استیون جی گولد

شست پاندا در واقع زایده‌ای است از یکی از استخوان‌های مچ او که باعث می‌شود پاندا بتواند توسط آن به راحتی برگ‌های گیاه بامبو را که غذای اصلی این حیوان هستند، قطع کند. در واقع پنجه پاندا شامل پنج انگشت به همراه یک شست است! استفان جی گولد، دیرین‌شناس و زیست‌شناس انگلیسی معتقد بود که وجود این زایده که به صورت شست پدیدار …

"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."―James Gleick, New York Times Book Review High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry …

Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball is a book by Stephen Jay Gould.

Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle is a 1987 history of geology by Stephen Jay Gould offering a historical account of the conceptualization of Deep Time and uniformitarianism using the works of Thomas Burnet, James Hutton, and Charles Lyell.

The individual in Darwinʼs world is a book by Stephen Jay Gould.

The Structure of Evolutionary Theory is a technical book on macroevolutionary theory by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, published only two months before his death. The volume is divided into two parts. The first is a historical study and exegesis of classical evolutionary thought, drawing extensively upon …