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'Rocks of Ages is vintage, spell-binding Stephen Jay Gould,challenging, passionate and beguiling' The ...
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He is the author of over twenty books, and received the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the MacArthur Fellowship. He died in May 2002.
'Rocks of Ages is vintage, spell-binding Stephen Jay Gould,challenging, passionate and beguiling' The Times
The latest book from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world. Gould uses the centuries-old conflict between science and the humanities - between the notion of relying solely on experiment ...
A dazzling and generous selection of the best and most representative writing by one of the best loved scientists and science writers
This is the sixth in the great series of essays that the world's best science writer has produced. They range over a vast field, from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over ...
'Matchless examples of the strengths of a historical imagination roaming across a scientific subject' Guardian
'Reading Gould is not merely a pleasure but an education and a chronicle of the times' Observer
Science meets sport in this vibrant collection of baseball essays but the late evolutionary biologist.