
鸡的牙齿与马的脚趾
Hen's teeth and horse's toes
Stephen Jay Gould、Marcel Blanc · 初版 1983 年
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汇编了三十篇主要发表于 ##Natural history magazine## 且围绕演化论展开的随笔。分为七个部分:合理的怪异现象——人物特写——适应与演化——Teilhard 与皮尔当人——科学与政治——灭绝——斑马三部曲。作者为哈佛大学教授,此前曾出版过另外两部文集:##Darwin et les grandes énigmes de la vie##(1979)与 ##Le pouce du panda##(1982)。[SDM]。
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……浮现在我脑海中的):托马斯·S·库恩的《科学革命的结构》、爱德华·O·威尔逊的《缤纷的生命》、乔纳森·韦纳的《雀喙之谜:我们时代的演化故事》、斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德的《母鸡的牙齿与马的脚趾:自然史的进一步沉思》、安德鲁·H·诺尔的《年轻地球上的生命》、库尔特·冯内古特的《加拉帕戈斯群岛》(小说,但相关)(我很喜欢这本书,但它并不适合所有人……
…to my mind): "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" By Thomas S. Kuhn "The Diversity of Life" By Edward O. Wilson "The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time" by Jonathan Weiner "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History" by Stephen Jay Gould "Life on a Young Planet" By Andrew H. Knoll "Galápagos" By Kurt Vonnegut (Fiction, but related) (I loved this book, but it's not for everyone…
哦,还有在 1983 年,斯蒂芬·J·古尔德在《母鸡的牙齿与马的脚趾》中写了一篇杂文《好时巧克力排的系统发生学缩水》,讲的是 1949 年到 1979 年间好时巧克力排尺寸缩水的事。这是 archive.org 上的一份副本链接:https://archive.org/details/hensteethhorsest00goulrich/page/...…
Oh, and in 1983 Stephen J. Gould in "Hen's teeth and horse's toes" wrote the essay "Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars" about the diminishing size of Hershey bars between 1949 to 1979. Here's a link to one copy at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/hensteethhorsest00goulrich/page/...…
……这本身就很罕见),E·J·科拉尔和 C·费希尔报道了一种巧妙的技术,能诱导鸡展现出从遥远过去保留下来的一些令人惊奇的遗传可塑性。”——斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德,《母鸡的牙齿与马的脚趾》。后面跟着两页技术解释,但他们确实成功让鸡胚胎组织长出了牙齿。
…a rarity in itself), E.J. Kollar and C. Fisher reported an ingenious technique for coaxing chickens to reveal some surprising genetic flexibility retained from a distant past." -- Stephen Jay Gould, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes Two pages of technical explanation follow, but they got chicken embryo tissue to produce teeth.
斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德写在《母鸡的牙齿与马的脚趾》里的《好时巧克力排的系统发生学缩水》(链接:https://archive.org/details/hensteethhorsest00step/page/314/...),展示了尺寸是如何从 1960 年的 2.0 盎司一路缩水到 1980 年该书出版时的 1.2 盎司。
Stephen Jay Gould's "Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars", in "Hen's teeth and horse's toes" at https://archive.org/details/hensteethhorsest00step/page/314/... shows the size trend from the 2.0 ounces of 1960 to the the 1.2 ounce of 1980, when it was published.