Stephen Jay Gould, SIGNED Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, 1st Ed, 1st Print, 1983

Description: Stephen Jay Gould, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, 1st Ed., 1st Printing, SIGNED, 1983 Title Author Date Printing ISBN Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes Stephen Jay Gould 1983 Stated 1st Edition; First Printing 0-393-01716-8 Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes by Stephen Jay Gould, published by W.W. Norton & Company, 1983, 8-1/2 in. x 6 in., 413 pages. Hardcover in excellent condition with dust jacket in good (plastic protected), price clipped, with a smudge on the upper left corner of the dust jacket, a name plate of a former owner on the flyleaf, and an inscription by Gould on that same flyleaf. Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (1983) is Stephen Jay Gould's third volume of collected essays reprinted from his monthly columns for Natural History magazine titled "This View of Life" with three of these essays appearing elsewhere. "Evolution as Fact and Theory" first appeared in Discover magazine in May 1981; "Phyletic size decrease in Hershey bars" appeared in C. J. Rubins's Junk Food, 1980; and his "Reply to critics", was written specifically for this volume as a commentary upon criticism of essay 16, "The Piltdown Conspiracy". Reviews"Lively and fascinating. . . . [Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature."―Tracy Kidder Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy state," writes Stephen Jay Gould, its most engaging and illuminating exponent. Exploring the "peculiar and mysterious particulars of nature," Gould introduces the reader to some of the many and wonderful manifestations of evolutionary biology. Editorial Reviews"Delectable. . . . A happy evolutionary tour de force. Gould is a true natural philosopher in the grand tradition of the Enlightenment. Read, learn, and enjoy."― Washington Post Book World "Lively and fascinating. . . . [Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature." ― Tracy Kidder About the Author Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was an internationally renowned and influential evolutionary biologist, a best-selling author equally respected by academic and general interest readers, and certainly one of the most influential and most acclaimed science essayists of the 20th century. Gould was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University, the curator for Invertebrate Paleontology in the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. He published over twenty books, received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Prize Fellow, and continues to influence critical scientific thinking and evolutionary theory well into the 21st century. Note to Buyers: I am selling my entire expansive geological reference library assembled over a 40-year period, including every one of my Stephen Jay Gould hardcover books, many of them signed by the author. These are relatively rare First Edition, First Printings, not latter printings or reprints, all with original dust jackets. Also on auction is my complete geological reference library, composed of original mid- to late 1800s to early 1900s New Jersey Geological Survey (NJGS) Annual Reports and Special Reports, USGS Professional Papers and Bulletins related to Atlantic Coastal Plain geology, stratigraphy, and paleontology, and long out-of-print New Jersey Geological Survey groundwater reference reports published by the NJGS from a time when they issued print versions of the State’s most important geological studies (so please see my other auctions or search for "Stephen Jay Gould" or “Geology" or under my eBay account "Rockman58"). 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