Lying Stones of Marrakech Penultimate Reflections in Natural History

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Jay Gould was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. A MacArthur Prize Fellow! he received innumerable honors and awards and wrote many books! including Ontogeny and Phylogeny and Time's Arrow! Time's Cycle (both from Harvard). Klappentext A popular essayist offers his perspective on natural history and the people who have tried to decipher it in this collection of essays on topics from fake fossils to vanishing planets. Photos. Zusammenfassung Gould covers topics as diverse as episodes in the birth of paleontology to lessons from Britain's four greatest Victorian naturalists. This collection presents the richness and fascination of the various lives that have fueled the enterprise of science and opened our eyes to a world of unexpected wonders.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stephen Jay Gould
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 20.09.2011
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali
• EAN: 9780674061675
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06167-5
• Numero di pagine: 384