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I have landed : the end of a beginning in natural history / Stephen Jay Gould.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Jonathan Cape, 2002Description: xi, 418 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0224062999
  • 9780224062992
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 578 21
Contents:
I. Pausing in Continuity. 1. I Have Landed -- II. Disciplinary Connections: Scientific Slouching Across a Misconceived Divide. 2. No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts: The Lepidoptery of Vladimir Nabokov. 3. Jim Bowie's Letter and Bill Buckner's Legs. 4. The True Embodiment of Everything That's Excellent. 5. Art Meets Science in The Heart of the Andes: Church Paints, Humboldt Dies, Darwin Writes, and Nature Blinks in the Fateful Year of 1859 -- III. Darwinian Prequels and Fallout. 6. The Darwinian Gentleman at Marx's Funeral: Resolving Evolution's Oddest Coupling. 7. The Pre-Adamite in a Nutshell. 8. Freud's Evolutionary Fantasy -- IV. Essays in the Paleontology of Ideas. 9. The Jew and the Jewstone. 10. When Fossils Were Young. 11. Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis -- V. Casting the Die: Six Evolutionary Epitomes. 12. Darwin and the Munchkins of Kansas. 13. Darwin's More Stately Mansion. 14. A Darwin for All Reasons. 15. When Less Is Truly More. 16. Darwin's Cultural Degree. 17. The Without and Within of Smart Mice -- VI. The Meaning and Drawing of Evolution. 18. What Does the Dreaded "E" Word Mean Anyway? 19. The First Day of the Rest of Our Life. 20. The Narthex of San Marco and the Pangenetic Paradigm. 21. Linnaeus's Luck? 22. Abscheulich! (Atrocious). 23. Tales of a Feathered Tail -- VII. Natural Worth. 24. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Concept of Native Plants. 25. Age-Old Fallacies of Thinking and Stinking. 26. The Geometer of Race. 27. The Great Physiologist of Heidelberg -- VIII. Triumph and Tragedy on the Exact Centennial of I Have Landed, September 11, 2001. 28. The Good People of Halifax. 29. Apple Brown Betty. 30. The Woolworth Building. 31. September 11, '01.
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I. Pausing in Continuity. 1. I Have Landed -- II. Disciplinary Connections: Scientific Slouching Across a Misconceived Divide. 2. No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts: The Lepidoptery of Vladimir Nabokov. 3. Jim Bowie's Letter and Bill Buckner's Legs. 4. The True Embodiment of Everything That's Excellent. 5. Art Meets Science in The Heart of the Andes: Church Paints, Humboldt Dies, Darwin Writes, and Nature Blinks in the Fateful Year of 1859 -- III. Darwinian Prequels and Fallout. 6. The Darwinian Gentleman at Marx's Funeral: Resolving Evolution's Oddest Coupling. 7. The Pre-Adamite in a Nutshell. 8. Freud's Evolutionary Fantasy -- IV. Essays in the Paleontology of Ideas. 9. The Jew and the Jewstone. 10. When Fossils Were Young. 11. Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis -- V. Casting the Die: Six Evolutionary Epitomes. 12. Darwin and the Munchkins of Kansas. 13. Darwin's More Stately Mansion. 14. A Darwin for All Reasons. 15. When Less Is Truly More. 16. Darwin's Cultural Degree. 17. The Without and Within of Smart Mice -- VI. The Meaning and Drawing of Evolution. 18. What Does the Dreaded "E" Word Mean Anyway? 19. The First Day of the Rest of Our Life. 20. The Narthex of San Marco and the Pangenetic Paradigm. 21. Linnaeus's Luck? 22. Abscheulich! (Atrocious). 23. Tales of a Feathered Tail -- VII. Natural Worth. 24. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Concept of Native Plants. 25. Age-Old Fallacies of Thinking and Stinking. 26. The Geometer of Race. 27. The Great Physiologist of Heidelberg -- VIII. Triumph and Tragedy on the Exact Centennial of I Have Landed, September 11, 2001. 28. The Good People of Halifax. 29. Apple Brown Betty. 30. The Woolworth Building. 31. September 11, '01.

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