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Country
  
United States

Publisher
  
Norton

Pages
  
413

Originally published
  
1983

Page count
  
413

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1983

LC Class
  
QH366.2 .G66 1983

Author
  
Stephen Jay Gould

ISBN
  
0393017168

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Genres
  
Essay, Non-fiction, Science

Awards
  
Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science

Similar
  
Works by Stephen Jay Gould, Science books, Evolution books

Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (1983) is Stephen Jay Gould's third volume of collected essays reprinted from his monthly columns for Natural History magazine titled "This view of life". Three essays appeared elsewhere. "Evolution as Fact and Theory" first appeared in Discover 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".

Reviews

  • Steven Rose, "And Zebra Stripes and Chocolate Bars", The New York Times, 8 May 1983, section 7, page 3.
  • Richard Dawkins, "The Art of the Developable. Review of Pluto's Republic by Peter Medawar and Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes by Stephen Jay Gould", reprinted in The Devil's Chaplain: Selected Essays, Phoenix, 2003 (ISBN 978-0-7538-1750-6).

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