Volume 35, Number 3 · March 3, 1988

Pussycats and the Owl

By Stephen Jay Gould
The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age
by Harriet Ritvo

Harvard University Press, 347 pp., $25.00

One Man's Owl
by Bernd Heinrich

Princeton University Press, 224 pp., $19.50

In a letter to Engels, Karl Marx noted an uncanny similarity between natural selection and Victorian economic realities:



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