The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Natural History.

"ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY AND PERHAPS THE BEST KNOWN SINCE DARWIN’:FIRST EDITION OF THE FLAMINGO’s SMILE, SIGNED BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD

The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Natural History.

GOULD, Stephen Jay.

Item Number: 3913

New York: W.W. Norton, 1985.

First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen Jay Gould on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike McIver.

Gould himself is a rare and wonderful animal-a member of the endangered species known as the ruby-throated polymath. . . . [He] is a leading theorist on large-scale patterns in evolution . . . [and] one of the sharpest and most humane thinkers in the sciences" (David Quammen).

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