Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History
- ISBN-10
- 0224037161
- ISBN-13
- 9780224037167
- Series
- Eight Little Piggies
- Category
- Evolution
- Pages
- 479
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Stephen Jay Gould
Description
This collection of essays range 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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