SOURCE: Graber, David. “A Breathtaking Way of Essaying Chickens and Eggs.” Los Angeles Times Book Review (17 July 1983): 3.

In the following review, Graber discusses how Gould builds on Darwin's theories in Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes.

Until only a century ago, communication, even social intercourse, was a commonplace among leading intellectual lights of Western culture. Sharing—for the most part—elements of class, education, and a body of knowledge now banished by the demands of specialization, writers, social thinkers, scientists and artists knew one another well enough to participate in a satisfying exchange of ideas. For several reasons, alas, those days are no more.

The party that has most severely absented itself is science: It is one thing to share with a 19th-century astronomer the telescopic view of Saturn's rings, but quite another to discuss with a contemporary theoretical physicist the first nanosecond in the life of the universe...