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Dinosaur in a Haystack

Reflections in Natural History
  • Stephen Jay Gould
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1995
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From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution.

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Gould Stephen Jay :

Stephen Jay Gould was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. A MacArthur Prize Fellow, he received innumerable honors and awards and wrote many books, including Ontogeny and Phylogeny and Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (both from Harvard).


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PART ONE. HEAVEN AND EARTH

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PART TWO. LITERATURE AND SCIENCE

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PART THREE. ORIGIN, STABILITY, AND EXTINCTION
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EXTINCTION

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PART FOUR. WRITING ABOUT SNAILS

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PART FIVE: THE GLORY OF MUSEUMS

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PART SIX. DISPARATE FACES OF EUGENICS

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PART SEVEN. EVOLUTIONARY THEORY, EVOLUTIONARY STORIES
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PART EIGHT. LINNAEUS AND DARWIN'S GRANDFATHER

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