Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould

2020-07-21 13:29:21

In this collection, Dr. Gould consciously and unconventionally formulates a humanistic natural history, a consideration of how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself. With his customary brilliance, ... Read more
In this collection, Dr. Gould consciously and unconventionally formulates a humanistic natural history, a consideration of how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself. With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature's and humanity's diversity and order. In affecting short biographies. he depicts how scholars grapple with problems of science and philosophy as he illuminates the interaction of the outer world with the unique human ability to struggle to understand the whys and wherefores of existence. Less

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File size6.40x9.38x1.42inches
Print pages416
PublisherHarmony
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780609601419
Stephen Jay Gould (Sep 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popula...

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