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Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones
Waiting for Aphrodite Journeys into the Time Before Bones
Author: Sue Hubbell
"We humans are a minority of giants, stumbling around in the world of little things," Sue Hubbell writes in this marvelous book. Each of these little things "has a complicated and special way of getting on in the world, different from ours and different from one another's." In Waiting for Aphrodite she explores the ways of sponges and sea urchin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780618056842
ISBN-10: 061805684X
Publication Date: 5/3/2000
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Mariner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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While I generally enjoy Ms. Hubbell's writing, I was disappointed to learn that she thinks the word "theory" has a different meaning in the scientific community than it has in the dictionary. The "theory of evolution" is still an unproven theory. Unlike, oh, say, "the law of gravity."

If a writer doesn't adhere to the rule that words have a distinct and precise meaning, it's no wonder that so often people can't communicate even though they appear to speak the same language.

Now that she's left Missouri, I doubt I'll read anything she publishes in the future.
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