Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History (Penguin Science S.)

Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History (Penguin Science S.)

by StephenJayGould (Author)

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This collection of essays ranges from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over palaeontology to the origins of language. The title is a pun and as always with Gould, the joke has a point that illustrates the largest pattern of life's history. For millennia, the animals that populated the Earth had four toes on each foot, or six. If evolution had taken a tiny shift - if man's ancestors had inherited a couple of genes in a different form - our canonical number, based on man's fingers and toes, might be eight instead of ten. Stephen Jay Gould has also written "Wonderful Life", "Bully for Brontosaurus" and "Finders Keepers".

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: New
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 07 Apr 1994

ISBN 10: 0140179941
ISBN 13: 9780140179941