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The title is a pun, and
as always with Gould the
joke has a point that
illustrates the largest
pattern of life's
history. For millennia
the animals that
populated the earth had
four toes on each foot,
or six. If evolution had
taken a tiny shift - if
our ancestors had
inherited a couple of
genes in a different form
- our canonical number,
based on our fingers and
toes, might be eight
instead of ten. This is
just one of the oddities
of history that Gould
deploys in this
wonderfully readable book
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When the eminent
naturalist Charles Darwin
returned from South
America on board the
H.M.S Beagle
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The theory of evolution
stands over modern
biology as quantum
mechanics and relativity
do over modern physics.
And few modern scientists
are as widely familiar
and celebrated as Darwin.
Yet most of us remain
less than entirely clear
as to how evolution by
natural selection works
and a series of
celebrated titles by such
writers as Stephen Jay
Gould and Richard Dawkins
do little to help, being
each so partisan of a
particular, contentious,
view of the subject.
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