Download or read book Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume of 21 recent essays published in "Natural History" magazine consciously formulates a humanistic natural history, telling how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself. 41 illustrations.