- Natural history, Evolution (Biology), Natuurlijke historie, Evolutie
From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution.
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- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen Jay Gould
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Audio Literature, Random House/Harmony Books, Three Rivers Press
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780674061606
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“GALILEO DESCRIBED THE UNIVERSE in his most famous line: "This grand book is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures."”
Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. - Wikipedia
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