- Evolution (Biology), Natural history, Philosophy, Popular works
Contemplative essays speaking often of the importance of the unbroken connection of modern man and our ancestors.
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- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Stephen Jay Gould
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 479
- Publisher
- Seuil, Norton, Penguin Books Ltd
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9780140179941
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“TAHITI IS THE STEREOTYPE, virtually the synonym, of enchantment in our legends.”
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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