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Dinosaur in a Haystack

Dinosaur in a Haystack

Dinosaur in a Haystack is a 1995 book by the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. It collects essays culled from Gould's monthly column "The View of Life" published in Natural History magazine, which Gould contributed for 27 years. The book deals with themes familiar to Gould's writing: evolution, science biography, probabilities, and strange oddities found in nature.


“Non vi è peggior schiavitù di quella che s'ignora.”

"Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O!", p. 246.
Dinosaur in a Haystack (1995)

“[M]isunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all general impediments to scientific literacy.”

"Happy Thoughts on a Sunny Day in New York City", p. 9
Dinosaur in a Haystack (1995)

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