- Evolution (Biology), Natural History, Fossielen, Popular works
"In his ninth collection of essays, scientist Stephen Jay Gould once again offers his unmistakable perspective on natural history and the people who have tried to make sense of it. In twenty-three essays, Gould presents the richness and fascination of the various lives that have fueled the enterprise of science and opened our eyes to a world of unexpected wonders."--BOOK JACKET.
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Warm, spare, classical in form and character-led.
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen Jay Gould, Marcel Blanc
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 378
- Publisher
- Seuil, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Random House UK Ltd (A Division of Random House Group)
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780224050449
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“WE TEND TO THINK OF FAKERY AS AN ACTIVITY DEDIcated to minor moments of forgivable fun (from the whoopie cushion to the squirting lapel flower), or harmless embellishment (from my grandfather's vivid eyewitness tales of the Dempsey-Firpo fight he never attended, to the 250,000 people who swear they were there when Bobby Thomson hit his home run in a stadium with a maximal capacity of some fifty thousand).”
Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. - Wikipedia
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