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

by Stephen Jay Gould

Hardcover, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

508

Publication

Harmony (1998), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 416 pages

Description

With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature's and humanity's diversity and order.

User reviews

LibraryThing member monado
Essays about the byways of human thought about evolution. Gould's essays are getting longer and more complex.
LibraryThing member Devil_llama
Contains a good discussion of the defenstration of Prague.
LibraryThing member JBD1
Gould's essay volumes seem to get generally better over time, or at least more readable and intriguing as he comes up with more interesting connections and arguments.

Language

Original publication date

1998

Physical description

416 p.; 9.38 inches

ISBN

0609601415 / 9780609601419
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