Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000857268/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 27 of
27
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract "For better science students, this is a collection of 31 essays on natural history.".
- catalog contributor b1390486.
- catalog contributor b1390487.
- catalog created "c1980.".
- catalog date "1980".
- catalog date "c1980.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1980.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 324-330.".
- catalog description "For better science students, this is a collection of 31 essays on natural history.".
- catalog description "Prologue -- [pt]. 1. Perfection and imperfection : a trilogy on a panda's thumb -- 1. The panda's thumb -- 2. Senseless signs of history -- 3. Double trouble -- [pt. 2]. Darwiniana -- 4. Natural selection and the human brain : Darwin vs. Wallace -- 5. Darwin's middle road -- 6. Death before birth, or a mite's nunc dimittis -- 7. Shades of Lamarck -- 8. Caring groups and selfish genes -- [pt]. 3. Human evolution -- 9. A biological homage to Mickey Mouse -- 10. Piltdown revisited -- 11. Our greatest evolutionary step -- 12. In the midst of life -- [pt]. 4. Science and politics of human differences -- 13. Wide hats and narrow minds -- 14. Women's brains -- 15. Dr. Down's syndrome -- 16. Flaws in a Victorian veil.".
- catalog description "[pt. 5]. The pace of change -- 17. The episodic nature of evolutionary change -- 18. Return of the hopeful monster -- 19. The Great Scablands debate -- 20. A quahog is a quahog -- [pt]. 6. Early life -- 21. An early start -- 22. Crazy old Randolph Kirkpatrick -- 23. Bathybius and Eozoon -- 24. Might we fit inside a sponge's cell -- [pt]. 7. They were despised and rejected -- 25. Were dinosaurs dumb? -- 26. The telltale wishbone -- 27. Nature's odd couples -- 28. Sticking up for marsupials -- [pt]. 8. Size and time -- 29. Our allotted lifetimes -- 30. Natural attraction : bacteria, the birds and the bees -- 31. Time's vastness -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog extent "343 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0393013804".
- catalog issued "1980".
- catalog issued "c1980.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Norton,".
- catalog subject "Evolution (Biology) History.".
- catalog subject "Evolution History.".
- catalog subject "Evolution.".
- catalog subject "Natural selection History.".
- catalog subject "QH361 .G66 1980".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue -- [pt]. 1. Perfection and imperfection : a trilogy on a panda's thumb -- 1. The panda's thumb -- 2. Senseless signs of history -- 3. Double trouble -- [pt. 2]. Darwiniana -- 4. Natural selection and the human brain : Darwin vs. Wallace -- 5. Darwin's middle road -- 6. Death before birth, or a mite's nunc dimittis -- 7. Shades of Lamarck -- 8. Caring groups and selfish genes -- [pt]. 3. Human evolution -- 9. A biological homage to Mickey Mouse -- 10. Piltdown revisited -- 11. Our greatest evolutionary step -- 12. In the midst of life -- [pt]. 4. Science and politics of human differences -- 13. Wide hats and narrow minds -- 14. Women's brains -- 15. Dr. Down's syndrome -- 16. Flaws in a Victorian veil.".
- catalog tableOfContents "[pt. 5]. The pace of change -- 17. The episodic nature of evolutionary change -- 18. Return of the hopeful monster -- 19. The Great Scablands debate -- 20. A quahog is a quahog -- [pt]. 6. Early life -- 21. An early start -- 22. Crazy old Randolph Kirkpatrick -- 23. Bathybius and Eozoon -- 24. Might we fit inside a sponge's cell -- [pt]. 7. They were despised and rejected -- 25. Were dinosaurs dumb? -- 26. The telltale wishbone -- 27. Nature's odd couples -- 28. Sticking up for marsupials -- [pt]. 8. Size and time -- 29. Our allotted lifetimes -- 30. Natural attraction : bacteria, the birds and the bees -- 31. Time's vastness -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "The panda's thumb : more reflections in natural history / Stephen Jay Gould.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".