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An outstanding five-book collection drawn from some of the finest science writing and natural history of the late 20th century. Spanning evolutionary biology, paleoanthropology, scientific memoir, and nature writing, this lot brings together two beloved works by Stephen Jay Gould, a landmark book on human origins, one of the most inspiring scientific autobiographies ever written, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning naturalist's lifetime of outdoor odysseys. This is a superb find for readers of popular science, collectors of natural history writing, biology students, and anyone drawn to the intersection of science, humanity, and the natural world at its most eloquent and thought-provoking.

📚 Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould Writing with bracing intelligence and elegant clarity, Gould sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance. Instead of choosing between science and religion, Gould proposes a golden mean — his principle of NOMA (nonoverlapping magisteria) — a resolution that allows science and religion to coexist in a position of respectful noninterference. Random House A concise, beautifully argued gem from one of science's greatest popularizers.

📚 Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould The longest-running series of scientific essays in history, drawn from Natural History magazine. In this collection, Gould consciously and unconventionally formulates a humanistic natural history — a consideration of how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself. Internet Archive With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature's and humanity's diversity and order. Amazon

📚 The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins by Alan Walker & Pat Shipman In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists on a dig in northern Kenya found something extraordinary: a nearly complete skeleton of Homo erectus — a creature that lived 1.5 million years ago and is widely thought to be the missing link between apes and humans. Alan Walker, one of the lead researchers, and his wife and fellow scientist Pat Shipman tell the story of that epochal find and reveal what it tells us about our earliest ancestors. Amazon A landmark work in the literature of human origins.

📚 Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life by Geerat Vermeij This remarkable memoir by the great marine biologist Geerat Vermeij — perhaps the world's leading authority on marine mollusks, and blind since the age of three — resonates on several levels: it is a profound and vivid exploration of the current state of evolutionary theory; an engaging memoir of scientific exploration carried out in exotic locales; and an acute examination of what it means to be sightless. Amazon Praised by the New York Times Book Review as a voyage of intellectual discovery.

📚 Into the Porcupine Cave and Other Odysseys: Adventures of an Occasional Naturalist by William W. Warner Ten essays collecting elegant, life-shaping events in the outdoors from Pulitzer Prize-winning naturalist Warner — just the type of experiences that in their undramatic way quietly become the stuff of memory. Kirkus Reviews Warner's adventures have taken him from the southernmost point of South America to North America's northernmost permanent Eskimo community — mobbed by howler monkeys in the Guatemalan rain forest, cruising the Florida Keys with hardcore birders, and experiencing the solitude of Maine's most isolated lighthouse. Biblio