num_pages: 480
description: Award-winning, bestselling author, evolutionary biologist, and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould takes the art of the essay to an unprecedented height of excellence in this vibrant new collection of writings on science and natural history. From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution. Illustrations.
language: English
title: Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History
titlecomplete: Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History
genres: Biology, Essays, Palaeontology, Science, Natural History, Dinosaurs, Nature, Evolution, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 2460
publisher: Harmony