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Few writers of popular science have given more pelasure to more readers than Stephen Jay Gould...He packs a clout few science writers can match New York Times Book Review Who could resist a title like that - and knowing the author, who wouldn't surmise that Gould...demonstrat{es} that five fingers and five toes are not the primordial/canonical mammalian standard...Essays that reveal Gould in midlife, as passionate and articulate as ever, but older and wiser Kirkus Reviews Like the master, Darwin, [Gould] has a gift for metaphor Newsday

Miraculously good The Times Remarkable... Gould takes his readers on tough-minded rambles across the visible surface of things... extraordinary Guardian Gould has a talent for making the scientific, and particularly the revolutionary, interesting and striking Sunday Times A lovely mixture of bizarre facts, nice arguments, clever insights into the workings of evolution and a quality of writing that can make your skin prickle... Gould has given us a feast Nature Rather than serving up his science cold, Gould invariably puts a spin on it, taking his readers down the innumerable byways of history, literature and personal anecdote along the route to his theoretical conclusions Independent on Sunday

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Stephen Jay Gould was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of geology at Harvard and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the university's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He died in May 2002.

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