Eight Little Piggies

Miraculously good * The Times *
Remarkable... Gould takes his readers on tough-minded rambles across the visible surface of things... extraordinary * Guardian *
Gould has a talent for making the scientific, and particularly the revolutionary, interesting and striking * Sunday Times *
A lovely mixture of bizarre facts, nice arguments, clever insights into the workings of evolution and a quality of writing that can make your skin prickle... Gould has given us a feast * Nature *
Rather than serving up his science cold, Gould invariably puts a spin on it, taking his readers down the innumerable byways of history, literature and personal anecdote along the route to his theoretical conclusions * Independent on Sunday *
Reading Gould is not merely a pleasure but an education and a chronicle of the times * Observer *
The most readable of scientists * Financial Times *
One of the best essayists in the business. He uses his wide background knowledge as a bridge to entice non-scientists into sharing the excitement of scientific discovery and the curious, convoluted path of new ideas through history * Scotsman *
Few writers of popular science have given more pelasure to more readers than Stephen Jay Gould...He packs a clout few science writers can match * New York Times Book Review *
Who could resist a title like that - and knowing the author, who wouldn't surmise that Gould...demonstrat{es} that five fingers and five toes are not the primordial/canonical mammalian standard...Essays that reveal Gould in midlife, as passionate and articulate as ever, but older and wiser * Kirkus Reviews *