Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould does the wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of collected essays—his sixth since Ever Since Darwin—Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives and to our ancestral generations. Along with way, he opens to us the mysteries of fish tails, frog calls, and other matters, and shows once and for all why we must take notice when a seemingly insignificant creature is threatened, like the land snail Partula from Moorea, whose extinction he movingly relates.
Eight Little Piggies : Reflections in Natural History
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An Elementary Manual of New Zealand Entomology : Being an Introduction to the Study of Our Native Insects
Deadly Feasts : Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
Climbing Up on the Rough Side
What the Taliban Told Me
The Secret Lives of Bats : My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
A Cosmic Journey : From the Big Bang to Black Holes
The Volunteer : The Failure of the Death Penalty in America and One Inmate's Quest to Die with Dignity
Dinosaurs
The Apocryphal Gospels : A Very Short Introduction
The Phantom Killer
How to Grow a Human : Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made
A Fire in His Soul : Van Gogh, Paris, and the Making of an Artist
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes : Further Reflections in Natural History
The Flamingo's Smile : Reflections in Natural History
Bully for Brontosaurus : Reflections in Natural History
The Panda's Thumb : More Reflections in Natural History
Ever Since Darwin : Reflections in Natural History
Wonderful Life : The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
The Mismeasure of Man
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