The panda's thumb : more reflections in natural history
For better science students, this is a collection of 31 essays on natural history
History
343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780393013801, 9780393308198, 9781439505205, 0393013804, 0393308197, 1439505209
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Perfection and imperfection: a trilogy on a panda’s thumb : The panda’s thumb
Senseless signs of history
Double trouble
Darwiniana : Natural selection and the human brain: Darwin vs. Wallace
Darwin’s middle road
Death before birth, or a mite’s Nunc dimittis
Shades of Lamarck
Caring groups and selfish genes
Human evolution : A biological homage to Mickey Mouse
Piltdown revisited
Our greatest evolutionary step
In the midst of life…
Science and politics of human differences : Wide hats and narrow minds
Women’s brains
Dr. Down’s syndrome
Flaws in a Victorian veil
The pace of change : The episodic nature of evolutionary change
Return of the hopeful monster
The great scablands debate
A quahog is a quahog
Early life : An early start
Crazy old Randolph Kirkpatrick
Bathybius and eozoon
Might we fit inside a sponge’s cell
They were despised and rejected : Were dinosaurs dumb?
The telltale wishbone
Nature’s odd couples
Sticking up for marsupials
Size and time : Our allotted lifetimes
Natural attraction: bacteria, the birds and the bees
Time’s vastness
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