Leonardo's Moutain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the latest collection of bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from Natural History magazine. It is also the first of the final three such collections, since Dr. Gould has announced that the series will end with the turn of the millennium. In this collection Dr. Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature's and humanity's diversity and order; formulates a humanistic natural history, a consideration of how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself; and in affecting short biographies, depicts how scholars grapple with problems of science and philosophy as he illuminates the interaction of the outer world with the unique human ability to struggle to understand the whys and wherefores of existence.
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