Understanding Scientific Prose

(Part of the Rhetoric of the Human Sciences Series)

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Examining science as a rhetorical enterprise, this book seizes upon one scientific essay-"The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme"-and probes it from many angles. Written by prominent evolutionary theorists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin and first published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London in 1979, the "Spandrels" article is both serious science and vivid...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0299139042

ISBN13:9780299139049

Release Date:July 1993

Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press

Length:406 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.7" x 8.5"

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Essays & Commentary Evolution History & Philosophy Language Arts Literature & Fiction Rhetoric Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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