONE. HEAVEN AND EARTH --
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1. Happy Thoughts on a Sunny Day in New York City --
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2. Dousing Diminutive Dennis's Debate (or DODD= 2000) --
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3. The Celestial Mechanic and the Earthly Naturalist --
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4. The Late Birth of a Flat Earth --
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PART TWO. LITERATURE AND SCIENCE --
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5· The Monster's Human Nature --
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6. The Tooth and Claw Centennial --
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7. Sweetness and Light --
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PART THREE. ORIGIN, STABILITY, AND EXTINCTION --
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ORIGIN --
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8. In the Mind of the Beholder --
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9. Of Tongue Worms, Velvet Worms, and Water Bears --
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STABILITY --
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10. Cordelia's Dilemma --
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11. Lucy on the Earth in Stasis --
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EXTINCTION --
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12. Dinosaur in a Haystack --
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13. Jove's Thunderbolts --
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PART FOUR. WRITING ABOUT SNAILS --
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14. Poe's Greatest Hit --
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15. The Invisible Woman --
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16. Left Snails and Right Minds --
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PART FIVE: THE GLORY OF MUSEUMS --
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17. Dinomania --
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18. Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O! --
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19. Evolution by Walking --
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20. The Razumovsky Duet --
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21. Four Antelopes of the Apocalypse --
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PART SIX. DISPARATE FACES OF EUGENICS --
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22. Does the Stoneless Plum Instruct the Thinking Reed? --
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23. The Smoking Gun of Eugenics --
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24. The Most Unkindest Cut of All --
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PART SEVEN. EVOLUTIONARY THEORY, EVOLUTIONARY STORIES --
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THEORY --
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25. Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution? --
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26. A Humongous Fungus Among Us --
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27. Speaking of Snails and Scales --
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STORIES --
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28. Hooking Leviathan by Its Past --
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29. A Special Fondness for Beetles --
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30. If Kings Can Be Hermits, Then We Are All Monkeys' Uncles --
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31. Magnolias from Moscow --
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PART EIGHT. LINNAEUS AND DARWIN'S GRANDFATHER --
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32. The First Unmasking of Nature --
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33. Ordering Nature by Budding and Full-Breasted Sexuality --
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34. Four Metaphors in Three Generations --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011, De Gruyter, 9783110261189
In:
E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2011, De Gruyter, 9783110261233
In:
E-BOOK PAKET SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE 2011, De Gruyter, 9783110261202
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4159/harvard.9780674063426
URL:
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674063426
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674063426
