- Evolution, Evolution (Biology), History, Natural selection
Provides information on developments in evolutionary theory, discussing such topics as the Cambrian population explosion, Velikovsky's theories, and others.
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Cool, classical in form, earnest and spare.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Stephen Jay Gould
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 285
- Publisher
- Seuil, Het Spectrum, W.W. Norton
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- heb, Portuguese, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780140222227
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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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