Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes is Stephen Jay Gould's

Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation....

 third volume of collected essays reprinted from his monthly columns for Natural History magazine

Natural History (magazine)

Natural History is an American natural history magazine. The stated mission of the magazine is to promote public understanding and appreciation of nature and science.- History :...

, entitled "This view of life." Three essays appeared elsewhere. "Evolution as Fact and Theory" first appeared in Discover

Discover (magazine)

Discover is an American science magazine that publishes articles about science for a general audience. The monthly magazine was launched in October 1980 by Time Inc. It was sold to Family Media, the owners of Health, in 1987. Walt Disney Company bought the magazine when Family Media went out of...

 magazine in May 1981; "Phyletic size decrease in Hershey bars," appeared in C. J. Rubins's Junk Food, 1980; and his "Reply to critics," was written specifically for this volume as a commentary upon criticism of essay 16, "The Piltdown Conspiracy". The book was dedicated to his mother Eleanor, "brave woman, wise owl."

Contents

• Prologue
  
  1. SENSIBLE ODDITIES
     
     1. Big Fish, Little Fish
     
     
     2. Nonmoral Nature
        
     3. The Guano Ring
        
     4. Quick Lives and Quirky Changes
     
     
  2. PERSONALITIES
     
     Three Geologists
     
     5. The Titular Bishop of Titiopolis
        
     6. Hutton's Purpose
        
     7. The Sinkstones of Oeningen
        
     
     Three Biologists
     
     8. Agassiz in the Galapagos
        
     9. Worm for a Century, and All Seasons
        
     10. A Hearing for a Vavilov
     
     
  3. ADAPTATION AND DEVELOPMENT
     
     Adaptation
     
     11. Hyena Myths and Realities
         
     12. Kingdoms without wheels
         
     13. What Happens to Bodies if Genes Act for Themselves?
         
     
     Development
     
     14. Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
         
     15. Helpful Monsters
     
     
  4. TEILHARD AND PILTDOWN
     
     16. The Piltdown Conspiracy
         
     17. A Reply to Critics
         
     18. Our Natural Place
     
     
  5. SCIENCE AND POLITICS
     
     Creationism
     
     19. Evolution as Fact and Theory
         
     20. A Visit to Dayton
         
     21. Moon, Man, and Otto
         
     
     Race and Creed
     
     
     22. Science and Jewish Immigration
         
     23. The Politics of Census
     
     
  6. EXTINCTION
     
     24. Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars
         
     25. The Belt of an Asteroid
         
     26. Chance Riches
         
     27. O Grave, Where is Thy Victory?
     
     
  7. A ZEBRA TRILOGY
     
     28. What, If Anything, Is A Zebra
         
     29. How the Zebra Gets Its Stripes
         
     30. Quaggas, Coiled Oysters, and Flimsy Facts

Bibliography

Index

Blurbs

Reviews

• "And Zebra Stripes and Chocolate Bars" - by Steven Rose, The New York Times
  The New York Times
  The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
  
  sect. 7, p. 3.

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