Eight Little Piggies : Reflections in Natural History
(2023)
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2023
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 17 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9798765090855 MWT15941122, 15941122
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Jonathan Sleep
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
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