Series: Reflections In Natural History
by Author Stephen Jay Gould
I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History (2003)
Why Not in Wonderland?Once again, I have taken up a book of Stephen Jay Gould's essays. There is no doubt that he was one of the best essayists of our times, writing with humor, intelligence and feeling, But there is one theme that comes up far too often in his later essays to be ignored. This th...
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History (1994)
Una delle raccolte di saggi che preferisco del compianto Stephen Jay Gould. L'argomento è l'evoluzione, e la storia della scienza. Tra i pezzi fondamentali ci sono i tre articoli relativi a Teilhard e alla truffa di Piltdown, in cui Gould espone la sua tesi sulla probabile colpevolezza del giovan...
The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History (2001)
Published in 2000, this collection of essays from Natural History Magazine is subtitled Penultimate Reflections in Natural History because the "millennial issue" of January 2001 was to carry the 300th in an unbroken series of Gould's monthly columns since 1973, which would be the last. His "Prefa...
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History (1999)
I started reading Natural History magazine several years ago, because I loved the essays of Stephen Jay Gould that appeared in each monthly issue; each essay had something to do with evolution (with Charles Darwin’s name invoked regularly), and were quite entertaining reading, along with being ed...
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History (1992)
Stephen Jay Gould was adept at reviewing scientific missteps and errors and building telling lessons from them. His essays are highly discursive, often taking twists and turns through little known bits of history and popular culture, as a means of explicating complex concepts. He was a brilliant ...
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History (1987)
This book is 30 years old and still highly readable. It's about biology, more specifically about Darwinian evolution and the history of science. Quite good and gripping writing explaining what is still pretty much the current state of our knowledge. Gould has a fondness for rehabilitating scienti...
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (1992)
This is a book of essays originally published by Gould in Natural History magazine, during the time that he was its editor (one of several such books, in fact). As such, it is an effort on his part to appeal to an educated popular audience with snippets of information about current research, part...
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History (1994)
Mr. Gould was a Harvard professor and since the early 70's has been writing essayson natural history, evolution, paleontology (study of prehistoric life). His essays were bundledand published into books. Dinosaur in a haystack was probably his most notable.I've liked his works as he's very access...