{"product_id":"eight-little-piggies","title":"Eight Little Piggies","description":"This collection of essays range from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over palaeontology to the origins of language. The title is a pun and as always with Gould, the joke has a point that illustrates the largest pattern of life's history. for millennia, the animals that populated the earth had four toes on each foot, or six. If evolution had taken a tiny shift - if man's ancestors had inherited a couple of genes in a different form - our canonical number, based on man's fingers and toes, might be eight instead of ten. Stephen Jay Gould has also written \"Wonderful Life\", \"Bully for Brontosaurus\" and \"Finders Keepers\".","brand":"Stephen Jay Gould","offers":[{"title":"Jonathan Cape \/ 18 Jan 1993 \/ 496","offer_id":52099603235157,"sku":"9780224037167","price":3.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0501\/4188\/8668\/files\/1_044d1805-98cc-4866-83d2-880509875c4b.jpg?v=1765908469","url":"https:\/\/www.bookworld.ie\/products\/eight-little-piggies","provider":"Book World Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}