Full name: Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History

Author: Stephen Jay Gould Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, History, Essays Purchase/reserch links: Amazon OpenLibrary Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780517703939 9780517888247 0517703939 0517888246

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. This book is part of the "Reflections in Natural History" series. Here are some other books from this series: "Bully for Brontosaurus" First published in 1991 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Flamingo's Smile" First published in 1985 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes" First published in 1983 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Panda's Thumb" First published in 1980 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Ever Since Darwin" First published in 1977 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: Bully for Brontosaurus by Stephen Jay Gould The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes by Stephen Jay Gould Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould The Flamingo's Smile by Stephen Jay Gould The Richness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms by Richard Fortey Life by Richard Fortey Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould The Flight of the Iguana by David Quammen The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin Evolution by James A. Shapiro In Search of Nature by Edward O. Wilson Ontogeny and Phylogeny by Stephen Jay Gould The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould Questioning the Millennium by Stephen Jay Gould Rocks of Ages by Stephen Jay Gould