Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He published over twenty books, received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
"A lovely mixture of bizarre facts, nice arguments, clever insights into the workings of evolution and a quality of writing that can make your skin prickle... Gould has given us a feast." -- Nature "Like the master, Darwin, [Gould] has a gift for metaphor-for finding striking analogies that highlight the organizing principles behind Nature." -- Newsday "Who could resist a title like that-and, knowing the author, who wouldn't surmise that Gould ... demonstrate[s] that five fingers and five toes are not the primordial/canonical mammalian standard... Essays that reveal Gould in midlife, as passionate and articulate as ever, but older and wiser." -- Kirkus Reviews "Few writers of popular science have given more pleasure to more readers than Stephen Jay Gould... He packs a clout few science writers can match." -- New York Times Book Review
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