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...Panda's Thumb. Stephen Gould combines a feeling of childlike wonderment with pedagogical earnestness and leads his readers on a fascinating and entertaining field trip through the largest natural history museum of them all--the world. Instead of exhibits, though, Gould presents us with a collection of essays that bring to life the subjects of natural history better than any reconstructed dinosaur of stuffed dodo...
...essays, which Gould selected from among those he has written for Natural History magazine, discuss such far-flung topics as Anglerfish and Mickey Mouse, Lamarckism and tides. The purpose of bringing these diverse subjects together in one volume. Gould tells us in his prologue, is to teach us something about evolutionary theory--no surprise to those who know Gould, professor of Geology, through his course Natural Sciences...
...only know of the people who come to see me for abortion referrals or pregnancy counseling," Nadja Gould, UHS assistant director, who compiled the statistics, said last week...
...Gould added that because UHS will reimburse women $150--most of an abortion's cost--they have an incentive to visit...
Today more and more scientists seem to be matching their talent for experimentation with a surprising gift for exposition. One of them is a Harvard paleontologist named Stephen Jay Gould, 39, author of two pellucid collections of essays on evolution (Ever Since Darwin, The Panda's Thumb). Another is Dr. Lewis Thomas, 66, whose humane writings on biology and medicine in the pages of the New England Journal of Medicine became the basis for two bestsellers (The Lives of a Cell, The Medusa and the Snail). Others include Physicists Jeremy Bernstein, 50, a regular contributor to The New Yorker; Robert...