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"Nature is so wondrously complex and varied that almost anything possible does happen....I rejoice in [its] multifariousness and leave the chimera of certainty to politicians and preachers." --from Ever Since Darwin
Upon his death in 2002, Stephen Jay Gould stood at the pinnacle among observers of the natural world, recognized by Congress as a "living legend." His prodigious legacy--sixteen best-selling and prize-winning books, dozens of scientific papers, an unbroken series of three hundred essays in Natural History --combined to make Gould the most widely read science writer of our time. This indispensable collection of forty-eight pieces from his brilliant oeuvre includes selections from classics such as Ever Since Darwin and The Mismeasure of Man , plus articles and speeches never before published in book form.
This volume, the last that will bear his name, spotlights his elegance, depth, and sheer pleasure in our world--a true celebration of an extraordinary mind.
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Adult/High School-One of the most widely known and accessible of science writers, Gould reveled in living in a period of rapid scientific progress. Exploring this "best of all enterprises at the best of all possible times," he communicates his wonder and enthusiasm. The editor draws from hundreds of essays published from the 1970s until the scientist's death in 2002, organizing his choices into eight sections. The book starts with some of the best-loved autobiographical pieces (for example, Gould's scientific attitude defines his fight with cancer; he illustrates problems in statistics through examples in his favorite sport, baseball). Subsequent essays offer insights and anecdotes about other scientists, and then represent key points in the evolutionary scientist's career. In the final sections, Gould focuses his laser eye on the blunders and misunderstandings when sociology, psychology, culture, and religion have interacted with and impinged upon one another. The informative and provocative essays on topics like racism, misogyny, and creationism (including "Darwin and the Munchkins of Kansas") are sure to spark discussion. Readers browsing this volume will be fascinated and inspired by the man's creativity-and swept away by the surprising and often humorous tactics he employs to draw them in. Though his many other books are likely to stay in print, this anthology presents, with a Gould-like liveliness and breadth of perspective, a taste of his entire lifetime of insight. For collections that have room for only one volume of his writing, this is the essential one.-Christine C. Menefee, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Harvard professor and National Book Award winner Gould was one of science's best ambassadors to the general public until his death at 60 in 2002. These 44 essays represent his best-known pieces from his books and from essays for Natural History magazine, as well as never before published speeches. The editors have selected pieces on a wide range of subjects--from the ever-shrinking Hershey Bar, to his and Niles Eldredge's theory of punctuated evolution and Freud's adaptation of the (now abandoned) biological notion of recapitulation--which showcase Gould's immense curiosity as well as his skill at explaining even the most obscure topics with clear and vivid language. Autobiographical essays are followed by scientific ruminations on evolutionary theory and how it has been understood, misunderstood and misused, ever since Darwin put pen to paper. This collection demonstrates Gould's passion for life as well as his enthusiasm for, and awe at, the "majesty" of "the continuity of the tree of life for 3.5 billion years." Gould's many fans, as well as new readers, should find this collection intriguing as well as entertaining, an eminently suitable last hurrah for an amazing thinker. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
目录
List of Figures | p. ix |
Foreword | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Part I Autobiography | p. 11 |
I Have Landed | p. 15 |
The Median Isn't the Message | p. 26 |
The Streak of Streaks | p. 32 |
Seventh Inning Stretch: Baseball, Father, and Me | p. 41 |
Trouble in Our Own House: A Brief Legal Survey from Scopes to Scalia | p. 49 |
Of Two Minds and One Nature | p. 59 |
Part II Biographies | p. 65 |
Thomas Burnet's Battleground of Time | p. 71 |
The Lying Stones of Marrakech | p. 85 |
The Stinkstones of Oeningen | p. 103 |
The Razumovsky Duet | p. 114 |
The Power of Narrative | p. 127 |
Not Necessarily a Wing | p. 143 |
Worm for a Century, and All Seasons | p. 155 |
The Darwinian Gentleman at Marx's Funeral: Resolving Evolution's Oddest Coupling | p. 166 |
The Piltdown Conspiracy | p. 182 |
Part III Evolutionary Theory | p. 205 |
The Evolution of Life on Earth | p. 209 |
Challenges to Neo-Darwinism and Their Meaning for a Revised View of Human Consciousness | p. 222 |
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory: Revising the Three Central Features of Darwinian Logic | p. 238 |
The Episodic Nature of Evolutionary Change | p. 261 |
Betting on Chance-and No Fair Peeking | p. 267 |
The Power of the Modal Bacter, or Why the Tail Can't Wag the Dog | p. 278 |
The Great Dying | p. 286 |
The Validation of Continental Drift | p. 290 |
Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars | p. 297 |
Part IV Size, Form, and Shape | p. 303 |
Opus 100 | p. 307 |
Size and Shape | p. 319 |
How the Zebra Gets Its Stripes | p. 324 |
Size and Scaling in Human Evolution | p. 333 |
Part V Stages and Sequences | p. 359 |
The Ladder and the Cone: Iconographies of Progress | p. 362 |
Up Against a Wall | p. 376 |
Part VI Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology | p. 391 |
Pervasive Influence | p. 395 |
The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Program | p. 423 |
More Things in Heaven and Earth | p. 444 |
Posture Maketh the Man | p. 467 |
Freud's Evolutionary Fantasy | p. 473 |
Part VII Racism, Scientific and Otherwise | p. 487 |
Measuring Heads: Paul Broca and the Heyday of Craniology | p. 490 |
The Most Unkindest Cut of All | p. 534 |
A Tale of Two Work Sites | p. 546 |
Carrie Buck's Daughter | p. 564 |
Just in the Middle | p. 574 |
Part VIII Religion | p. 587 |
Non-overlapping Magisteria | p. 590 |
The Diet of Worms and the Defenestration of Prague | p. 604 |
Darwin and the Munchkins of Kansas | p. 616 |
Hooking Leviathan by Its Past | p. 615 |
Sources and Acknowledgments | p. 636 |
Index | p. 641 |