The Washington Post, March 7th, 1993
Robert Kanigel EIGHT LITTLE PIGGIES Reflections in Natural History By Stephen Jay Gould Norton. 479 pp. $22.95 WHAT MAKES Gould so good? What is it about his essays on natural history, of which Eight Little Piggies represents his sixth collection, that his readers find so pleasing? Two dissonant facts prompt the question. Fact No. 1: Stephen Jay Gould writes about dead snails, dead biologists and dead theories, and when he does write about live things they have names like Xiphophorus maculatus. This is not, on its surface, promising. Fact No. 2: A lot of people, including me, will read anyth...
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