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Amazon.com Review: In this slender volume, Stephen Jay Gould addresses three questions about the millennium with his typical combination of erudition, warmth, and whimsy: As a calendrical event, what is the concept of a millennium and how has its meaning shifted over time? How did the projection of Christ's 1,000-year reign become a secular measure? And when exactly will the millennium begin--January 1, 2000, or January 2, 2001? "Our urge to know is so great, but our common errors cut so deep...read more
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9780609605417, titled "Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalists Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown" | Rev sub edition (Harmony Books, September 1, 1999), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The noted naturalist sheds new light on humankind's fascination with the approaching millennium, offering a collection of scientific and historical essays on the millennium and its significance
9780609600764, titled "Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown" | Random House Inc, October 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The noted naturalist sheds new light on humankind's fascination with the approaching millennium, offering a collection of scientific and historical essays on the millennium and its significance

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9780674061644, titled "Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown" | Revised edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 2011), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

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9780609606100, titled "Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown" | Crown Pub, October 11, 1999, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9780609601426, titled "The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History" | 1st edition (Harmony Books, March 1, 2000), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Essays cover a wide range of topics, including the nature of fossils, evolution, and biodiversity

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9780674061675, titled "The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History" | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 2011), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Gould covers topics as diverse as episodes in the birth of paleontology to lessons from Britain’s four greatest Victorian naturalists.
9780609807552, titled "The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History" | Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, April 1, 2001), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Essays cover a wide range of topics, including the nature of fossils, evolution, and biodiversity.

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9780787125172 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, March 1, 2000), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Amazon.
9780787125189 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, March 1, 2000), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In his ninth collection of essays, bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould once again offers his unmistakable perspective on natural history and the people who have tried to make sense of it.

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Product Description: Gould’s final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he ever published...read more
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9780609601433 | 1 edition (Harmony Books, May 1, 2002), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Essays from 'Natural History' magazine include writings on Charles Darwin, the methods of science versus those of the humanistic disciplines, Nabokov's butterfly research, and the author's grandfather's arrival in America.

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9780674061620 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 2011), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Gould’s final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001.
9781400048045 | 1 reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Essays from 'Natural History' magazine include writings on Charles Darwin, the methods of science versus those of the humanistic disciplines, Nabokov's butterfly research, and the author's grandfather's arrival in America.

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Product Description: With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.
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9780674061637 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 2011), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.

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Product Description: Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this “full house” of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing...read more
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9780517703946 | 1st edition (Harmony Books, September 1, 1996), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Argues against popular conceptions about the nature of progress and evolution, and shows how variety is the essence of life

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9780674061613 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 2011), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this “full house” of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing.
9780609801406 | Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, October 1, 1997), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Argues against popular conceptions about the nature of progress and evolution, and shows how variety is the essence of life

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9780307420770 | Crown Pub, December 18, 2007, cover price $15.95

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9781574533682 | Audio Literature, July 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Argues against popular conceptions about the nature of progress and evolution, and shows how variety is the essence of life.
9780787111250 | Dove Entertainment Inc, August 1, 1996, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Argues against popular conceptions about the nature of progress and evolution, and shows how variety is the essence of life.

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Product Description: From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution.
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9780517703939 | 1 edition (Harmony Books, January 1, 1996), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss topics ranging from Charles Darwin to Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of 'Jurassic Park' to the ethical challenges of science

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9780674061606 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 2011), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution.
9780517888247 | Reprint edition (Crown Pub, January 1, 1997), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss topics ranging from Charles Darwin to Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of 'Jurassic Park' to the ethical challenges of science

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9781574533422 | Audio Literature, February 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss topics ranging from Charles Darwin to Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of 'Jurassic Park' to the ethical challenges of science.
9780787107437 | Dove Entertainment Inc, January 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss topics ranging from Charles Darwin to Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of 'Jurassic Park' to the ethical challenges of science.
9780787109158 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, January 1, 1996), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss topics ranging from Charles Darwin to Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of 'Jurassic Park' to the ethical challenges of science.

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9781439505700 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Award-winning, bestselling author, evolutionary biologist, and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould takes the art of the essay to an unprecedented height of excellence in this vibrant new collection of writings on science and natural history.

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Product Description: In his final book, Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against each other for far too long.
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9780609601402 | 1 edition (Harmony Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Draws on the philosophy of seventh century B.

