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Carregando... The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History (1985)de Stephen Jay Gould
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is volume 4 of the collected essays by the late Stephen Jay Gould. As before, it is the usual mixture of some rather esoteric ones that go a bit over my head and subjects I find more interesting. I had to skip the article on baseball however, being from the UK and unable to drum up any interest. The discussion of mass extinctions was interesting, given that these essays were written during the period when the theory that the dinosaurs (and many marine invertebrates) had been wiped out by an asteroid strike was beginning to gather sufficient evidence to be accepted. Some of the articles have no doubt been superseded by more recent scientific developments which is problematic when a reader such as myself doesn't know which have been affected. So all in all, I rate this at 3 stars. ( ) > Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Gould-Le-sourire-du-flamant-rose/11481 > BAnQ (Rogel J.-P.., Québec science, 2002, Novembre, p. 17) : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2874295 > LE SOURIRE DU FLAMANT ROSE, de Stephen Jay Gould. — Les réflexions de Stephen Jay Gould sur l'histoire naturelle. Le livre est traduit de l’américain. Plusieurs publications scientifiques vulgarisées dont Le Pouce du Panda et Quand les Poules auront des dents ont rendu Gould célèbre. Il raconte dans cet ouvrage l’histoire de la vie par des histoires naturelles, l’histoire des idées et par des histoires humaines. Il conte les flamants qui se nourrissent à l’envers, les escargots qui changent de sexe, l’énigme de l’âge de la Terre, le problème de la vie extraterrestre, notre avenir menacé par l’hiver nucléaire et bien d’autres choses agréables à lire. Editions du Seuil, 448 pages. —Le soleil, 27 mars 1988, B-2 : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2889129 > Stephen Jay Gould, LE SOURIRE DU FLAMANT ROSE. Réflexions sur l’histoire naturelle — STEPHEN JAY GOULD est reconnu pour ses ouvrages sur la théorie de l’évolution. Dans ses livres précédents, Darwin et les grandes énigmes de la vie, Le Pouce du panda et Quand les poules auront des dents, il exposait les grands principes de la théorie de l’évolution et tentait d’en tirer la conclusion politique et sa signification humaniste. Dans cet ouvrage, il cherche à cerner la nature de l’histoire en dégageant la signification profonde du fait que l’évolution de la vie sur terre a été modelée par des circonstances fortuites et n’est pas le résultat inévitable et prévisible de lois naturelles simples agissant en dehors de l’histoire. Un beau recueil d’articles fort intéressants. Seuil, 441 pages. (Guy FERLAND) —Le devoir, 27 févr. 1988, D-4 : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2761419 Another collection of Gould's essays on evolution, natural history, palentology, baseball, etc. I've enjoyed his essays since I first started reading them many years back and this one is just as good. It is an older collection so it was interesting to read about the new at the time theory of mas extinction by asteroid and also an essay on nuclear winter. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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