Der Daumen des Panda

There is grandeur in this view of life wrote Charles Darwin in the last line of The Origin of Species with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.. In The Pandas Thumb Stephen Jay Gould delights and instructs while deepening and extending his examination of evolution a centerpiece of modern science. Were dinosaurs really dumber than lizards? Why are roughly the same number of men and women born? What do the pandas magical thumb and the sea turtles perilous migration tell us about imperfections that prove the evolutionary rule?