
For the metaphor of cunning versus persistence that runs through this title, Gould refers to the 7th century B.C., when the Greek soldier-poet Archilochus said that "the fox devises many strategies; the hedgehog knows one great and effective strategy."



Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world.


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