Dinosaurs Stephen Jay Gould Analysis

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In a thought-provoking literary composition by Stephen Jay Gould, the hypotheses of dinosaur extinction are intermingled with the all-consuming thoughts and dilemmas that plague much of the modern society including: sex, drugs, and natural disasters; as well as one greater unknown, the extinction of dinosaurs. Gould adds the public’s lust for outré, controversial statements with real, scientific inferences. Plaguing the world with questionability, the argument for the dinosaurs’ extinction is still unidentified. But as Gould explains, discernments beyond the ordinary meteorite theory burgeon within the scientific

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