The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History - Softcover

Gould, Stephen Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393300234 ISBN 13: 9780393300239

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1982

Synopsis

Review It is a wonder what Mr. Gould can do with the most unlikely phenomena: a tiny organism's use of the earth's magnetic field as a guide to food and comfort, for instance, or the panda's thumb-which isn't one. . . . Science writing at its best. (The New Yorker) Stephen Jay Gould is a serious and gifted interpreter of biological theory, of the history of ideas and of the cultural context of scientific discovery. . . . The Panda's Thumb is fresh and mind-stretching. Above all, it is exultant. So should its readers be. (H. Jack Geiger - New York Times Book Review)

About this title

About the Author

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He published over twenty books, received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship.

Review

“It is a wonder what Mr. Gould can do with the most unlikely phenomena: a tiny organism's use of the earth's magnetic field as a guide to food and comfort, for instance, or the panda's thumb—which isn't one. . . . Science writing at its best.” — The New Yorker

“Stephen Jay Gould is a serious and gifted interpreter of biological theory, of the history of ideas and of the cultural context of scientific discovery. . . . is fresh and mind-stretching. Above all, it is exultant. So should its readers be.” — H. Jack Geiger (New York Times Book Review)

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393300234
• ISBN 13: 9780393300239
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344