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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998) is the eighth volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "The View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27 years.
Jun 14, 2021 · Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history).
I can easily understand why, for most naturalists, the highest form of beauty, inspiration, and moral value might be imputed to increasingly rare patches of true wilderness—that is, to parcels of nature devoid of any human presence, either in current person or by previous incursion.
Nov 29, 2011 · Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms. Essays on Natural History. Stephen Jay Gould. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674063365. Cite this. Share this. Overview. Contents. About this book. With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.
circulatory forces, Leonardo reasoned, our world would be comprised of four concentric spheres about this center; the densest (earth) would be at the bottom, and the lightest (fire) would be at the periphery. Leonardo, an early mechanist, believed that some sort of pump must be in play to create the world we know, including mountains with ...
Sep 29, 1998 · Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history).
Jan 1, 2001 · Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history).
