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Stephen Jay Gould reexamines Darwin's theory in light of the findings of modern evolutionary biology and shows the ways in which biological theories have been concocted to justify social ills
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9780393064254 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1977, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Stephen Jay Gould reexamines Darwin's theory in light of the findings of modern evolutionary biology and shows the ways in which biological theories have been concocted to justify social ills

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9780393308181 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1992), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Stephen Jay Gould reexamines Darwin's theory in light of the findings of modern evolutionary biology and shows the ways in which biological theories have been concocted to justify social ills

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Exposes the fatal flaws in the ranking of people according to their supposed gifts and limits by discussing the development of the theory of limits and by reanalyzing the data on which it is based (view table of contents)
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9780393039726 | Rev sub edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1996), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Exposes the fatal flaws in the ranking of people according to their supposed gifts and limits by discussing the development of the theory of limits and by reanalyzing the data on which it is based
9780393014891 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1981, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Exposes the fatal flaws in the ranking of people according to their supposed gifts and limits by discussing the development of the theory of limits and by reanalyzing the data on which it is based

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9780393314250, titled "Mismeasure of Man" | Rev exp edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1996), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Exposes the fatal flaws in the ranking of people according to their supposed gifts and limits by discussing the development of the theory of limits and by reanalyzing the data on which it is based
9780393310672 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1993), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Exposes the fatal flaws in the ranking of people according to their supposed gifts and limits by discussing the development of the theory of limits and by reanalyzing the data on which it is based

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A collection of essays answers questions about key scientific concepts, focusing, in particular, on Darwin's theory of evolution, natural selection, and its impact on biology, natural history, and modern science
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9780393017168 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1983), cover price $15.50 | About this edition: A collection of essays answers questions about key scientific concepts, focusing, in particular, on Darwin's theory of evolution, natural selection, and its impact on biology, natural history, and modern science

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Essays examine the accomplishments of Charles Darwin, his theory of evolution, and his impact on society and science
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9780062506511 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, November 1, 1983), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Essays examine the accomplishments of Charles Darwin, his theory of evolution, and his impact on society and science

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Product Description: "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Gould documents the history of the idea of recapitulation from its first appearance among the pre-Socratics to its fall in the early twentieth century...read more
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9780674639416 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, January 17, 1985), cover price $35.50 | About this edition: "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)?

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Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history (view table of contents)
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9780674891982 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1987, cover price $24.45 | About this edition: Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history

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9780674891999, titled "Time's Arrow/Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time" | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1988), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history

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Reviews books about pandas, scientific research, evolution, culture, geology, the origin of the mind, testing bias, genetics, and scientific frauds (view table of contents)
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9780393024920 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1987, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Reviews books about pandas, scientific research, evolution, culture, geology, the origin of the mind, testing bias, genetics, and scientific frauds

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9780393305371, titled "Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas" | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1988, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Reviews books about pandas, scientific research, evolution, culture, geology, the origin of the mind, testing bias, genetics, and scientific frauds

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A study of the Burgess Shale, a sea bed 530 million years old, and attempts to tackle what the findings are and what it means
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9780393027051 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1989, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: A study of the Burgess Shale, a sea bed 530 million years old, and attempts to tackle what the findings are and what it means
9780735100312 | Replica Books, September 1, 1989, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Discusses the fossils of the Burgess Shale in Yoho National Park, British Columbia

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9780393307009 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A study of the Burgess Shale, a sea bed 530 million years old, and attempts to tackle what the findings are and what it means

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Traces the life and career of the nineteenth-century American landscape artist, shows Church's most important paintings, and discusses his influences and technique
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9780874744583 | Natl Gallery of Art, November 1, 1989, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Traces the life and career of the nineteenth-century American landscape artist, shows Church's most important paintings, and discusses his influences and technique

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Product Description: Three noted academics describe a new exhibit for the National Museum of American Art that uses the landscape photography of the eighties to show how visual artists have attempted to grapple with environmental issues. Simultaneous.
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9780937311042 | Smithsonian Inst Natl Museum of, February 1, 1992, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Three noted academics describe a new exhibit for the National Museum of American Art that uses the landscape photography of the eighties to show how visual artists have attempted to grapple with environmental issues.

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Product Description: Most of us collect things, but seldom have entire collections been preserved. A few that did survive have fallen, figuratively, into the clutches of two of America's most innovative minds: photographer Rosamond Wolff Purcell and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould...read more
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9780393030549 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1992, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A noted paleontologist provides the text for this photographic study of eight different collections--from a collection of human artifacts belonging to Peter the Great to Agassy's fish collection--exploring what collections say about collectors.

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9780393310870 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1994), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Most of us collect things, but seldom have entire collections been preserved.

