کوه صدف‌های لئوناردو و رژیم کرم‌ها: مقالاتی در تاریخ طبیعی

Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). It is also the first of the final three such collections, since Dr. Gould has announced that the series will end with the turn of the millennium. In this collection, Gould consciously and unconventionally formulates a humanistic natural history, a consideration of how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself. With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature's and humanity's diversity and order. In affecting short biographies, he depicts how scholars grapple with problems of science and philosophy as he illuminates the interaction of the outer world with the unique human ability to struggle to understand the whys and wherefores of existence. From the Hardcover edition. Contents......Page 8 Introduction: Pieces of Eight: Confession of a Humanistic Naturalist......Page 12 I. Art and Science......Page 26 1. The Upwardly Mobile Fossils of Leonardo’sLiving Earth......Page 28 2. The Great Western and the Fighting Temeraire......Page 56 3. Seeing Eye to Eye, Through a Glass Clearly......Page 68 II. Biographies in Evolution......Page 86 4. The Clam Stripped Bare by Her Naturalists, Even......Page 88 5. Darwin’s American Soulmate: A Bird’s-Eye View......Page 110 6. A Seahorse for All Races......Page 130 7. Mr. Sophia’s Pony......Page 152 III. Human Prehistory......Page 170 8. Up Against a Wall......Page 172 9. A Lesson from the Old Masters......Page 190 10. Our Unusual Unity......Page 208 IV. Of History and Toleration ......Page 224 11. A Cerion for Christopher......Page 226 12. The Dodo in the Caucus Race......Page 242 13. The Diet of Worms and the Defenestration of Prague......Page 262 V. Evolution Facts and Theories......Page 278 14. Non-Overlapping Magisteria......Page 280 15. Boyle’s Law and Darwin’s Details......Page 296 16. The Tallest Tale......Page 312 17. Brotherhood by Inversion (or, As the Worm Turns)......Page 330 VI. Different Perception of Common Truths......Page 348 18. War of the World views......Page 350 19. Triumph of the Root-Heads......Page 366 20. Can We Truly Know Sloth and Rapacity?......Page 386 21. Reversing Established Orders......Page 404 Bibliography......Page 416 Illustration Credits......Page 423 Index......Page 425