Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History - Softcover

Gould, Stephen Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039330857X ISBN 13: 9780393308570

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992

"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review

Review:

Stephen Jay Gould has a wide range of interests, and for many years he has shared his enthusiasms in the pages of Natural History and the New York Review of Books, among other journals. His passions include baseball, the puzzles of evolutionary theory, and the game of scholarly detection as it applies to questions such as, "What became of dinosaurs, anyway?". He answers entertainingly, but never talks down to his readers. Gould is one of modern natural science's great popularizers, but he shuns the temptation to make the giant reptiles of prehistory the Smurfs of the 1990s, in the manner of a certain purple dinosaur. The 35 pieces gathered here make for fine browsing, full of sideways glances and digressions that eventually make sense.

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• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 039330857X
• ISBN 13: 9780393308570
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544