Bully for Brontosaurus, Stephen Jay Gould
Bully for Brontosaurus, Stephen Jay Gould
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Bully for Brontosaurus
Reflections in Natural History

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

Narrator: Jonathan Sleep

Unabridged: 17 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/08/2023

Synopsis

"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

About Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He published over twenty books, including The Book of Life, Ever Since Darwin, The Flamingo's Smile, and Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes. Stephen received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William2

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 man......more

Goodreads review by Emily

It’s been a while since I’ve revisited Stephen Jay Gould’s natural history essays, which were one of my big inspirations when I was a kid when it came to thinking of biology as a career. I’m always pleased to find how well they hold up! Not always in terms of the state-of-the-science – it would be w......more

Goodreads review by Caroline

I read the first half of this book about 10 years ago, and went back a few days ago to read the rest. Why the break? It was a good read....I have no idea why I came to a halt. Having finished the book I went back and looked at some of the earlier essays - Bully For Brontosaurus....a wonderful discuss......more

Goodreads review by Uranium

Stephen Jay Gould, aka La Teoria Degli Equilibri Punteggiati Scusate Se È Poco, è l'autore di questo libro che racchiude 16 saggi incentrati sulla teoria dell'evoluzione e sulla storia naturale. Se pensate di trovarvi di fronte a saggi scritti in gergo strettamente tecnico-scientifico, conditi con t......more

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