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Cargando... Dientes de gallina y dedos de caballo : reflexiones sobre historia natural (1983)por Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Jay Gould
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Paperback ( ) Volume 3 of the collected essays of this author was a mix as usual of rather dry ones I found hard to get into, and more interesting topics such as whether all varieties of zebra (there are three, each with distinctive stripe patterns) are actually related and whether the capacity for stripes is inherent in horses as a whole (it is). Another essay deals with the development of the horse leg and how two toes fused to another bone but in some throw backs appear as large toes branching off the leg too high up to actually function as toes. I was puzzled by the section on the Piltdown Man hoax since the previous volume included a similar article on the subject - it seems that after the one in the present volume was originally published a furore resulted with defenders of Teilhard de Chardin launching vicious attacks upon Gould. In this volume, a second article appears where he refuted the arguments of a few more prominent attacks (while drawing a veil over nastier comments which, reading between the lines, might have been anti-Semitic, the author being Jewish). I don't know why they reacted thus after this second essay when seemingly the first very similar one passed unremarked. One essay discusses the possibility of an asteroid being responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs - this is so well accepted today that it's interesting to see the early stages of the introduction of this idea. On the whole this balances out as 3 stars. Witty and well-informed as ever. One of the best is on how pioneers of statistics got it all wrong about immigration, moulding their criteria to fit their racist prejudices. Several excursions into Darwin, how wide-ranging he was, what a master of detail as well as grand theory. Strong on, or rather against, creationists - no such thing as "scientific creationism". Seems to be a particularly American delusion, a precursor to our present "post-truth" culture. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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El exito obtenido por la Historia del tiempo, de Stephen Hawking, propicio la creacion, en 1991, de esta coleccion de divulgacion cientifica que fue dirigida durante largo tiempo por dos personas de formacion humanistica: de ahi ciertas contaminaciones al inicio de la coleccion. Sin embargo, cuando Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron se hizo cargo de ella, dio un aprobado a la gestion anterior. En esta coleccion, quiza la mas ambiciosa de todas las de divulgacion cientifica que se editan en espanol, se han publicado obras de Stephen Jay Gould, Carl Sagan, lan Stewart, Edward O. Wilson, Antonio Damasio, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Ilya Prigogine, John D. Barrow, Rita Levi Montalcini, Richard P. Feynman, Roger Penrose, Steven Weinberg, Rachel Carson, Francisco Garcia Olmedo, Francisco Yndurain o Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron. Puede una gallina desarrollar dientes? De que color es una cebra? En cada interrogante, y en cada respuesta, subyacen conceptos basicos de la ciencia y, en particular, los que ayudan a la comprension de la evolucion. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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