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An Urchin in the Storm by Stephen Jay Gould
$20.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Ranging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism", and evolutionary theory in this lively collection.
Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science
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
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from "Natural History" magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). It is also the first of the final three such collections, since Dr. Gould ...Show more
Punctuated Equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould
$37.95 AUD
Category: Science
In 1972, Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the career of one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of our time - perhaps the best ...Show more
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities by Stephen Jay Gould
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In his ?nal book and his ?rst full-length original title since Full House in 1996, the eminent paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been div ...Show more
The Richness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. It is still more unlikely that the title should have been conferred on a man regarded by many in the US as a notorious radical and sometime Marxist - controversial throug ...Show more
The Richness of Life : the essential Stephen Jay Gould by Stephen Jay Gould (ed Paul McGarr & Steven Rose)
$65.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. It is still more unlikely that the title should have been conferred on a man regarded by many in the US as a notorious radical and sometime Marxist - controversial throug ...Show more
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
$24.50 AUD
Category: Science
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burg ...Show more
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