Title: Unnecessary verbosity.
Product review: At the risk of sounding very shallow, as I read this latest offering by Gould, all I could keep thinking was, "Does this author have an editor"? And if so, why didn't she or he cut the extra verbage and some of the self-aggrandizement. I am well educated and keenly interested in the topic, but reading this tome was like slogging through molasses mixed with sand. I felt that the salient points could have been made in half of the words. In fact, after a while, I was reading only every other paragraph and not feeling like I was missing what Gould was attempting to convey. I wish that David Quammen or Carl Safina would publish a book on this subject. Their scientific writings are well researched, thorough and concise. I wouldn't spend the money on another of Gould's works, ever.
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