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Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould
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Category: Science and Nature
The title is a pun, and as always with Gould, the joke has a point that illustrates the largest pattern of life's history. For millennia the animals that populated the earth had four toes on each foot, or six. If evolution had taken a tiny shift - if our ancestors had inherited a couple of genes in a di ...Show more
Life's Grandeur : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
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Category: Science and Nature
Argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth. This book states that if we wish to see grandeur in life, we must discard our selfish and anthropocentric view of evolution and learn to see it as Darwin did, as the unfathomably rich source of ...Show more
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