SOURCE: Kohn, Marek. “Pick and Mix.” New Statesman and Society 237, no. 6 (29 January 1993): 49.

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 down. The weirdest and most memorable of the fauna in the bestiary of the Burgess Shale, the trove of fossils about which Stephen Jay Gould wrote the award-winning Wonderful Life, has now been reinterpreted. It never quite made sense as an organism living anywhere more real than a Dr Who set, but it can be rationalised by a couple of assumptions and rotation through 180 degrees. This removes it from a class of its own, and places it neatly into a caterpillar-like group which stumps around certain damp regions of the southern hemisphere to this day.

Hallucigenia owes much of its celebrity to its name, the “Lucy in the Sky with...