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The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History

By Stephen Jay Gould

Book information

Publisher
Vintage/Ebury
Year
2001
ISBN
0099285835, 9780099285830
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2137580 bytes)
Pages
384\0
Time added
2015-03-14 18:54:04

Description

Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Ever since the late 1970s up until till his death in 2002, his monthly essay in Natural History and his full-length books bridged the yawning gap between science and wider culture. In this fascinating new collection of essays from Natural History, Gould applied biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the origins of palaeontology to modern eugenics and genetic engineering. The essays brilliantly illuminate and elucidate the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that have fuelled the enterprise of science and opened our eyes to a world of unexpected wonders.

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