Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History - Softcover

Gould, Stephen Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393009173 ISBN 13: 9780393009170

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1979

Synopsis

Darwin revolutionized the world of Natural history with his discoveries, but were they truly based of facts?

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He published over twenty books, received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship.

Review:

“A remarkable achievement by any measure. [Gould] is profoundly intelligent, a writer of great natural wit, and his sophistication and learning range far beyond the parameters of his academic field, biology. . . . One is hard pressed to single out past writers who could wear the sobriquet of natural history essayist with such distinction.”
- David Walsten, Chicago Tribune

“A shrewd and learned intellectual whose essays on Charles Darwin have the style and address of what in other circumstances might be the writing of a literary critic upon Stendhal or Proust or other such major figure in the world of letters.”
- P. B. Medawar, The Sciences

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0393009173
• ISBN 13: 9780393009170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 285