Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould

Vintage, 2007 - 479 pagine

Acclaimed science writer Gould explores continuity in relation to environmental deterioration and the potential massive extinction of the earth's species. The sixth volume in a series of essays begun in 1974 and first published in Natural History magazine. Author lectures.

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LibraryThing Review

Recensione dell'utente  - JBD1 - LibraryThing

More of Gould's essays from Natural History, mostly (loosely) focused on evolution. Enjoyable as usual, but also some getting a bit dated now.

EIGHT LITTLE PIGGIES: Reflections in Natural History

Recensione dell'utente  - Kirkus

Who could resist a title like that—and, knowing the author, who wouldn't surmise that Gould (Bully for Brontosaurus, 1991, etc.) is again up to his old trick of demonstrating that five fingers and ...

Informazioni sull'autore

Stephen Jay Gould was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of geology at Harvard and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the university's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He died in May 2002.

Informazioni bibliografiche

• Titolo: Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History
• Autore: Stephen Jay Gould
• Edizione: ristampa, riveduta
• Editore: Vintage, 2007
• ISBN: 0099507447, 9780099507444
• Lunghezza: 479 pagine