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  1. May 1, 2024 · For more than twenty-five years, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a column called "The View of Life" for Natural History magazine. More than thirty entries from that column comprise this collection, which covers topics from dinosaurs to baseball and nearly everything in between related to natural history and evolution. Among the essays included here are "A Humongous Fungus among Us ...

  2. Apr 19, 2024 · He was especially disdainful of the eminent paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, whose ideas on other factors of evolution were summarily dismissed by Mr. Dennett as “goulding.”

  3. Apr 15, 2024 · Photo credit: Ashley98lee, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.. It’s quite the case of unintended consequences. He didn’t mean it this way, of course, but the late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould’s iconic “panda’s thumb” argument for evolution poses an effective, if surprising, difficulty for atheists and agnostics.

  4. Apr 24, 2024 · Stephen Jay Gould — ‘I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal ta... I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and d...

  5. Apr 26, 2024 · Stephen Jay Gould: 20-Year Peritoneal Mesothelioma Survivor Stephen Jay Gould was a popular scientific author, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. Gould authored more than 20 books and hundreds of essays published in Natural History magazine.

  6. Apr 29, 2024 · Product Description. No one illuminates the wonderful workings of the natural world as perceptively and enjoyably as Stephen Jay Gould. In this volume of reflections on biology history and culture Gould addresses the burning issues of ecological crisis and contemporary species extinctions as well as giving us fascinating insights into evolution ...

  7. Apr 16, 2024 · Stephen Jay GOULD 2009-06-30 In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the controversial idea that the majority of species originates in geological moments (punctuations) and persists in stasis. Now, thirty-five

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