Reflections in Natural History #6: Eight Little Piggies - Stephen Jay Gould

Category: Science
Language: English

Written by Stephen Jay Gould
Read by Jonathan Sleep
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould doesthe wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of collected essays—his sixth since Ever Since Darwin—Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives and to our ancestralgenerations. Along with way, he opens to us the mysteries of fish tails, frog calls, and other matters, and shows once and for all why we must take notice when a seemingly insignificant creature is threatened, like the land snail Partula from Moorea, whose extinction he movingly relates.