Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes

Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes

Author	Steven Jay Gould
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Norton
Publication date	1983
Pages	413
ISBN	0393017168
LC Class	QH366.2 .G66 1983
Preceded by	The Panda's Thumb
Followed by	The Flamingo's Smile

Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (1983) is Stephen Jay Gould's third volume of collected essays reprinted from his monthly columns for Natural History magazine titled "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".

Reviews

• "And Zebra Stripes and Chocolate Bars", by Steven Rose, The New York Times sect. 7, p. 3.

External links

• W. W. Norton promotional page

Books by Stephen Jay Gould General An Urchin in the Storm The Mismeasure of Man Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle Wonderful Life Full House Questioning the Millennium Rocks of Ages The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox Essay collections from Natural History Ever Since Darwin The Panda's Thumb Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes The Flamingo's Smile Bully for Brontosaurus Eight Little Piggies Dinosaur in a Haystack Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms The Lying Stones of Marrakech I Have Landed Technical Ontogeny and Phylogeny The Structure of Evolutionary Theory