Name: Bully for Brontosaurus
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Stephen Jay Gould

A collection of thirty-five essays--representing the best of the column "This View of Life" from "Natural History" magazine--focuses on the themes of evolution and of the innumerable oddities of nature

Bully for Brontosaurus

further reflections in natural history

Bully for brontosaurus

Gavin

This meant a lot to me as a teen. Just one bit: the essay "Male Nipples and Clitoral Ripples" - with its shocking claim that only 30% of women orgasm from "PIV" intercourse - scandalised me. (He bases this on the notably shoddy work of Kinsey and Hite, but it may be worse than that.) The main point of that piece - using the pleasure-poor design of the two genitalia to attack a straw man view he calls "hyperadaptationism" - had less effect on me, luckily.

There are odd synopses of each essay here.

(I give general reasons to distrust Gould here.)

Bully for Brontosaurus

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