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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essaysby Gould,Stephen Jay
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Book DescriptionAs New in As New DJ.Not price clipped (25.00). period pictures,drawings Natural History Harmony Books 1998 1st edition. hardcover. 422 pages., 1st edition,1st printing.Not clipped,no markings.Not remaindered. Mint,1st edition. Book summaryA collection of essays about the variety of ways in which humans have come to study and understand natural history.Media Reviews"...here again Gould artfully transports readers through the complex and enchanting realms of the natural world." -- Publishers Weekly "...Gould's immense respect for nature's biodiversity, combined with the humbling recognition that "all life on earth...shares an astonishing range of detailed biochemical similarities," renders these remarkable essays both entertaining and inspirational." Publisher NotesLeonardos Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Goulds popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). It is also the first of the final three such collections, since Dr. Gould has announced that the series will end with the turn of the millennium. In this collection, Gould consciously and unconventionally formulates a humanistic natural history, a consideration of how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself. With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build natures and humanity's diversity and order. In affecting short biographies, he depicts how scholars grapple with problems of science and philosophy as he illuminates the interaction of the outer world with the unique human ability to struggle to understand the whys and wherefores of existence. In this collection, the scientist consciously and unconventionally formulates a humanistic natural history, a consideration of how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself. These are Dr. Gould's popular essays from "Natural History" magazine. 30 illustrations. Other Recommended Books
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