- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (7 April 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140179941
- ISBN-13: 978-0140179941
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13.2 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,011,966 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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Gould is excellent at taking a scientific curiosity , analysing it and explaining it in non-patronising layman's language. A good book to browse or to read right through, and thought provoking too.
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