Stephen Jay Gould: 21 books

Un dinosaurio en un pajar es un volumen de reflexiones sobre historia natural de Stephen Jay Gould, una colección de ensayos tan brillantes en su planteamiento como variados en sus temas. Una explosión de insospechadas conexiones entre teorías científicas, anécdotas históricas y curiosidades...

"Gould is a natural writer; he has something to say and the inclination and skill with which to say it."—P. B. Medawar, New York Review of Books With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical...

Esta es una de las obras fundamentales del gran paleontólogo recientemente fallecido y uno de los alegatos científicos más devastadores de las teorías racistas. En sus páginas, Gould estudia los diversos intentos realizados a lo largo del tiempo para medir la inteligencia humana: primero a través...

"Gould himself is a rare and wonderful animal—a member of the endangered species known as the ruby-throated polymath. . . . [He] is a leading theorist on large-scale patterns in evolution . . . [and] one of the sharpest and most humane thinkers in the sciences." --David Quammen, New York Times Book Review

"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing...

Thomas H. Huxley was one of the first supporters of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, and he did more than any other writer to advance its acceptance among scientists and nonscientists alike. His most famous book, Man’s Place in Nature, published only five years after...

En sus páginas encontraremos historias sorprendentes (como la de George el Solitario, el último superviviente de una especie de tortugas que habrá desaparecido cuando él muera), descubriremos aspectos desconocidos de la historia de los seres vivos (que los primeros vertebrados terrestres tenían...