An edition of The flamingo's smile (1985)

The flamingo's smile

reflections in natural history

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Cover of: The flamingo's smile by Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Jay Gould
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An edition of The flamingo's smile (1985)

The flamingo's smile

reflections in natural history

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"THE FLAMINGO'S SMILE is about history," writes the author in this volume of essays, "...and about what it means to say that life is the product of a contingent past, not the inevitable and predictable result of simple, timeless laws of nature. Quirkiness and meaning are my two not-so-contradictory themes."

Flamingos that feed upside down; flowers and snails that change from male to female; the probability that an errant asteroid sounded the death knell of the dinosaurs and ushered in the evolution of mankind...these are only a few of the things that open our eyes to the endless delights of Gould's subject...evolutionary theory.

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Norton, W W Norton & Co Inc
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English
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476

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Addresses, essays, lectures, Natural history, Biologie, Evolutie, Paleontologie, Geologie, Dierkunde, Aufsatzsammlung, Science, Miscellanea, Natural selection, History, Evolution, Essays

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1986, Penguin
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Cover of: The flamingo's smile
The flamingo's smile: reflections in natural history
1985, Norton, W W Norton & Co Inc
in English - 1st ed.
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Bibliography: p. 451-458.
Includes index.

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508
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QH81 .G673 1985, QH81.G673 1985

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