The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
by Gould, Stephen JayEdition: 00
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-08-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical acclaim. Reissued in a larger format, with a handsome new cover, The Panda's Thumb will introduce a new generation of readers to this unique writer, who has taken the art of the scientific essay to new heights.
Table of Contents
| Prologue | p. 11 |
| The Panda's Thumb | p. 19 |
| Senseless Signs of History | p. 27 |
| Double Trouble | p. 35 |
| Natural Selection and the Human Brain: Darwin Vs. Wallace | p. 47 |
| Darwin's Middle Road | p. 59 |
| Death Before Birth, or a Mite's Nunc Dimittis | p. 69 |
| Shades of Lamarck | p. 76 |
| Caring Groups and Selfish Genes | p. 85 |
| A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse | p. 95 |
| Piltdown Revisited | p. 108 |
| Our Greatest Evolutionary Step | p. 125 |
| In the Midst of Life .. | p. 134 |
| Wide Hats and Narrow Minds | p. 145 |
| Women's Brains | p. 152 |
| Dr. Down's Syndrome | p. 160 |
| Flaws in a Victorian Veil | p. 169 |
| The Episodic Nature of Evolutionary Change | p. 179 |
| Return of the Hopeful Monster | p. 186 |
| The Great Scablands Debate | p. 194 |
| A Quahog is a Quahog | p. 204 |
| An Early Start | p. 217 |
| Crazy Old Randolph Kirkpatrick | p. 227 |
| Bathybius and Eozoon | p. 236 |
| Might We Fit Inside a Sponge's Cell | p. 245 |
| Were Dinosaurs Dumb? | p. 259 |
| The Telltale Wishbone | p. 267 |
| Nature's Odd Couples | p. 278 |
| References and Notes | p. 285 |
| References and Notes | p. 287 |
| Sticking Up for Marsupials | p. 289 |
| Our Allotted Lifetimes | p. 299 |
| Natural Attraction: Bacteria, the Birds and the Bees | p. 306 |
| Time's Vastness | p. 315 |
| Bibliography | p. 324 |
| Index | p. 331 |
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