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Eight Little Piggies
Stephen Jay Gould
其他書名
Reflections in Natural History
出版Jonathan Cape, 1993
主題Science / Life Sciences / EvolutionScience / Natural History
ISBN02240371619780224037167
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gumf6YSmG68C&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This collection of essays range from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over palaeontology to the origins of language. The title is a pun and as always with Gould, the joke has a point that illustrates the largest pattern of life's history. for millennia, the animals that populated the earth had four toes on each foot, or six. If evolution had taken a tiny shift - if man's ancestors had inherited a couple of genes in a different form - our canonical number, based on man's fingers and toes, might be eight instead of ten. Stephen Jay Gould has also written Wonderful Life, Bully for Brontosaurus and Finders Keepers.