Volume 43, Number 16 · October 17, 1996
Up Against the Wall
By Steve Jones
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History
by Stephen Jay Gould
Harmony Books, 480 pp., $25.00
FULL HOUSE: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
by Stephen Jay Gould
Harmony Books, 244 pp., $25.00
Stephen Jay Gould on a bad day can be the Lincoln Continental of science writing—ponderous, well upholstered, and designed to travel in a straight line. Comfortable, certainly; assured—no one can doubt that—and if you turn on the radio you are certain to get grand opera; but, somehow, well, just too Executive Style, too Harvard Yard, to sell anywhere except in America.
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