The Flamingo's Smile
0393022285LC Class QH81 .G673 1985 Preceded by Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes Followed by Bully for Brontosaurus General Technical
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
- Quammen, David (September 22, 1985). "Evolution and the .400 Hitter". The New York Times. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
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Books by Stephen Jay Gould
- An Urchin in the Storm
- The Mismeasure of Man
- Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
- Wonderful Life
- Full House
- Questioning the Millennium
- Rocks of Ages
- The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox
Essay collections
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from Natural History
- Ever Since Darwin
- The Panda's Thumb
- Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
- The Flamingo's Smile
- Bully for Brontosaurus
- Eight Little Piggies
- Dinosaur in a Haystack
- Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
- The Lying Stones of Marrakech
- I Have Landed
- Ontogeny and Phylogeny
- The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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