Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History
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More essays on evolution by the late Stephen Jay Gould. Gould was a very good, very clear writer. Chapters, each with 2 - 4 essays, include:
- Heaven and Earth
- Literature and Science
- Origin, Stability, and Extinction
---Origin
---Stability
---Extinction
- Writing about Science
- Disparate Faces of Eugenics
- Evolutionary Theory and Stories
---Theory
---Stories
-Linnnaeus and Darwin's Grandfather
ISBN 0-517-88824-6
Here's a link to an article that describes a formerly missing link, found in 1997, between dinosaurs and the "first bird" fossil, Achaeopteryx (2 pages in PDF format).
Books by Stephen Jay Gould:
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
- Leonardo's Mountain of Clams & the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History
- The Mismeasure of Man
- Bully for Brontosaurus
- Ever Since Darwin
- The Panda's Thumb
- The Flamingo's Smile
- Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
- Eight Little Piggies
- Dinosaur in a Haystack
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
Books by Lewis Thomas:
- The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
- The Medusa and the Snail More Notes of a Biology Watcher
- The Fragile Species
- The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher
- Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
Books by Annie Dillard:
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Heaven and Earth
- Literature and Science
- Origin, Stability, and Extinction
---Origin
---Stability
---Extinction
- Writing about Science
- Disparate Faces of Eugenics
- Evolutionary Theory and Stories
---Theory
---Stories
-Linnnaeus and Darwin's Grandfather
ISBN 0-517-88824-6
Here's a link to an article that describes a formerly missing link, found in 1997, between dinosaurs and the "first bird" fossil, Achaeopteryx (2 pages in PDF format).
Books by Stephen Jay Gould:
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
- Leonardo's Mountain of Clams & the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History
- The Mismeasure of Man
- Bully for Brontosaurus
- Ever Since Darwin
- The Panda's Thumb
- The Flamingo's Smile
- Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
- Eight Little Piggies
- Dinosaur in a Haystack
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
Books by Lewis Thomas:
- The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
- The Medusa and the Snail More Notes of a Biology Watcher
- The Fragile Species
- The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher
- Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
Books by Annie Dillard:
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek