Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history
Auteur :
Gould, Stephen Jay
Éditeur :
Vintage Publishing
ISBN :
9780099507444
Date de publication :
1 févr. 2007
Dimensions :
19,8 x 12,9 x 2,9 cm
Poids :
331 g
Format :
B-format paperback
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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 book deploys this, which is one of the oddities of history.