Eight Little Piggies, Stephen Jay Gould
Eight Little Piggies, Stephen Jay Gould
List: $24.99 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.49

Eight Little Piggies
Reflections in Natural History

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

Narrator: Jonathan Sleep

Unabridged: 15 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/14/2023

Synopsis

Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould does the wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of collected essays—his sixth since Ever Since Darwin—Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives and to our ancestral generations. Along with way, he opens to us the mysteries of fish tails, frog calls, and other matters, and shows once and for all why we must take notice when a seemingly insignificant creature is threatened, like the land snail Partula from Moorea, whose extinction he movingly relates.

About Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He published over twenty books, including The Book of Life, Ever Since Darwin, The Flamingo's Smile, and Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes. Stephen received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William2

It's easy to think that we are the most ephemeral of creatures, our lifetimes but a blink in the overall scheme. One of the things I get from reading Gould is the knowledge that we are very ancient creatures. I am an ancient creature. On the cellular level "mitochondria and chloroplasts look uncanni......more

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes

Published in 1993, 'Eight Little Piggies' is Stephen Jay Gould's sixth book of collected essays. These essays, besides being full of fascinating natural science facts and history, discuss Gould's horror at the loss of animals around the world for the first time in a section, Part one: -The Scale of E......more

Goodreads review by Tomomi

Ever since I read The Panda's Thumb some years ago, I've considered Stephen Jay Gould as one of my personal heroes. Every time I go to a second-hand bookstore, I look in the Science section for some of his books. I picked this one up at Second Story Books near Dupont Circle along with The Lying Ston......more

Goodreads review by Jase

The brilliance of Stephen Jay Gould’s writing stems from the fact that he seems to be smarter than everyone else. He knows more stuff and is better at synthesising it into coherent arguments. But there’s a warmth and a sweetness to Gould’s smartness that makes these comments somewhat misleading. The......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List