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Gould is a natural writer he has something to say and the inclination and skill with which to say it P B Medawar New York Review of Books

With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone the commercial success of Goulds books now matches their critical acclaim The Pandas Thumb will introduce a new generation to this unique writer who has taken the art of the scientific essay to new heights

Were dinosaurs really dumber than lizards Why after all are roughly the same number of men and women born into the world What led the famous Dr Down to his theory of mongolism and its racist residue What do the pandas magical thumb and the sea turtles perilous migration tell us about imperfections that prove the evolutionary rule The wonders and mysteries of evolutionary biology are elegantly explored in these and other essays by the celebrated natural history writer Stephen Jay Gould