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

By: Publication details: New York : Harmony Books, c2002.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 418 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0609601431 (hc)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 578 21
LOC classification:
  • QH45.5 .G735 2002
Contents:
Pt. I. Pausing in Continuity: Ch. 1. I Have Landed. Pt II. Disciplinary Connections: Scientific Slouching Across a Misconceived Divide: -- Ch. 2. No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts: The Lepidoptery of Vladimir Nabokov -- Ch. 3. Jim Bowie's Letter and Bill Buckner's Legs -- Ch. 4. The True Embodiment of Everything That's Excellent -- Ch. 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. Pt. III. Darwinian Prequels and Fallout: Ch. 6. The Darwinian Gentleman at Marx's Funeral: Resolving Evolution's Oddest Coupling -- Ch. 7. The Pre-Adamite in a Nutshell -- Ch. 8. Freud's Evolutionary Fantasy. Pt. IV. Essays in the Paleontology of Ideas: Ch. 9. The Jew and the Jewstone -- Ch. 10. When Fossils Were Young -- Ch. 11. Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis.
Pt. V. Casting the Die: Six Evolutionary Epitomes: DEFENDING EVOLUTION: Ch. 12. Darwin and the Munchkins of Kansas -- Ch. 13. Darwin's More Stately Mansion -- Ch. 14. A Darwin for All Reasons; EVOLUTION AND HUMAN NATURE: Ch. 15. When Less Is Truly More -- Ch. 16. Darwin's Cultural Degree -- Ch. 17. The Without and Within of Smart Mice. Pt. VI. The Meaning and Drawing of Evolution: DEFINING AND BEGINNING: Ch. 18. What Does the Dreaded "E" Word Mean Anyway? -- Ch. 19. The First Day of the Rest of Our Life -- Ch. 20. The Narthex of San Marco and the Pangenetic Paradigm; PARSING AND PROCEEDING: Ch. 21. Linnaeus's Luck? -- Ch. 22. Abscheulich! (Atrocious) -- Ch. 23. Tales of a Feathered Tail. Pt. VII. Natural Worth: Ch. 24. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Concept of Native Plants -- Ch. 25. Age-Old Fallacies of Thinking and Stinking -- Ch. 26. The Geometer of Race -- Ch. 27. The Great Physiologist of Heidelberg. Pt. VIII. Triumph and Tragedy on the Exact Centennial of I Have Landed, September 11, 2001: Introductory Statement -- Ch. 28. The Good People of Halifax -- Ch. 29. Apple Brown Betty -- Ch. 30. The Woolworth Building -- Ch. 31. September 11,'01.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks QH45.5 .G735 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000682970

Includes bibliographical references.

Pt. I. Pausing in Continuity: Ch. 1. I Have Landed. Pt II. Disciplinary Connections: Scientific Slouching Across a Misconceived Divide: -- Ch. 2. No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts: The Lepidoptery of Vladimir Nabokov -- Ch. 3. Jim Bowie's Letter and Bill Buckner's Legs -- Ch. 4. The True Embodiment of Everything That's Excellent -- Ch. 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. Pt. III. Darwinian Prequels and Fallout: Ch. 6. The Darwinian Gentleman at Marx's Funeral: Resolving Evolution's Oddest Coupling -- Ch. 7. The Pre-Adamite in a Nutshell -- Ch. 8. Freud's Evolutionary Fantasy. Pt. IV. Essays in the Paleontology of Ideas: Ch. 9. The Jew and the Jewstone -- Ch. 10. When Fossils Were Young -- Ch. 11. Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis.

Pt. V. Casting the Die: Six Evolutionary Epitomes: DEFENDING EVOLUTION: Ch. 12. Darwin and the Munchkins of Kansas -- Ch. 13. Darwin's More Stately Mansion -- Ch. 14. A Darwin for All Reasons; EVOLUTION AND HUMAN NATURE: Ch. 15. When Less Is Truly More -- Ch. 16. Darwin's Cultural Degree -- Ch. 17. The Without and Within of Smart Mice. Pt. VI. The Meaning and Drawing of Evolution: DEFINING AND BEGINNING: Ch. 18. What Does the Dreaded "E" Word Mean Anyway? -- Ch. 19. The First Day of the Rest of Our Life -- Ch. 20. The Narthex of San Marco and the Pangenetic Paradigm; PARSING AND PROCEEDING: Ch. 21. Linnaeus's Luck? -- Ch. 22. Abscheulich! (Atrocious) -- Ch. 23. Tales of a Feathered Tail. Pt. VII. Natural Worth: Ch. 24. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Concept of Native Plants -- Ch. 25. Age-Old Fallacies of Thinking and Stinking -- Ch. 26. The Geometer of Race -- Ch. 27. The Great Physiologist of Heidelberg. Pt. VIII. Triumph and Tragedy on the Exact Centennial of I Have Landed, September 11, 2001: Introductory Statement -- Ch. 28. The Good People of Halifax -- Ch. 29. Apple Brown Betty -- Ch. 30. The Woolworth Building -- Ch. 31. September 11,'01.

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