Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould | Science |
ISBN: 0393311031 Global Overview for this book
Registered by monado of Toronto, Ontario Canada on 7/22/2003
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Journal Entry 1 by monado from Toronto, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Excellent essays about evolutionary biology.

The point about hen's teeth is that hens still have the genes to make teeth, but only if the tissue is touching bone... and they don't have jawbones any more. This is an example of how an organism's form can change without a direct genetic change.

ISBN of my copy is 0393302008.

Books by Stephen Jay Gould:
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
- Leonardo's Mountain of Clams & the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History
- The Mismeasure of Man
- Bully for Brontosaurus
- Ever Since Darwin
- The Panda's Thumb
- The Flamingo's Smile
- Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
- Eight Little Piggies
- Dinosaur in a Haystack
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History

Books by Lewis Thomas:
- The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
- The Medusa and the Snail More Notes of a Biology Watcher
- The Fragile Species
- The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher
- Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

Books by Annie Dillard:
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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