Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History

From Fads To Fungus, Baseball To Beeswax, Gould Always Circles Back To The Great Themes Of Time, Change, And History, Carrying Readers Home To The Centering Theme Of Evolution. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Come Seven -- Part One. Heaven And Earth -- 1. Happy Thoughts On A Sunny Day In New York City -- 2. Dousing Diminutive Dennis's Debate (or Dodd= 2000) -- 3. The Celestial Mechanic And The Earthly Naturalist -- 4. The Late Birth Of A Flat Earth -- Part Two. Literature And Science -- 5· The Monster's Human Nature -- 6. The Tooth And Claw Centennial -- 7. Sweetness And Light -- Part Three. Origin, Stability, And Extinction -- Origin -- 8. In The Mind Of The Beholder -- 9. Of Tongue Worms, Velvet Worms, And Water Bears -- Stability -- 10. Cordelia's Dilemma -- 11. Lucy On The Earth In Stasis -- Extinction -- 12. Dinosaur In A Haystack -- 13. Jove's Thunderbolts -- Part Four. Writing About Snails -- 14. Poe's Greatest Hit -- 15. The Invisible Woman -- 16. Left Snails And Right Minds -- Part Five: The Glory Of Museums -- 17. Dinomania -- 18. Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O! -- 19. Evolution By Walking -- 20. The Razumovsky Duet -- 21. Four Antelopes Of The Apocalypse -- Part Six. Disparate Faces Of Eugenics -- 22. Does The Stoneless Plum Instruct The Thinking Reed? -- 23. The Smoking Gun Of Eugenics -- 24. The Most Unkindest Cut Of All -- Part Seven. Evolutionary Theory, Evolutionary Stories -- Theory -- 25. Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution? -- 26. A Humongous Fungus Among Us -- 27. Speaking Of Snails And Scales -- Stories -- 28. Hooking Leviathan By Its Past -- 29. A Special Fondness For Beetles -- 30. If Kings Can Be Hermits, Then We Are All Monkeys' Uncles -- 31. Magnolias From Moscow -- Part Eight. Linnaeus And Darwin's Grandfather -- 32. The First Unmasking Of Nature -- 33. Ordering Nature By Budding And Full-breasted Sexuality -- 34. Four Metaphors In Three Generations -- Bibliography -- Index Stephen Jay Gould. Mode Of Access: Internet Via World Wide Web. In English.