Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould
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 different form - our canonical number, based on our fingers and toes, might be eight instead of ten. This is just one of the oddities of history that Gould deploys in this wonderfully readable book.
Stephen Jay Gould's books include The Mismeasure of Man, The Flamingo's Smile, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle, Bully for Brontosaurus and the international bestseller Wonderful Life. He teaches biology, geology and the history of science at Harvard University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224037167 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224037161 |
| Title | Eight Little Piggies |
| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1993-01-28 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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