ID: 2617
Dinosaur in a Haystack
Stephen Jay Gould
Category: First Edition
Place/Publisher/Date:
New York, Harmony Books. 1967.
Description:
First editio, 8vo; original boards and dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to his close friend and editor at Natural History Magazine, "Richard + Jude All the best dear old friends / Stephen Jay Gould". Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) the renowned American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and science historian, spent much of his career as a professor at Harvard University and worked as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History. Gould was a prolific writer and communicator and a prominent advocate for the theory of punctuated equilibrium. Dinosaur in a Haystack is one of his celebrated collections of essays that originally appeared in Natural History magazine. Essays in this collection delve into topics ranging from fossils and extinction to the ethics of science and the misuse of evolutionary theory in popular culture. Fine.
Price £750.00
