Harvard Museum of Natural History

September 18, 2006

Highly Evolved: David Quammen at the HMNH tomorrow
By Sharon Steel

"Without speculation there is no good and original observation."

When Rhodes Scholar David Quammen realized he couldn’t cut it as a fiction writer (he did his graduate work on William Faulkner), he got into biology. And by “got into,” we mean he wrote a 702-page prize-winning book called The Song of the Dodo about remote-island biology.

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