An edition of The Flamingo's Smile (1985)

The flamingo's smile

reflections in natural history

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An edition of The Flamingo's Smile (1985)

The flamingo's smile

reflections in natural history

1st ed.
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"THE FLAMINGO'S SMILE is about history," writes the author in this volume of essays, "...and about what it means to say that life is the product of a contingent past, not the inevitable and predictable result of simple, timeless laws of nature. Quirkiness and meaning are my two not-so-contradictory themes."

Flamingos that feed upside down; flowers and snails that change from male to female; the probability that an errant asteroid sounded the death knell of the dinosaurs and ushered in the evolution of mankind...these are only a few of the things that open our eyes to the endless delights of Gould's subject...evolutionary theory.

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476

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Cover of: The Flamingo's Smile
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
January 1987, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
Cover of: The Flamingo's Smile
The Flamingo's Smile
August 1, 1987, Books on Tape, Inc.
Audio Cassette in English
Cover of: The flamingo's smile.
The flamingo's smile.
1986, Penguin
in English
Cover of: The flamingo's smile
The flamingo's smile: reflections in natural history
1985, Norton
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The Flamingo's Smile
The Flamingo's Smile
January 1985, Books on Tape
Audio Cassette in English
Cover of: The flamingo's smile
The flamingo's smile: reflections in natural history
1985, Norton, W W Norton & Co Inc
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Flamingo's Smile
Flamingo's Smile
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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 451-458.
Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
508
Library of Congress
QH81 .G673 1985, QH81.G673 1985

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Pagination
476 p. :
Number of pages
476

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Open Library
OL3024589M
Internet Archive
flamingossmilere00goul
ISBN 10
0393022285
LCCN
85004916
OCLC/WorldCat
11814391
Library Thing
68952
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
987816

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