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Originally Posted by kennyc
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I really liked that one - which tracks back through from humans to the dawn of life, meeting those with whom we share a common ancestor as we go along and hearing their "tale", very loosely based on Chaucer.
He's also covered the same ground from other perspectives: "Unweaving the rainbow" which is about how science doesn't take wonder away but embiggens it ("there is grandeur in this view of life" you might say); "The Selfish Gene" which is a gene-oriented view (we are the vehicles genes use to propagate themselves); "The greatest show on earth" his latest one about the over-whelming evidence for evolution. Most of his books explore the same subject with a different slant.
I'd like to read more Stephen Jay Gould, who also wrote on evolutionary biology for the layman - but I've not found his books as ebooks. Has anyone found a source for them?