Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998) is the eighth volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "The View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27 years. The book deals, in typically discursive fashion, with themes familiar to Gould's writing: evolution and its teaching, science biography, probabilities and common sense. Reviews Book Summary: by Lawrence N. Goeller Book Review: by Jacqueline Boone, New York Times The Royal Road of Science: by Bryan Appleyard, Spectator Book review: by Jim Sullivan, Humanist Review by Graham Brack, Renaissance Book Review by Jim Walker Book summary: by Ryan Robinson External links Profile Page (with introduction) - Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive 1998 non-fiction books American essay collections Books by Stephen Jay Gould English-language books Works originally published in Natural History (magazine)