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9780674061668 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 2011), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In his final book, Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against each other for far too long.
9781400051533 | Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, March 1, 2004), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Draws on the philosophy of seventh century B.

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Product Description: When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.Yet the idea of of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined...read more
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9781452604107 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, September 5, 2011), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.

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Product Description: When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.Yet the idea of of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined...read more
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9781452654102 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, September 5, 2011), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.

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Product Description: This alphabetically arranged reference, an immensely entertaining browser's delight, offers a dazzling overview of the life and thought of Charles Darwin and his incredibly wide sphere of influence. Authoritative and abundantly illustrated, it illuminates the ways in which ideas of evolutionary biology have leapt the boundaries of science to influence philosophy, law, religion, literature, cinema, art, and popular culture...read more
By Stephen Jay Gould (introduced by), Richard Milner and Ian Tattersall (foreword by)
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9780520243767 | Univ of California Pr, July 6, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This alphabetically arranged reference, an immensely entertaining browser's delight, offers a dazzling overview of the life and thought of Charles Darwin and his incredibly wide sphere of influence.

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Product Description: For the first time on CD! Vintage Stephen King at a great low price! Stephen King's unparalleled imagination is in full force in this collection of four unabridged short stories originally found in the classic, Nightmares & Dreamscapes...read more
By Stephen Jay Gould (narrator), Stephen King, Tabitha King (narrator) and Robert Parker (narrator)
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9780743598217 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, June 30, 2009), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: For the first time on CD!

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Product Description: "His fourth volume of imaginative, witty essays...equals Gould's prize-winning The Panda's Thumb and The Mismeasure of Man."--Publisher's Weekly. Photographs.
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9780393022285 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1985), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Evolutionary theory in the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flowers and snails that change from male to female and sometimes back again, and the extinction from baseball of the .

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9780393303759 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Evolutionary theory in the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flowers and snails that change from male to female and sometimes back again, and the extinction from baseball of the .

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9781439510247 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: "His fourth volume of imaginative, witty essays.

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Amazon.com Review: One of this century's most thoughtful and prolific naturalists, Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould looks at the human twists on science in his eighth series of essays taken from Natural History magazine. As only he can, Gould finds questions where others have never looked, and answers where others have been blinded--by their professional rivalries, by their unacknowledged privilege in society, by the dominant world-view at their particular juncture in history...read more
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9780609601419 | 1 edition (Harmony Books, October 1, 1998), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The latest collection of the popular paleontologist's essays from 'Natural History' magazine explores the puzzles and paradoxes both great and small inherent in the diversity of nature and humanity and how scientists grapple with them

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9780609804759 | Three Rivers Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The latest collection of the popular paleontologist's essays from 'Natural History' magazine explores the puzzles and paradoxes both great and small inherent in the diversity of nature and humanity and how scientists grapple with them

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9780787117924 | Abridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, October 1, 1998), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The latest collection of the popular paleontologist's essays from 'Natural History' magazine explores the puzzles and paradoxes both great and small inherent in the diversity of nature and humanity and how scientists grapple with them.
9780787117917 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, October 1, 1998), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The latest collection of the popular paleontologist's essays from 'Natural History' magazine explores the puzzles and paradoxes both great and small inherent in the diversity of nature and humanity and how scientists grapple with them.

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9781439503843 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

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In a series of essays giving careful consideration to the theory of evolution, Gould examines some of the more intriguing mysteries of the topic, studying the Piltdown Man hoax, the deceleration of earth's rotation, and other phenomena
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9780393308198 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1992), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In a series of essays giving careful consideration to the theory of evolution, Gould examines some of the more intriguing mysteries of the topic, studying the Piltdown Man hoax, the deceleration of earth's rotation, and other phenomena

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9781439505205 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $25.95

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A collection of thirty-five essays--representing the best of the column 'This View of Life' from 'Natural History' magazine--focuses on the themes of evolution and of the innumerable oddities of nature
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9780393029611 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A collection of thirty-five essays--representing the best of the column 'This View of Life' from 'Natural History' magazine--focuses on the themes of evolution and of the innumerable oddities of nature

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9780393308570 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1992), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of thirty-five essays--representing the best of the column 'This View of Life' from 'Natural History' magazine--focuses on the themes of evolution and of the innumerable oddities of nature

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9781439508985 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $26.95

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9788420627366 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $39.95

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Originally published as the central chapter in the late author's critically acclaimed study, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, a critical challenge to a core tenet of Darwin's theory of evolution explores the nature of biological change and its influence on evolutionary patterns and processes. Original.
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9780674024441 | Belknap Pr, May 31, 2007, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Originally published as the central chapter in the late author's critically acclaimed study, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, a critical challenge to a core tenet of Darwin's theory of evolution explores the nature of biological change and its influence on evolutionary patterns and processes.

