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Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould (Hardcover, 1993)

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ISBN : 0224037161. Eight Little Piggies. Reflections In Natural History. Title : Eight Little Piggies. Authors : Gould, Stephen Jay. About Aardvaark Books Ltd. PAPERBACK . Classification Notes .

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This collection of essays range from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over palaeontology to the origins of language. The title is a pun and as always with Gould, the joke has a point that illustrates the largest pattern of life's history. for millennia, the animals that populated the earth had four toes on each foot, or six. If evolution had taken a tiny shift - if man's ancestors had inherited a couple of genes in a different form - our canonical number, based on man's fingers and toes, might be eight instead of ten. Stephen Jay Gould has also written Wonderful Life , Bully for Brontosaurus and Finders Keepers .