Dinosaur in a haystack [electronic resource] : reflections in natural history / Stephen Jay Gould.
Gould, Stephen Jay.
2011
QH366.2 .G659 2011eb
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Title Dinosaur in a haystack [electronic resource] : reflections in natural history / Stephen Jay Gould.
Author Gould, Stephen Jay.
Edition 1st Harvard University Press ed.
ISBN 9780674063426 (electronic book)
9780674061606
Publication Details Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 480 p.)
Call Number QH366.2 .G659 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 508
Summary 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.
Note Originally published: New York : Harmony Books, c1995.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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pt. 1. Heaven and Earth
pt. 2. Literature and science
pt. 3. Origins, stability, and extinction
pt. 4. Writing about snails
pt. 5. The glory of museums
pt. 6. Disparate faces of Eugenes.

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