Bully for Brontosaurus (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Stephen Jay Gould
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Scientific essays
- Principal Characters: Charles Darwin, Louis Agassiz, William Jennings Bryan, St. George Jackson Mivart
- 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
In one of the clinical stories discussed in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (1986), the neurologist Oliver Sacks states that every human being has an inner narrative the meaning of which constitutes his or her identity. In the course of many centuries, scientists have discovered that our planet and the life that evolved on it have a continuous history (although punctuated by periods of dramatic, discontinuous change), and the universal laws undergirding this history constitute its meaning. In Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural...
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