Eight Little Piggies by Gould, Stephen Jay -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD IN NORTON Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents A Reflective Prologue 1 | THE SCALE OF EXTINCTION

1 Unenchanted Evening 2 The Golden Rule: A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis 3 Losing a Limpet

2 | ODD BITS OF VERTEBRATE ANATOMY

4 Eight Little Piggies 5 Bent Out of Shape 6 An Earful of Jaw 7 Full of Hot Air

3 | VOX POPULI

Evolving Visions

8 Men of the Thirty-Third Division: An Essay on Integrity 9 Darwin and Paley Meet the Invisible Hand 10 More Light on Leaves

Time in Newton’s Century

11 On Rereading Edmund Halley 12 Fall in the House of Ussher

4 | MUSINGS

Clouds of Memory

13 Muller Bros. Moving & Storage 14 Shoemaker and Morning Star

Authenticity

15 In Touch with Walcott 16 Counters and Cable Cars

5 | HUMAN NATURE

17 Mozart and Modularity 18 The Moral State of Tahiti—and of Darwin 19 Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness 20 The Declining Empire of Apes

6 | GRAND PATTERNS OF EVOLUTION

Two Steps towards a General Theory of Life’s Complexity

21 The Wheel of Fortune and the Wedge of Progress 22 Tires to Sandals

New Discoveries in the Earliest History of Multicellular Life

23 Defending the Heretical and the Superfluous 24 The Reversal of Hallucigenia

7 | REVISING AND EXTENDING DARWIN

25 What the Immaculate Pigeon Teaches the Burdened Mind 26 The Great Seal Principle 27 A Dog’s Life in Galton’s Polyhedron 28 Betting on Chance—and No Fair Peeking

8 | REVERSALS—FRAGMENTS OF A BOOK NOT WRITTEN

29 Shields of Expectation—and Actuality 30 A Tale of Three Pictures 31 A Foot Soldier for Evolution

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