- History, Natural selection, Evolution, Evolution (Biology)
For better science students, this is a collection of 31 essays on natural history.
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Cool, spare, classical in form and warm.
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Stephen Jay Gould
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 343
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Norton, Contact
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Dutch, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780736612241
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“FEW HEROES LOWER their sights in the prime of their lives; triumph leads inexorably on, often to destruction.”
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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