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| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Norton |
| Publication date | 1985 |
| Publication place | United States |
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| Pages | 476 |
| ISBN | 0393022285 |
| LC Class | QH81 .G673 1985 |
| Preceded by | Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes |
| Followed by | Bully for Brontosaurus |
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History, published in 1985, is the fourth volume of collected essays from evolutionary biologist and well-known science writer Stephen Jay Gould.
The essays were culled from his monthly column The View of Life in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for more than two decades. The book deals, in typically discursive fashion, with themes familiar to Gould's writing: evolution and its teaching, science biography, probabilities and common sense.
The title essay, "The Flamingo's Smile", discusses changes in morphology arising as a consequence of behavior, as illustrated by the beak and tongue of the flamingo. Topics discussed in other essays include SETI, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the Omphalos hypothesis, and the importance of taxonomy.
References
- Sheppard, R. Z. (1985). "ANTIDOTES THE FLAMINGO'S SMILE by Stephen Jay Gould Norton; 476 Pages; $17.95". TIME Magazine. Vol. 126, no. 13. p. 76. Retrieved 22 December 2024 – via EBSCOhost.
External links
- Quammen, David (22 September 1985). "Evolution and the .400 Hitter". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
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