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Dinosaur in a Haystack is the seventh volume of collected essay

Essay

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s by the Harvard

Harvard University

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Paleontology

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Stephen Jay Gould

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. The essays were culled from his monthly column "The View of Life" in Natural History
Natural History (magazine)
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magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27 years. The book deals, in typically discursive fashion, with themes familiar to Gould's writing: evolution and its teaching, science biography, probabilities and common sense. Gould even analyzed a controversial conchology textbook, The Conchologist's First Book
The Conchologist's First Book
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, edited by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

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in 1839.

Come Seven
1. Heaven and Earth
  1. Happy Thoughts on a Sunny Day in New York City
  2. Dousing Diminutive Dennis's Debate (or DDDD = 2000)
  3. The Celestial Mechanic and the Earthly Naturalist
  4. The Late Birth of a Flat Earth
2. Literature and Science
  1. The Monster's Human Nature
  2. The Tooth and Claw Centennial
  3. Sweetness and Light
3. Origin, Stability, and Extinction
  
  Origin
  1. In the Mind of the Beholder
  2. Of Tongue Worms, Velvet Worms, and Water Bears
  Stability
  1. Cordelia's Dilemma
  2. Lucy on the Earth in Stasis
  Extinction
  1. Dinosaur in a Haystack
  2. Jove's Thunderbolts
4. Writing about Snails
  1. Poe's Greatest Hit
  2. The Invisible Woman
  3. Left Snails and Right Minds
5. The Glory of Museums
  1. Dinomania
  2. Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O!
  3. Evolution by Walking
  4. The Razumovsky Duet
  5. Four Antelopes of the Apocalypse
6. Disparate Faces of Eugenics
  1. Does the Stoneless Plum Instruct the Thinking Reed?
  2. The Smoking Gun of Eugenics
  3. The Most Unkindest Cut of All
7. Evolutionary Theory, Evolutionary Stories
  
  Theory
  1. Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution?
  2. A Humongous Fungus Among Us
  3. Speaking of Snails and Scales
  Stories
  1. Hooking Leviathan by Its Past
  2. A Special Fondness for Beetles
  3. If Kings Can Be Hermits, Then We Are All Monkeys' Uncles
  4. Magnolias from Moscow
8. Linnaeus and Darwin's Grandfather
  1. The First Unmasking of Nature
  2. Ordering Nature by Budding and Full-Breasted Sexuality
  3. Four Metaphors in Three Generations

Bibliography

Index

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Snails, Frankenstein and King Lear's Daughter - by Philip Lopate, The New York Times
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Two Cultures - by Howard A. Doughty, Innovation Journal
Book review - by Kathryn Denning
Book review - by Danny Yee

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