Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes

Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes is Stephen Jay Gould's third volume of collected essays reprinted from his monthly columns for Natural History magazine, entitled "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". The book was dedicated to his mother Eleanor, "brave woman, wise owl.

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Author:Stephen Jay Gould
Genre:Non-fiction, Science, Essay
Year published:1983
Number of editions:3

Honors and Awards

YearAward Won
1983 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science
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Author of Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes

Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould
September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002
Birthplace:Queens, New York

Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum...
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Additional works by Stephen Jay Gould
BookCopyright DateGenre
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory 2002 Non-fiction
The Mismeasure of Man 1981 Non-fiction
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time Non-fiction
Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin 1996 Non-fiction
Bully for Brontosaurus Non-fiction
An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas 1987 Non-fiction
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox 2003 Non-fiction
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History Non-fiction
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History 1990 Non-fiction
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History 1995 Non-fiction
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History 1992 Non-fiction
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History Non-fiction
I Have Landed Non-fiction
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms Non-fiction
Ontogeny and Phylogeny Non-fiction
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown 1997 Non-fiction
Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life Non-fiction
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History Non-fiction
The Lying Stones of Marrakech 2000 Non-fiction
La foire aux dinosaures 1997 Non-fiction
Erase Una Vez El Zorro y El Erizo 2004 Non-fiction
An evolutionary microcosm: Pleistocene and recent history of the land snail P. (Poecilozonites) in Bermuda
Ciencia Versus Religion - Un Falso Conflicto 2001 Non-fiction
Punctuated Equilibrium 2007 Non-fiction
Un hérisson dans la tempête 1994 Non-fiction
Crossing Over: Where Art and Science Meet 2000 Non-fiction
Der Jahrtausend- Zahlenzauber. Durch die Scheinwelt numerischer Ordnungen
Darwin et les grandes énigmes de la vie 1984 Non-fiction
Comme les huit doigts de la main 1998 Non-fiction
Alexis Rockman 2003 Non-fiction
The Richness of Life: The Essential 2006 Non-fiction
Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography 1992 Non-fiction
Et Dieu dit: "Que Darwin soit!" 2000 Non-fiction
The Book of Life Non-fiction
The individual in Darwinʼs world 1990 Non-fiction
Conversations About the End of Time 1999 Non-fiction
Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors Non-fiction
Illusion Fortschritt. Die vielfältigen Wege der Evolution 1999 Non-fiction
Les Quatre Antilopes de l'Apocalypse 2000 Non-fiction
L'Eventail du vivant 1997 Non-fiction
Natural history of Cerion VIII
Brontosaurus Y La Nalga Del Ministro 1993 Non-fiction
The Evolution of Gryphaea Non-fiction
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball 2003 Non-fiction
Crossing over
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