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by Stephen Jay Gould (Author)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (7 April 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140179941
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140179941
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 758,317 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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`Witty, paradoxical, polymathic, Gould is a wonderfully lively
advocate for evolution' --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Very intelligible scientific essays, 26 April 2000
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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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