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   Looking for books by Stephen Jay Gould? See all books authored by Stephen Jay Gould, including Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, and The Mismeasure of Man, and more on ThriftBooks.com.

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   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.

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   Who was Stephen Jay Gould?

   • Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

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   What did Stephen Jay Gould do for Evolutionary Biology?

   • With his controversial opinions and larger-than-life personality, Stephen Jay Gould did for evolutionary biology what Carl Sagan did for astronomy. The Harvard paleontologist's ideas lit a spark within the scientific community, but his bestselling works also managed to engage the wider public.

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   Why did John Gould become a bestselling author?

   • The Harvard paleontologist's ideas lit a spark within the scientific community, but his bestselling works also managed to engage the wider public. Through his readable and provocative works, Gould garnered acclaim as an author who could write intelligently -- and intelligibly -- about some of his field s most arcane issues and questions.

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   Does Gould think life is contingent?

   • But even though many scientists disagree with Gould about the radical oddity of the Burgess Shale animals, his argument that the history of life is profoundly contingent--as in the movie It's a Wonderful Life, from which this book takes its title--has become more accepted, in theories such as Ward and Brownlee's Rare Earth hypothesis.

   Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

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   • 4.1/5 (3.6K)
   • Death Date: May 20, 2002

   • Birth Date: September 10, 1941

   • Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History.
   • The Mismeasure of Man.
   • The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History.
   • Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History.

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   In his books Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), The Mismeasure of Man (1981), Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle (1987), and Wonderful Life (1989), he traced the course and significance of various controversies in the history of evolutionary biology, intelligence testing, geology, and paleontology.

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7. thegreatestbooks.org › authors › 5000The Greatest Books: Stephen Jay Gould

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   Stephen Jay Gould was an influential American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was known for his contributions to evolutionary theory and for his ability to communicate complex scientific ideas to a broad audience.

8. www.albany.edu › our-mission › stephen-jay-gouldStephen Jay Gould | University at Albany

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   Dec 5, 1996 · A leading evolutionary biologist, Stephen Jay Gould is admired by specialists and general interest readers alike for explaining difficult scientific theories in writing which is accessible, but never trivializing, and always entertaining. Gould is the author of 15 books, most recently, Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin.

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   Sep 17, 1990 · In Wonderful Life, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould relates the impact of the scientific revision of the fossil specimens collected by Charles Walcott from the famous locality known as the Burgess Shale.

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