| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780520243767 | | Publisher: University of California Press | | Publish Date: 7/6/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 209927271 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 12H x 9L x 1.75T |
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| | | | ""Darwin''s Universe" is the single best volume ever published that covers all matters Darwinian from A to Z. I have never so enjoyed a scientific book, plucking out gems of elegant narrative richly supported by photographs and paintings from the history of evolutionary thought. A magnificent product of scholarship that is also a work of art."--Michael Shermer, author of In "Darwin''s Shadow" and "Why Darwin Matters"
"This is no staid, humorless encyclopedia of natural history and evolution; rather, it is a joyous romp through a world inhabited by as eccentric and absorbing a cast of characters as was ever brought together between endpapers."--From the preface by Ian Tattersall, author of "The Monkey in the Mirror "and "The Fossil Trail"
| Author BioStephen Jay Gould received his Ph.D. in paleontology from Columbia University and was later appointed Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University. He served on the advisory boards of the Children's Television Workshop and NOVA, and edited the professional journal Evolution. His popular column in Natural History magazine illustrated the depth and breadth of his scientific knowledge, as well as his witty and graceful writing style. An ardent enemy of pseudoscience, Gould was well known as an articulate spokesperson for evolutionary science. He died at the age of 60 of abdominal mesothelioma, a rare and deadly form of cancer.
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