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's third volume of collected essays reprinted from his monthly columns for ''Natural History'' magazine titled "This View of Life". Three essays appeared elsewhere. "Evolution as Fact and Theory" first appeared in ''

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'' magazine in May 1981; "Phyletic size decrease in Hershey bars" appeared in C. J. Rubins's ''Junk Food'', 1980; and his "Reply to Critics", was written specifically for this volume as a commentary upon criticism of essay 16, "The Piltdown Conspiracy".

Awards

The book was awarded the 1983 Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science from th
Phi Beta Kappa Society

References

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and ''Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes'' by Stephen Jay Gould", reprinted in '' The Devil's Chaplain: Selected Essays'', Phoenix, 2003 ().
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