Biography - Gould, Stephen Jay (1941-2002): An article ...
Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 23 Publication Date: 2004-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Full House Signed Edition: The Spread of Excellence from ...
 Amazon.com Review: The human mind has a trusty device for simplifying a complex world: reduce to averages and identify trends. Although valuable, the risk is that we ignore variations and end up with a skewed view of reality. In evolutionary terms, the [... more]
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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
Amazon.com Review: From high school biology classes to natural history specials on the Discovery Channel, we've been lead to believe that through the process of natural selection, life progresses toward increasing complexity. Stephen Jay Gould, a [... more]
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The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould
Love is a many spandreled thing: Anyone familiar with Gould will immediately understand and appreciative my little quip of a title. Stephen J Gould remains the quintessential scientist - a thirst for knowledge, an original thinker, king of the scientific [... more]
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Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life ...
Amazon.com Review: This is the most complete and original biological field guide in history. Lynn Margulis, one of the most brilliant biologists of the 20th century, and her colleague Karlene Schwartz provide a roller-skate tour of the whole world of [... more]
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Punctuated Equilibrium
Palaeontology wars: This book was originally the central chapter of Gould's masterpiece, "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory". It would have benefited greatly from a substantial re-write to make it more useful to the non-specialist reader. [... more]
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Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology
Wallace in a nutshell: Alfred Russel Wallace was one of the nineteenth century's most brilliant observers of man and nature. He is best known for his working out of the theory of natural selection, and the way his communication to Darwin on the subject [... more]
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The Mismeasure of Man
Amazon.com Review: How smart are you? If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do you mean by 'smart,'" "How do I measure it," and "Who's asking?"), then The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen [... more]
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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
awestruck: When I first cracked this book as a graduate student, I had little idea of what I was in for: sure, I expected a little on Darwin's theories and some history, but nothing else. What I found was an astonishingly rich panorama of issues [... more]
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Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
Amazon.com Review: Revered and eminently readable essayist Stephen Jay Gould has once again rendered the complex simple, this time mending the seeming split between the two "Rocks of Ages," science and religion. He quickly, and rightfully, [... more]
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Crossing Over Where Art and Science Meet
The Inimitable Stephen Gould: What a jewel! I have read all the essays and most of the other works of Gould but this one, while not the deepest or most technical (in fact it is the lightest of all) - is wondrous. The use of art, the meaning and methods [... more]
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Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History ...
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History: Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History by Stephan Jay Gould is pure Gold or is that Gould. This is the sixth in a series of books on Gould's essays found in "Natural History." [... more]
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