Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History - Softcover

Gould, Stephen Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674061608 ISBN 13: 9780674061606

Publisher: Harvard UP, 2011

Synopsis

Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has perfected the art of the essay in this brilliant new collection. These thirty-four essays, most originally published in Natural History magazine, exemplify the keen insight with which Dr. Gould observes the natural world and convey the infectious enthusiasm for fossils and evolutionary theory that has made his books award-winning, national best-sellers. In his latest musings on evolution and other natural phenomena, Gould reveals the uncanny interconnections among distinctly human creations - museums, literature, music, politics, and culture - encompassing a delightfully, wide range of topics, from giant fossils, fads, and fungus to baseball, beeswax, and blaauwbocks, from a humanistic look at Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Erasmus Darwin's poetry to the fallacies of eugenics and creationism and the moral imperatives of thinking people to meet the ethical challenges that pseudo-science presents.

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Review:

[Gould] writes in a consistently graceful, approachable style, with easy elegance and clarity, and he is an incomparable explainer of difficult ideas.--Phillip Lopate "New York Times Book Review "

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard UP
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0674061608
• ISBN 13: 9780674061606
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480