Bibliograph

Bully for brontosaurus, reflections in natural history, Stephen Jay Gould

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Bully for brontosaurus, reflections in natural history, Stephen Jay Gould

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-524) and index

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bully for brontosaurus

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

26493407

Responsibility statement

Stephen Jay Gould

Sub title

reflections in natural history

Summary

A collection of thirty-five essays--representing the best of the column "This View of Life" from "Natural History" magazine--focuses on the themes of evolution and of the innumerable oddities of nature

Table Of Contents

George Canning's left buttock and the origin of species -- Grimm's greatest tale -- The creation myths of Cooperstown -- The panda's thumb of technology -- Bully for brontosaurus -- The dinosaur rip-off -- Of kiwi eggs and the Liberty Bell -- Male nipples and clitoral ripples -- Not necessarily a wing -- The case of the creeping fox terrier clone -- Life's little joke -- The chain of reason versus the chain of thumbs -- Madame Jeanette -- Red wings in the susnset -- Petrus camper's angle -- Literary bias on the slippery slope -- Glow, big glowworm -- To be a platypus -- Bligh's bounty -- Here goes nothing -- In a jumbled drawer -- Kropotkin was no crackpot -- Fleeming Jenkin revisited -- The passion of Antoine Lavoisier -- The godfather of disaster -- Knight takes Bishop? -- Genesis and geology -- William Jennigs Bryan's last campaign -- An essay on a pig roast -- Justice Scalia's misunderstanding -- The streak of streaks -- The median isn't the message -- The ant and the plant -- The face of Miranda -- The horn of Triton

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