The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“It is a wonder what Mr. Gould can do with the most unlikely phenomena: a tiny organism's use of the earth's magnetic field as a guide to food and comfort, for instance, or the panda's thumb—which isn't one. . . . Science writing at its best.” (The New Yorker)“Stephen Jay Gould is a serious and gifted interpreter of biological theory, of the history of ideas and of the cultural context of scientific discovery. . . .The Panda's Thumbis fresh and mind-stretching. Above all, it is exultant. So should its readers be.” (H. Jack Geiger - New York Times Book Review)