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One of the twentieth century’s great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries , they take up the tradition of Gould’s acclaimed essays on natural history, offering a series of wry and insightful reflections on the fields ...
Aug 1, 2015 · Harvard University paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who died in 2002, was a tough-minded skeptic who did not suffer fools gladly when it came to pseudoscience and superstition. Gould was a ...
Jun 13, 2011 · In a 1981 book, “The Mismeasure of Man,” the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould asserted that Morton, believing that brain size was a measure of intelligence, had subconsciously manipulated the ...
Mar 21, 2002 · Stephen Jay Gould doesn't hold anything back in this remarkable and important book. Impressive on many levels, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory represents Gould's all-out attempt to revise and extend evolutionary theory as proposed by Darwin in 1859...Gould's respect and admiration (I would even say, love) for Darwin as a scientist and as a man have been evident throughout all his writings ...
Stephen Jay Gould was a highly successful participant in this salubri-ous arrangement among scientists, agents, publishers and readers. With the exception of his first book, which was a monograph on the relationship between development and evolution (Ontogeny and Phylogeny), and his last
Stephen Jay Gould. Paperback. ISBN 9780674891999. Publication date: 01/01/1988. Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould’s command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and dead bones ...
Evolution as Fact and Theory. by Stephen Jay Gould. irtley Mather, who died last year at age ninety, was a pillar of both science and Christian religion in America and one of my dearest friends. The difference of a half-century in our ages evaporated before our common interests. The most curious thing we shared was a battle we each fought at ...
