Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History

ISBN-10
0140179941
ISBN-13
9780140179941
Series
Eight Little Piggies
Category
Evolution
Pages
479
Language
English
Published
1994
Author
Stephen Jay Gould

Description

This collection of essays ranges from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over palaeontology to the origins of language. 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 man's ancestors had inherited a couple of genes in a different form - our canonical number, based on man's fingers and toes, might be eight instead of ten. Stephen Jay Gould has also written Wonderful Life, Bully for Brontosaurus and Finders Keepers.

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