343 pages. 8vo, blue cloth-backed boards, d.w. (stained, edgeworn). New York: Norton, (1980). First Edition. Outer page edges heavily spotted, internally clean and tight. Good in a good dust wrapper. With the Erratum slip.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Publisher

Norton, New York

Publication Date

1980

Language

English

ISBN 10

0393013804

ISBN 13

9780393013801

Binding

hardcover

Edition

First.

Condition

good

Dust Jacket Condition

good

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Gould, Stephen Jay. The Panda's Thumb - More Reflections in Natural History. First Edition. Toronto, George J. McLeod, 1980. 14.5cm x 21.5cm. 343 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Gould delights and instructs us, deepening and extending his examination of evolution, a centrepiece of modern science. Were dinosaurs really dumber than lizards? Why, after all, are roughly the same number of men and women born into the world? What led the famous Dr.Down to his theory of mongolism, and its racist residue? How does Mickey Mouse's evolution mirror our own? What do the panda's magical thumb and the sea turtle's perilous migration tell us about imperfections that prove the evolutionary rule? These questions lie on a continuum between timeless science and singular history and touch us all. Never have their sweet and bitter mysteries been explained with such wit, beauty and elegance. Includes the following chapters: Perfection and Imperfection: A Trilogy on a Panda's Thumb, Natural Selection and the Human Brain: Darwin vs Wallace, Darwin's Middle Road, A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse, Piltdown Revisted, Our Greatest Evolutionary Step.

Review

Stephen Jay Gould is a serious and gifted interpreter of biological theory, of the history of ideas and of the cultural context of scientific discovery. . . . "The Panda's Thumb" is fresh and mind-stretching. Above all, it is exultant. So should its readers be. --H. Jack Geiger"

It is a wonder what Mr. Gould can do with the most unlikely phenomena: a tiny organism's use of the earth's magnetic field as a guide to food and comfort, for instance, or the panda's thumb--which isn't one...Science writing at its best.

Gould can do no wrong...As long as he writes, you cannot help but read--and enjoy.--Isaac Asimov

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