Deep Time
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Also available in Italian.
"If you've been reading newspaper and science magazine
accounts
of contentious issues in paleontology and evolutionary
biology
and wondering what's really behind
so much of the debate, this is the book for you."
-- Kevin Padian in Scientific American
(see the full review
here)
"The two great strengths of Gee's account are its
iconoclastic destruction of many popular evolutionary
scenarios
and the author's intimate knowledge of the personalities
and events surrounding the revolution."
-- Peter J. Bowler in American Scientist
"[A] model of good science writing,
not only making a desperately arcane subject
comprehensible but entertaining"
-- Seattle Weekly
"Gee's book is terrific and should be read
by anyone with an interest in the history of science"
-- Joseph Slowinski in Ibis
"As Gee's brilliant analysis shows, viewed afresh,
evolution proves a more interesting and exciting
-- if more complex -- story than we ever thought"
-- The Scotsman
"Gee's corrective arguments at once ground his science
in humility
and liberate thinking about Deep Time
through their invitation to chart a seamless topology
of life then and now."
-- Kirkus Reviews
"In Deep Time, Henry Gee eloquently and
entertaining explains
exactly why this Revolution in Evolution
is both interesting and important
to our understanding of the past."
-- The Herald
"Henry Gee's fascinating book explains how
a relatively new method of classifying life
revolutionises our picture of the world."
-- A. C. Grayling in the Literary Review
"The author is a master of the English language.
Reading sentences such as 'an hypothesis without a test
is like a spare groom at a wedding:
he may be decorative, but his utility ends there' (p.
90),
one is likely to miss one's station on the commute,
as almost happened to me."
-- Olivier Rieppel in the Quarterly Review
of Biology
"Cladistics has the reputation of being abstruse and severely
technical
... but Gee explains the basics with exemplary clarity
and frequent help from his cat, Fred (they are related,
but distantly)."
-- Jon Turney in New Scientist
