Bully for Brontosaurus (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Jay Gould
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Science/Nature
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Science and technology
- Subjects: History, Philosophy or philosophers, Suicide, Science or scientists, Morality or morals, Geology or geologists, Evolution, Biology or biologists, Natural history
The world as depicted by Gould in the thirty-five essays of BULLY FOR BRONTOSAURUS is a complex and wonderful place. It is populated not only by small kiwi birds laying gigantic eggs and Australian frogs brooding tadpoles in their stomachs, but also by human beings whose behavior is so strange that Gould is able to delineate a convincing relationship between a bullet in the left buttock of a conservative British statesman and the composition of Charles Darwin’s ORIGIN OF SPECIES. Although some critics believe that Gould has exaggerated the strangeness of biological and human...
[The entire page is 558 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Navigate
See Also
