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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

Author Stephen Gould

Format Hardcover

Publisher Harmony

Category Nature

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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). In this collection, Gould consciously and unconventionally formulates a humanistic natural history, a consideration of how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself. With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature's and humanity's diversity and order. In affecting short biographies, he depicts how scholars grapple with problems of science and philosophy as he illuminates the interaction of the outer world with the unique human ability to struggle to understand the whys and where-fores of existence.

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Stephen Gould

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Release Date: 1998-09-29
Publisher: Harmony
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780609601419

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