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Dinosaur in a Haystack is a 1995 book by the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. It collects essays culled from Gould's monthly column "The View of Life" published in Natural History magazine, which Gould contributed for 27 years.
- Stephen Jay Gould
- 1995
Jan 1, 2001 · The title essay "Dinosaur in a Haystack" (#12) is a very interesting tale about how loathed Luis Alvarez's 1980 meteoric impact theory--with its link to the Cretaceous-Palogene extinction event that killed off all the dinosaurs and made way for the expansion of mammal life--was by paleontologists generally when it was first published.
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Dec 17, 1996 · Dinosaur in a Haystack is a collection of 34 essays by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. Each essay involves some aspect of natural history as it intersects with contemporary life.
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- Stephen Jay Gould
- Stephen Jay Gould
Feb 8, 2010 · Essays originally published in the Natural history magazine. Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-467) and index. Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has perfected the art of the essay in this brilliant new collection.
Feb 1, 2021 · Dinosaur in a haystack : reflections in natural history. by. Gould, Stephen Jay. Publication date. 1996. Topics. Natural history, Evolution (Biology), Natural History, Genetics, Eugenics, Biological Evolution, Evolution. Publisher. London : Jonathan Cape.
Nov 29, 2011 · Dinosaur in a Haystack. Stephen Jay Gould. Harvard University Press, Nov 29, 2011 - Science - 496 pages. From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of...
Harvard University Press, 2011 - Science - 480 pages. Gould's seventh collection of essays covers a wide range of subjects in natural history, literature, and popular culture--from the wisdom of...