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9788484327141 | Critica, June 30, 2006, cover price $16.95

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9788484326199 | Critica, March 8, 2005, cover price $21.95

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Amazon.com Review: The late Stephen Jay Gould was a man of strong opinions--and not just about evolutionary theory and paleontology, the subjects of fine books of his such as Ever Since Darwin and Wonderful Life. Just get him going on baseball, as readers of his long-running monthly column in Natural History magazine will remember, and sparks would fly...read more
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9780224050425 | New edition (Vintage Uk, January 15, 2004), cover price $32.30 | About this edition: Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about baseball, his great passion.
9780393057553 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Essays on baseball share the author's love of the national pastime as he reflects on the joys of opening day, childhood streetball, Mickey Mantle, and the contradictions of being a lifelong Yankees fan with Red Sox season tickets.

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9780393325577 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on baseball by the late evolutionary biologist and author of Ever Since Darwin shares his love of the national pastime as he reflects on the joys of opening day, childhood streetball, Mickey Mantle, the demise of the .

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9781435290471 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Product Description: At the intersection of science and art, documentary and fantasy, the beautiful and the grotesque lies the work of Alexis Rockman, whose meticulously rendered paintings fascinate, amuse, and alarm -- often simultaneously -- as they explore the relationship between humanity and nature...read more
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9781580931182 | Monacelli Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: At the intersection of science and art, documentary and fantasy, the beautiful and the grotesque lies the work of Alexis Rockman, whose meticulously rendered paintings fascinate, amuse, and alarm -- often simultaneously -- as they explore the relationship between humanity and nature.

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Presents a collection of essays by prominent scientists, scholars, and educators on ways to transform science education in the United States and promote a more literate society. (view table of contents)
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9781591020202 | Prometheus Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $29.98 | About this edition: Presents a collection of essays by prominent scientists, scholars, and educators on ways to transform science education in the United States and promote a more literate society.

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Edited by the award-winning late author of The Mismeasure of Man a new collection of the finest nonfiction essays published over the past year incorporates the work of distinguished masters of the essay genre on topics ranging from pathology to the boxing arena to growing up. Simultaneous. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
By Robert Atwan (editor) and Stephen Jay Gould (editor)
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9780618213887, titled "The Best American Essays 2002" | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 2002, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Edited by the award-winning late author of The Mismeasure of Man a new collection of the finest nonfiction essays published over the past year incorporates the work of distinguished masters of the essay genre on topics ranging from pathology to the boxing arena to growing up.

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9780618049325 | Mariner Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals

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The renowned media-savvy scientist and author of Ontogeny and Phylogeny takes on evolutionary theory in this substantial new treatment of a controversial subject and critiques of Darwinian theory. (view table of contents)
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9780674006133 | Belknap Pr, March 21, 2002, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: Presents a critique of classical Darwinism, covering its core elements, history, and origins, and offers a new structure of evolutionary thought.

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Seeks to resolve the gap between science and religion in a volume that explains how creation stories and evolutional theory can coexist, profiling historical leaders while explaining how each science defines the natural and moral world respectively. printing. (view table of contents)
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9780345430090 | 1 edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1999), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The nation's leading exponent of Darwinian evolution disentangles the perennial tug-of-war between science and religion, expounding a simple principle allowing them to coexist productively

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9780345450401 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, February 1, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Seeks to resolve the gap between science and religion in a volume that explains how creation stories and evolutional theory can coexist, profiling historical leaders while explaining how each science defines the natural and moral world respectively.

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9780787118570 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, March 1, 1999), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The nation's leading exponent of Darwinian evolution disentangles the perennial tug-of-war between science and religion, expounding a simple principle allowing them to coexist productively.

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