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Three noted academics describe a new exhibit for the National Museum of American Art that uses the landscape photography of the eighties to show how visual artists have attempted to grapple with environmental issues.
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9780826313638 | Smithsonian Inst Natl Museum of, April 1, 1992, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Three noted academics describe a new exhibit for the National Museum of American Art that uses the landscape photography of the eighties to show how visual artists have attempted to grapple with environmental issues.

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9780826313645 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Three noted academics describe a new exhibit for the National Museum of American Art that uses the landscape photography of the eighties to show how visual artists have attempted to grapple with environmental issues.

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In the sixth volume of essays from Natural History magazine, the nation's foremost science writer discusses environmental spoliation and the massive extinction of the earth's species. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.
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9780393034165 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1993, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The author offers his insights on the disappearance of the Tahitian snail, the ecological crisis, the bent tail of an ichthyosaur, the evolution of the hearing bones, and more

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9780393311396 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1994), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In the sixth volume of essays from Natural History magazine, the nation's foremost science writer discusses environmental spoliation and the massive extinction of the earth's species.

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A collection of essays answers questions about key scientific concepts, focusing, in particular, on Darwin's theory of evolution, natural selection, and its impact on biology, natural history, and modern science
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9780393311037 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1994), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays answers questions about key scientific concepts, focusing, in particular, on Darwin's theory of evolution, natural selection, and its impact on biology, natural history, and modern science

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Product Description: An illustrated natural history of the earth and its denizens combines paintings, drawings, and computer-generated images with a sweeping yet accessible chronicle of the world's variegated organisms and species.
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9780393967241 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1994, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: An illustrated natural history of the earth and its denizens combines paintings, drawings, and computer-generated images with a sweeping yet accessible chronicle of the world's variegated organisms and species.

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More than two hundred full-color, high-quality maps, diagrams, and reconstructions, along with an up-to-date text, trace the geology of the earth from the Big Bang to the evolution of humans. Natural Science Main.
By Stephen Jay Gould (editor), Roger Osborne (editor) and D. H. Tarling (editor)
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9780805045529 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1996, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: More than two hundred maps, diagrams, and reconstructions assist in tracing the geology of the Earth from the Big Bang to the evolution of humans

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Amazon.com Review: The human mind has a trusty device for simplifying a complex world: reduce to averages and identify trends. Although valuable, the risk is that we ignore variations and end up with a skewed view of reality. In evolutionary terms, the result is a view in which humans are the inevitable pinnacle of evolutionary progress, instead of, as Stephen Jay Gould patiently argues, "a cosmic accident that would never arise again if the tree of life could be replanted...read more
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9780517708491 | Signed edition (Harmony Books, September 1, 1996), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Explores the unanswered questions of science, such as 'Are we alone in the universe?' and 'Can we unravel our genetic code?' (view table of contents)
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9780385480147, titled "Why Aren't Black Holes Black?: The Unanswered Questions at the Frontiers of Science" | Anchor Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Explores the unanswered questions of science, such as 'Are we alone in the universe?

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By Stephen Jay Gould and Rosamond Purcell (photographer)
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9780761108245 | Wal edition (Workman Pub Co, August 1, 1997), cover price $9.95

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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.
By Stephen Jay Gould and Zimbalist (narrator)
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9780787116453 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, September 1, 1997), cover price $25.00 | 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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9780316035286 | Little Brown & Co, November 1, 1997, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: Stephen Jay Gould's essays are well known for their wit and explanatory power. Throughout the years, they have enlightened and entertained readers of Natural History magazine and other publications. The essays presented in this audio programme offer Gould's illuminating perspectives on several different topics dealing with evolution and extinction, including impact theory, punctuated equilibrium, natural selection and evolutionary progress...read more
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9781879557482 | Audio Scholar, August 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Stephen Jay Gould's essays are well known for their wit and explanatory power.

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9780140869248 | Abridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, November 1, 1998), cover price $3.00

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Full-color reproductions by contemporary visionary artists complement a collection of provocative essays--by Stephen Jay Gould, the Dalai Lama, Roger Manley, Adam Parfrey, and others--on the inspired imagery reflecting the millennial obsession of visionary and outsider art. (view table of contents)
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9780966427264 | Dilettante Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Full-color reproductions by contemporary visionary artists complement a collection of provocative essays--by Stephen Jay Gould, the Dalai Lama, Roger Manley, Adam Parfrey, and others--on the inspired imagery reflecting the millennial obsession of visionary and outsider art.

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Product Description: “An exciting, monumental, first-rate book devoted to a universal phenomenon whose time has come at last. Perhaps this is the art of the twenty-first century.”—Michael Bonesteel, The Outsider “A wonderful book…”—David Bowie “(A) fascinating, timely book...read more
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9780966427271 | Dilettante Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: “An exciting, monumental, first-rate book devoted to a universal phenomenon whose time has come at last.

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