by Stephen Jay Gould · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246281511
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«Le Pouce du panda. Les Grandes énigmes de l'évolution» is Stephen Jay Gould's essay, published by Grasset in paperback (318 pages, in French).
Stephen Jay Gould brings together essays on evolutionary biology, starting from curiosities such as the panda's thumb, sex ratios or the migration of sea turtles to explain evolution and question the idea of linear progress. He also analyses changes in icons such as Mickey Mouse or the Michelin Man.
Second instalment of the Reflections in Natural History series; original work «The Panda's Thumb» (1980), translated into French by Jacques Chabert. The work won the National Book Award in 1981 (science).
For readers interested in popular science, biology and evolution, with a taste for essays.
Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and one of the most widely read authors of popular science of his generation. He is considered by many to be one of the most influential figures in evolutionary biology. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1996, Gould was hired as the Vincent Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology at New York University, after which he divided his time teaching between there and Harvard.
