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From: New Statesman and Society[(review date 3 May 1991) In the following review, Kohn offers a positive assessment of Bully for Brontosaurus.] Stephen Jay Gould is halfway into an essay [in Bully for Brontosaurus,] having kicked off with Handel and...
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From: Spectator[(review date 30 November 1996) In the following review, Bywater examines Gould's arguments about evolution in Life's Grandeur.] We live in interesting times and I sometimes wonder if we realise just how interesting...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersAn intellectually lively scientist and popularizer of his field, Stephen Jay Gould has garnered a prodigious number of awards and honorary degrees for the excellence of his writing, which is primarily centered on...
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From: Times Literary Supplement[(review date 9 June 2000) In the following review, Coyne discusses what he sees as Gould's many analytical errors in Rocks of Ages, particularly his failure to provide an acceptable definition of religion.] Like...
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From: Publishers Weekly[(review date 13 October 1989) In the following review, Smith examines the commentary in Wonderful Life on the Burgess Shale rock formation, discovered in 1909 by paleontologist Charles Walcott, and his misinterpretation...
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From: New Scientist[(review date 5 October 1996) In the following review, Alexander focuses on Gould's views about trends in evolution in Full House and the problems associated with interpreting means, averages, and statistics.]...
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From: CLIOGiven his intention in Wonderful Life to explain “the nature of history itself,” we might expect Stephen Jay Gould to describe the rise and fall of nations and states, the triumphs and tragedies of great leaders, or even...
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From: Free Inquiry[(review date fall 1999) In the following review, Flynn asserts that Rocks of Ages, which purports to help bridge the divide between science and religion, actually does the opposite.] "Faith and knowledge are totally...
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From: New Statesman and Society[(review date 29 January 1993) In the following review, Kohn praises Gould's "spirit of intellectual generosity" in Eight Little Piggies.] Looks like Hallucigenia wasn't such an apparition after all; merely upside...
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From: Commonweal[(review date 23 April 1999) In the following review, Johnson focuses on the papal statement that Gould uses in his analysis of religion and science in Rocks of Ages.] In October 1996 Pope John Paul II sent a statement...
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From: America[(review date 6 August 1983) In the following review, Sullivan examines Gould's major arguments in Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, noting Gould's focus on creationism and the different approaches to explaining evolution.]...
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From: Commonweal[(review date 27 September 1991) In the following review, Haegel offers a positive assessment of Bully for Brontosaurus, calling the work a "rich and integrated collection of essays."] Bully for Brontosaurus is Stephen...
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From: Times Literary Supplement[(review date 10 April 1998) In the following review, Masters offers a mixed assessment of Questioning the Millennium, asserting that Gould does not explore the issue adequately.] Stephen Jay Gould's questions [in...
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From: The New York Times Book Review[Lopate reviews Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History, by Stephen Jay Gould.] By his own definition, the scientist Stephen Jay Gould is “an essay machine.” Since 1974 he has been churning out one a...
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From: The New York Times Book Review[Rose, an educator and editor, reviews Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, by Stephen Jay Gould.] A nuclear physicist friend was once challenged by a colleague over the incomprehensibility of his subject. Nonsense, my friend...
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From: New Republic[(review date 29 January 1990) In the following review, Wright asserts that Gould's "punctuated equilibria" theory in Wonderful Life is neither original nor relevant to the discussion of evolution.] The acclaim for...
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From: New Statesman[(review date 29 November 1996) In the following review, Vines discusses possible reasons behind the popularity of Gould's books about evolution and science and offers a mixed assessment of Life's Grandeur.] The...
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From: Quadrant[(review date April 2000) In the following review of Rocks of Ages, Blackford cautions that Gould misinterprets the nature of religion as well as its scope.] While there is considerable controversy about Stephen Jay...
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From: American Scientist[(review date September/October 1988) In the following review, the critic questions the self-reflective nature of An Urchin in the Storm.] How should a collection of reviews be reviewed? I would rather not second guess...
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From: Spectator[(review date 20 July 1996) In the following review, Oakeshott offers a positive assessment of Dinosaur in a Haystack.] When and why was the column--or more accurately the puzzle strip--'Believe it or Not' by Ripley,...