Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

"Lively and fascinating. . . . [Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature."―Tracy Kidder Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species , Darwinian theory is in a …

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