Le sourire du flamant rose
réflexions sur l'histoire naturelle
Traduit de l'anglais par Dominique Teyssié
- Genres
- Sciences & nature · suggéré d'après classement BnF
- Titre original
- The flamingo's smile
- Éditeur
- Éd. du Seuil ses parutions →
- Collection
- Points. Sciences n° 87 toute la collection →
- Parution
- 1993
- Pages
- 516
- Format
- broché, 18 cm
- Prix Ă©diteur
- 58 F
- Langue
- français 🇫🇷
- ISBN
- 9782020194167 · 2020194163
- Ailleurs
- Goodreads ↗
"THE FLAMINGO'S SMILE is about history," writes the author in this volume of essays, "...and about what it means to say that life is the product of a contingent past, not the inevitable and predictable result of simple, timeless laws of nature. Quirkiness and meaning are my two not-so-contradictory themes." Flamingos that feed upside down; flowers and snails that change from male to female; the probability that an errant asteroid sounded the death knell of the dinosaurs and ushered in the evolution of mankind...these are only a few of the things that open our eyes to the endless delights of Gould's subject...evolutionary theory.
Darwinisme · Variabilité · Biologie -- Philosophie