Bully for Brontosaurus"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review |
Contents
George Cannings Left Buttock and the Origin of Species | 21 |
Grimms Greatest Tale | 32 |
The Creation Myths of Cooperstown | 42 |
The Pandas Thumb of Technology | 59 |
DINOMANIA | 77 |
Bully for Brontosaurus | 79 |
6 The Dinosaur Ripoff | 94 |
ADAPTATION | 107 |
Here Goes Nothing | 294 |
INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY | 307 |
In a Jumbled Drawer | 309 |
Kropotkin Was No Crackpot | 325 |
Fleeming Jenkin Revisited | 340 |
The Passion of Antoine Lavoisier | 354 |
The Godfather of Disaster | 367 |
EVOLUTION AND CREATION | 383 |
Of Kiwi Eggs and the Liberty Bell | 109 |
Male Nipples and Clitoral Ripples | 124 |
Not Necessarily a Wing | 139 |
FADS AND FALLACIES | 153 |
The Case of the Creeping Fox Terrier Clone | 155 |
Lifes Little Joke | 168 |
The Chain of Reason versus the Chain of Thumbs | 182 |
ART AND SCIENCE | 199 |
Madame Jeanette | 201 |
Red Wings in the Sunset | 209 |
Petrus Campers Angle | 229 |
Literary Bias on the Slippery Slope | 241 |
DOWN UNDER | 253 |
Glow Big Glowworm | 255 |
To Be a Platypus | 269 |
Blighs Bounty | 281 |
Knight Takes Bishop? | 385 |
Genesis and Geology | 402 |
William Jennings Bryans Last Campaign | 416 |
An Essay on a Pig Roast | 432 |
Justice Scalias Misunderstanding | 448 |
NUMBERS AND PROBABILITY | 461 |
The Streak of Streaks | 463 |
The Median Isnt the Message | 473 |
The Ant and the Plant | 479 |
PLANETS AS PERSONS | 487 |
The Face of Miranda | 489 |
The Horn of Triton | 499 |
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