Collected essays on evolution, nature, and the cosmos
By: Loren Eiseley ; William Cronon, editor
Contributors: Cronon, William, editor
Series: The Library of America -- 285; Library of America -- 285.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781598535068
Subjects: Technology and civilization; Nature; Social aspects; Science; Evolution (Biology); Philosophy; Anthropology; Civilization; Human evolution; Natural history; Human ecology; Technology; Social evolution; Naturalists
Other titles: Eiseley :
Description: "A paleontologist with the spirit of a poet."--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 470-490) and index.
Table of contents: title: The immense journey; title: The firmament of time; title: The unexpected universe; title: Uncollected prose.; title: The immense journey. The slit ; The flow of the river ; The great deeps ; The snout ; How flowers changed the world ; The real secret of Piltdown ; The maze ; The dream animal ; Man of the future ; Little men and flying saucers ; The judgement of the birds ; The bird and the machine ; The secret of life; title: The firmament of time. How the world became natural ; How death became natural ; How life became natural ; How man became natural ; How human is man? ; How natural is "natural"?; title: The unexpected universe. The ghost continent ; The unexpected universe ; The hidden teacher ; The star thrower ; The angry winter ; The golden alphabet ; The invisible island ; The inner galaxy ; The innocent fox ; The last Neanderthal; title: Uncollected prose. Autumn : a memory ; Riding on the Peddlers ; The mop to K.C. ; Neanderthal Man and the dawn of human paleontology ; From The lost notebooks.