Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history

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From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution.

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Full title :Dinosaur in a haystack : reflections in natural history / Stephen Jay Gould.

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From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution.

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Publication Date:2011.
Edition:1st Harvard University Press ed

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Publisher(s):Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

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Description:xv, 480 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

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ISBN:9780674061606, 0674061608
oclc:ocn709670364
LC Classification:QH366.2
Dewey Decimal:508

Pt. 1. Heaven and Earth -- pt. 2. Literature and science -- pt. 3. Origins, stability, and extinction -- pt. 4. Writing about snails -- pt. 5. The glory of museums -- pt. 6. Disparate faces of Eugenes -- pt. 7. Evolutionary theory, evolutionary stories -- pt. 8. Linnaeus and Darwin's grandfather.